DISTRIBUTION OF FISH AND FISH EGGS, 1908. 



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increases over last year. The shad collections, while not conspicuous 

 numerically, were notably greater than in 1907, owing to the effect of 

 restrictive fishing laws in North Carolina, where the Bureau has a 

 hatching station. The number of lake trout, pike perch, and chinook 

 and Atlantic salmons was smaller than in the preceding year, but the 

 decrease was a normal one. 



Summary of Distribution of Fish and Eggs, Fiscal Year 1908. 



Species. 



Catfish 



Carp 



Buflaloflsh 



Shad 



Whitefish 



Lake Cisco 



Chinook salmon 



Silver salmon 



Blueback salmon 



Humpback salmon 



Steelhead trout 



Rainbow trout -. . . 



Atlantic salmon 



Landlocked salmon 



Blackspotted trout 



Loch Leven trout 



Lake trout 



Brook trout 



Sunapee trout 



Grayling 



Pike 



Crappie and strawberry bass. 



Rock bass 



Warmouth bass 



Small-mouth black bass 



Large-mouth black bass 



Bream or sunflsh 



Pike perch 



Yellow perch 



Striped bass 



White perch 



White bass 



Freshwater drum 



Cod 



Flatfish 



Pollock 



Tautog 



Lobster 



Total. 



Eggs. 



760,000 



139,266,000 



12,790,000 



68,385,5.50 



296,000 



75,000 



333,725 

 830,000 



190,000 

 768,380 



2,734,000 

 1,473,400 



200,000 



218,725,000 

 2,080,000 



5,740,000 

 '3,066,066 



457,647,055 



Fry. 



79,316,600 



384,480,000 



3,200,000 



24,998,185 



13,420,714 



69,S83,3a5 



7,ia5,748 



1,123,146 



253,650 



2,079,514 



441,281 



4,230,540 



25,267,078 



6,307,048 



191,736 



1,047,000 



232,312 

 23,900 



193,438,000 



382,576,000 



4,333,500 



321,670,000 



235,365,000 



389,642,000 



66,454,000 



794,000 



180,932,000 



2,398,886,257 



Fingerlings, 

 yearlings, 

 and adults. 



277,001 



350 



40,500 



2,231,797 

 57,932 



59,000 

 2,713,700 



30,003 



151,526 



1,442,376 



55,012 

 3,182,080 

 3,471,292 



17,550 

 200,268 



25,090 

 1,638 



78,940 

 588,047 

 202,810 



68,045 



500 

 ••26,000 



1,011 



14,922,968 



277,601 



350 



40,500 



80,076,600 



523,746,000 



15,990,000 



95, 615, .532 



13,774,646 



69,958,305 



7,185,748 



1,515,871 



3,797,250 



2,109,517 



782,807 



6,441,296 



.55,012 



31,183,158 



11,251,740 



191,736 



1,247,000 



17,550 



200,268 



25,090 



1,6.38 



311,252 



611,947 



202,810 



412,163,000 



384,724,045 



4,333,500 



327,410,000 



500 



26,000 



238,. 365, 000 



389,642,000 



66,454,000 



794,000 



180,933,011 



2,871,456,280 



WORK AND OUTPUT OF THE STATIONS. 



The following tabulation lists all of the stations operated by the 

 Bureau in 1908, and shows for each the period of operation, the kinds 

 of fishes handled, and the number of fish and eggs produced. It 

 shows also the character of the work in each locality and in some 

 degree the relative importance of the stations. The last statement 

 should be qualified, however, for particular instances. Some sub- 

 stations are more important in the actual fish-cultural work than are 

 the stations to which they are, for purposes of administration, sub- 

 ordinate ; but the output of these important substations is not always 

 shown separate from that of the main hatcheiy. Distinctions are 

 indicated to some extent in the table by means of a scheme of type. 

 All of the stations and all of the substations where eggs were hatched 



