XXVlll REPORT OF COMMISSIONER OF FISH AND FISHERIES. 



was taken of an adjacent fisliery belonging to Messrs. Kniglit & Gibson to 

 secure the spawning fish. Here about 1,400,000 young shad were placed 

 in the river, increasing the supply to that amount. It was now for the 

 first time possible to make a transfer of fish to the West; and having 

 placed Mr. Milner, an assistant of the commission, in charge of this 

 branch of the work, he succeeded, with the assistance of Mr. Welsh er, 

 in introducing about 70,000 fry into the headwaters of the Kanawha 

 Eiver on tlie 0th and 9th days of June. A supply was also furnished to 

 Mr. X. W. Clark for the Michigan commissioners. 



The season having closed at this point in consequence of the heat of 

 tlie water, and the fact that the spaM'u taken from the fish invariably 

 failed to develop, two new stations were established; one under INIr. 

 Welsher, at Marietta, in Pennsylvania, and the other under Mr. Holton 

 and C. K. Green, at Bull's Island Ferry, on the Delaware. The business 

 arrangements of this branch of the work were placed in charge of Dr.. 

 J. H. Slack, who, as fish commissioner of New Jersey, had certain privi- 

 leges in regard to the capture of the shad, which were important to the 

 success of the enterprise. The fish hatched at this i)oint were prin- 

 cipally placed in the Delaware Eiver, although 15,000 were transferred 

 by Dr. Slack to Jack's Run, at Greensburgh, for the purpose of stocking 

 the Monongahela. 



About the time of the starting the camp at Marietta, the Pennsylvania 

 commissioners began another at Newport on the Juniata, where a con- 

 siderable number of fish were hatched and placed in the river. 



The operations on the Delaware were closed in July, mainly in con- 

 sequence of certain obstructions introduced by the canal company above 

 the hatching-camp, and the regular parties proceeded to the camp on the 

 Hudson, at Castleton, where the New York commissioners have a 

 station, and where a considerable suj^jjly of spawn was to be expected. 

 Here the hatching was prosecuted entirely at the expense of the State 

 of New York; her fish commissioners, however, very kindly giving the 

 United States such spawn as was required for its purposes. Mr. Mdner 

 assisted by Mr. Mason was actively engaged for several weeks in trans- 

 ferring young shad from Castleton to various points in the West, becom- 

 ing so well skilled as to involve a very slight mortality. 



At the same time Mr. Livingston Stone, in behalf of the United States 

 Fish Commission, received 80,000 fish from the establishment of the 

 New York commissioners, none of which reached their destination ; the 

 attendant who carried them through to Chicago, where they were to 

 meet the aquarium-car, failiug to success in keep theui alive during their 

 journey. 



The attempt to transfer valuable food-fishes from the Atlantic slope to 

 the Pacific slojie in the so called aquarium-car, as well as the unfortunate 

 accident by which the car was precipitated from a trestle-work into the 

 Elkhorn River of Nebraska not far from Omaha, have become widely 

 known through the newspapers. The enterprise was a joint affair 



