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REPORT OF COMMISSIONER OF FISH AND FISHERIES. 



per minute. There is another spring on the Government property 

 between the hatchery and Kocky Pond which shouhl be excavated and 

 put iu condition. The temperature of this is 4C^°, and by mingling it 

 with the water from the flume it would undoubtedly suffice for rearing 

 a large quantity of brook trout. 



Folknving is the list of fish and fry on hand June 30, 1S95: 



Ckaig Brook Station (Charle,? G. Atkins, Superintendent). 

 The fiscal year opened with the following stock on hand: 



Atlantic salmon. — Of 174 Atlantic salmon collected at Penobscot Sta- 

 tion iu May and June, 1894, 143 remained alive in the inclosure at 

 Dead Brook on July 1, but by October the number had been reduced 

 to 71, 3S of which were females. These salmon were purchased con- 

 jointly with the State of Maine, and of the 415,350 good eggs obtained 

 from them the United States Commission received 220,350 as its share, 

 and the State 189,000. Twenty thousand of those belonging to the 

 United States Commission were shipped to the New York Commission 

 at Cold S])ring Harbor, and the balance were retained at the station 

 for hatching and rearing. The eggs commenced to hatcli in March and 

 finished in April, yielding 205,994 fry, of which 170,954 survived at the 

 close of the fiscal year. 



The 11 salmon hatched in 1888, and confined iu small ponds over six 

 years, died during the summer. These were the parents of the three 

 broods of domesticated salmon which were hatched in tlie years 1892, 

 1893, and 1894, respectively. There were 2,15y of them in all at the 

 beginning of the year, but the number was greatly reduced by two 

 attacks of disease, one occurring in the summer of 1894 and the other 

 in May, 1895. The survivors (991) appear to be healthy and vigorous 

 and will bo suflicient for the puri)()se of artificial landlocking. Xone 

 of tliem are old enough as yet to yield eggs. 



