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PLANTING OF SALMON. 



With the exception of some quinnat, or chinook, salmon 

 planted in the Hudson ten or a dozen years ago by the 

 New York Fishery Commission, which have never been 

 heard from, I believe that all the plantings of S. salar in 

 the river have been done under my immediate supervision. 



In 1880, I suggested to the late Professor Spencer F. 

 Baird, then Commissioner of Fisheries, that the streams of 

 the upper Hudson had all the requisites for growing young 

 salmon, and he agreed with me that it might be possible 

 that the river had never been a salmon river because of the 

 natural obstructions to the ascent of the parent fish. On 

 January i6th, 1882, I was ordered to try to obtain a hatch- 

 ery near New York City, for the purpose of hatching sal- 

 mon for the Hudson, and secured one from Mr. Thomas 

 Clapham, at Roslyn, on the north side of Long Island, 

 about twenty-three miles from the city, and in the spring 

 planted 225,000 fry in the streams of Warren County, as well 

 as some in other waters (see Report United States Fish Com- 

 mission, 1882, page 2>'/6). In January 18S3, I was appointed 

 superintendent of the new hatching station of the New York 

 Fishery Commission at Cold Spring Harbor, Long Island, 

 and transferred the work of salmon hatching there, where it 

 has since been conducted. 



The following plants have been made in the tributaries of 

 the river : — 



FRY. 



1882 225,000 



1883 244,900 



I 884 424,700 



1885* 319,100 



1886 297,573 



1887 140,450 



1 888 440,000 



*Total 2,091,733 



* And 150 yearlings 



