﻿REPORT 
  OF 
  COMMISSIONER 
  OF 
  FISH 
  AND 
  FISHERIES, 
  XLVII 
  

  

  The 
  following 
  table 
  shows 
  the 
  receipts 
  of 
  shad 
  from 
  the 
  Potomac 
  

   Eiver, 
  at 
  Washington, 
  D. 
  C, 
  by 
  weeks 
  during 
  the 
  season, 
  from 
  1887 
  to 
  

   1897. 
  The 
  data 
  were 
  furnished 
  by 
  Mr. 
  Gwynn 
  Harris, 
  inspector 
  of 
  

   marine 
  products: 
  

  

  Central 
  Station, 
  Washington, 
  D. 
  C. 
  (S. 
  G. 
  Worth, 
  Superintendent). 
  

  

  During 
  the 
  summer 
  the 
  superintendent 
  was 
  detailed 
  to 
  make 
  an 
  

   investigation 
  in 
  the 
  neighborhood 
  of 
  Weldon, 
  N. 
  0,, 
  with 
  the 
  view 
  to 
  

   determining 
  the 
  extent 
  to 
  which 
  the 
  river 
  shrimp, 
  Palcmionetes 
  exiUpes, 
  

   enters 
  into 
  the 
  food 
  of 
  the 
  bass 
  and 
  crai)pie, 
  and 
  to 
  arrange 
  for 
  the 
  

   extension 
  of 
  its 
  geograjihical 
  range 
  as 
  a 
  natural 
  food 
  for 
  trout 
  and 
  

   other 
  edible 
  fishes. 
  They 
  were 
  found 
  in 
  many 
  of 
  the 
  ponds 
  and 
  streams 
  

   of 
  Halifax 
  and 
  JSTortharaptou 
  counties, 
  aud 
  shipments 
  were 
  sent 
  to 
  

   Washington, 
  D. 
  C, 
  WythevUle, 
  Va., 
  and 
  i^eosho, 
  Mo. 
  It 
  was 
  learned 
  

   that 
  they 
  form 
  an 
  important 
  part 
  of 
  the 
  natural 
  food 
  of 
  bass, 
  crappie, 
  

   and 
  other 
  predaceous 
  fishes, 
  and 
  that 
  they 
  can 
  be 
  successfully 
  shipped 
  

   in 
  pails 
  of 
  water 
  by 
  express 
  for 
  distances 
  requiring 
  not 
  over 
  seven 
  hours 
  

   time. 
  Part 
  of 
  the 
  consignment 
  sent 
  to 
  Washington 
  were 
  put 
  in 
  a 
  trout 
  

   stream 
  near 
  Leesburg, 
  Va. 
  An 
  examination 
  of 
  the 
  pond 
  in 
  Washington 
  

   during 
  the 
  month 
  of 
  May 
  showed 
  the 
  presence 
  of 
  egg-bearing 
  shrimp. 
  

  

  As 
  in 
  former 
  years, 
  the 
  fish-cultural 
  work 
  included 
  the 
  distribution 
  

   of 
  the 
  year's 
  production 
  of 
  fish 
  from 
  the 
  Fish 
  Commission 
  ponds, 
  the 
  

   hatching 
  of 
  shad 
  eggs 
  collected 
  on 
  the 
  Potomac 
  Eiver, 
  and 
  of 
  a 
  few 
  eggs 
  

   of 
  the 
  quilinat 
  salmon, 
  brook, 
  rainbow, 
  Loch 
  Leveu, 
  and 
  lake 
  fronts, 
  

   which 
  had 
  been 
  transferred 
  from 
  other 
  stations 
  during 
  the 
  winter 
  for 
  

   the 
  purpose 
  of 
  illustrating 
  fish-cultural 
  methods. 
  

  

  