REPORT OF COMMISSIONER OP FISH AND FISHERIES. Id 



Landloclced salmon. — From the station's brood stock, consisting of 

 remnants of tlie broods of 1888-89, wliich have been held in a very 

 small shallow jjond withont change of quarters for the past four years, 

 8,800 eggs were taken in October. As they were of poor quality, only 

 2,783 fry were hatclied from them, and of these but 1,34(3 remained at 

 the close of the fiscal year. Arrangements were also made for the 

 collection of eggs in Toddy Pond, it having first been stocked by the 

 United States Fish Commission in 1891. An attempt to take eggs 

 in that pond in 1892 resulted in the collection of only 4,200, but as 

 sportsmen had reported the taking of a large number of adult fish 

 there during the season 1893-94, it was believed that at least 100 

 spawners conld be secured. The results were disappointing, however, 

 as only 9 of the 40 salmon captured were females. The 12,000 eggs 

 taken were healthy and hatched out 11,887 fish, of which 9,807 remained 

 a,t the end of the year. 



Rainbow trout. — All of the rainbow trout except one died during the 

 year. The pond in which they were confined has a superficial area of 

 240 square feet, a maxinuim depth of about 2 feet, and is supplied with 

 water from the waste of the rearing-troughs. The largest of these 

 trout weighed 15| jjounds and measured 27^ inches in length, 8^- in 

 breadth, and 4J in thickness. Eight of the others weighed over 5 

 pounds each, and two over 10 pounds. In a larger pond they would 

 probably have lived longer and attained an even greater size. In Jan- 

 uary a consignment of 24,272 rainbow trout eggs was received from 

 the Wytheville Station. These produced 20,260 fry, of which 11,500 

 remained on hand at the close of the year. 



Swiss Lake trout. — A case of lake-trout eggs, said to contain 80,000, 

 was received from Switzerland in March. The package had been 

 delayed by some mischance, and the eggs arrived in such poor con- 

 dition that only 541 fry were hatched from them, and but 20 of them 

 were alive at the close of the year. 



BrooTc trout. — In October and November collections of brook trout 

 eggs were made from fish artificially reared at the station and from wild 

 fish at Craig Pond, the station fish yielding 8,500 eggs and the others 

 16,000. The collection at Craig Pond was in the nature of a reconnois- 

 sauce, the fish being taken on the -spawning beds by means of a trap 

 constructed with stakes and nets. Of 20 taken, only 13 were adults, 

 and 9 of these were females. In addition to the collections made at the 

 station a consignment of 49,480 eggs was received from the station at 

 Leadville, Colo., and 61,145 fry were hatched from these and the 

 station stock. The fry suffered severely during the months of May and 

 June, and there were only 39,331 on hand at the close of the year. 



The Atlantic salmon and trout were kept in troughs and fed as usual 

 on maggots and chopped beef until October, when 7,207 trout were 

 distributed to applicants in New England and 177,525 Atlantic salmon 

 were liberated in the tributaries of Penobscot Elver, in the vicinity of 

 the station. Of 10,000 wintered in the troughs, 9,020 were liberated in 

 the Penobscot in May, the balance being retained. 



