406 REPORT OF COMMISSIONER OF FISH AND FISHERIES. 



I have liatched 7,500,000 this year, and have put 200,000 above the 

 Troy dam, in the Hudson; 50,000 in Oneida Lake, one of the tributaries 

 of Oswego River that empties into Lake Ontario; 70,000 in Lake Cham- 

 plain, which empties into tlie Saint Lawrence at Saint Ridges; and 

 50,000 in the Genesee River. The balance I placed in the Hudson. 



Last year I put 15,000 young shad in the Genesee River, and now I 

 can take at the mouth of the river, in Lake Ontario, twenty at a haul 

 with a twenty-rod seine. These are over 7 inches long now, and we 

 will see what we will see another year. I am very much interested in 

 these experiments. 

 Yours, 



SETH GREEX. 

 Prof. S. F. Baird, 



United States Commissioner of Fish and Fisheries. 



B— OPERATIONS IX 1873. 



1. — THE SAVANNAH, NEUSE, AND ROANOKE RIVERS. 



1873, April 20. — Arrived at Augusta, Ga. 



April 21. — Went up the Savannah prospecting. Prospects very poor. 

 Got back to Augusta at 4 p. m.; went down the river about four miles 

 to a fishery. Two boats fishing; each boat caught one male fish. 



Ajjril 22. — Went seven miles up the Savannah, from Augusta to Pit- 

 man's fishery; staid two days and two nights, and got iio ripe fish; 

 catching from three to eight fish a day. 



April 24. — Moved three miles down the river, from Pitman's fishery, 

 to Heckle's fishery; staid three days; caught no ripe shad; have not 

 seen two shad alive at one time since we have been on the Savannah; 

 shad selling for from 60 cents to $1.25 each in market. 



April 28. — Received a telegram to go to New Berne, N. C. 



April 29. — Arrived at New Berne, N. C. 



April 30. — Spent the day getting ready to go up the Neuse River. 



May 1. — Went up the Neuse fourteen miles above New Berne, to 

 Cowpen's landing, at Vaughn's fishery; fished with seine atnight; caught 

 ten shad, none ripe, several of them spawned out. 



3Iay 2. — Caught five shad, none ripe. Temperature of water, a m., 

 64°; p. m., 65°. 



May 3. — Caught eight shad, none ripe. Temperature of water, a. m., 

 68°; p. m., 67°. 



31ay 4. — Caught twelve shad with seine, none ripe. Fished with 

 skim-net along the shore; caught nine male shad. Temperature of 

 water, a. m., 66'^; p. m., 67°. 



May ii. — Fished with skim-net; caught eight fish, two ripe; 50,000 

 spawn. River rising. Temperature of water, a. ra., 62°; p. m., 05^. 



