XVI REPORT OF COMMISSIONER OF FISH AND FISHERIES. 



gusoD, as Commissioner of Fisheries for the State of Maryland, for the 

 purpose of conducting experiments in regard to the artificial propa- 

 gation of oysters, «&c. This year the United States Commissioner 

 joined with the Maryland Commissioner, and tlie operations were under 

 their general auspices, but under the special direction of Mr. Ferguson. 



B.-- -Propagation of Salmonid^. 



4. Grand Lake Stream on the iSchoodic Lakes. — The station at this place, 

 situated not very far from Calais, Me., was inaugurated in 1875, and 

 has proved very successful in famishing a supply of the eggs of the 

 land-locked salmon. 



5. Bucksport, Me. — This station, located near Bucksport, and adjacent 

 to the mouth of the Penobscot River, has been in operation since 1871 

 for the taking and hatching of eggs of the Penobscot or Atlantic salmon, 

 under the direction of Mr. Charles G. Atkins. 



6. Northville. — A fish-hatching station was established at Northville, 

 in 1868, by the late Mr. N. W. Clark. Since 1874 the United States 

 Fish Commission has made use of it, and since 1880 has held it under 

 lease. At this station whitefish, lake trout, brook trout, California 

 trout, »&c., are hatched. 



7. McCloud River Salmon Station. — This station, not far from Mount 

 Shasta, and on a tributary of Pitt River, one of the principal branches 

 of the Sacramento, has been in successful operation since 1872, and has 

 turned out 70,000,000 eggs, largely increasing the local supply of the 

 Sacramento River, as well as furnishing eggs for shipment to the East, 

 and to foreign countries. 



8. McCloud River Trout Station. — This is located a few miles from the 

 salmon station, and was established in 1879 for the taking of eggs of 

 the California mountain trout. 



C. — Propagation of Shad. 



9. Battery Island. — Work at this station, near Havre de Grace, Md., 

 was carried on from May 15 to June 13, under the direction of Mr. 

 Frank N. Clark, for the taking and hatching of eggs of the shad, and 

 for conducting some important experiments connected with the retarda- 

 tion of the development of the eggs. 



10. North Bast River, Maryland. — This station, a few miles from 

 Battery Island, near the mouth of the Susquehanna, was operated from 

 May 5 to June 5, inclusive, by the steamer Fish Hawk, for taking and 

 hatching the eggs of shad, this vessel having been transferred from 

 Avoca upon the completion of the season there. 



11. Central Station. — The Centennial exhibits, which had been stored 

 in the Armory building in Washington for several years, were this year 

 in part removed to the new Museum building, and by authority of Con- 

 gress the space thus vacated was fitted up as a central hatching and 

 distributing station. It is abundantly supplied with water, and from 



