XXIV REPORT OF COMMISSIONER OF FISH AND FISHERIES. 



2. — PRINCIPAL STATIONS OF THE UNITED STATES FISH COMMISSION. 



The stations of the Commission enumerated in the last report were, 



for tbe most part, occupied during the past year. It may, however, be 



well to enumerate them again. Classifying them as before, the list is 



as follows: 



A. — Investigation and Research. 



1. Gloucester, Mass. — Capt. S. J. Martin, in charge of this station, 

 continues his weekly reports of the products of the offshore fisheries 

 of that city, which have been collated and published from time to time 

 in the bulletins of the Fish Commission. 



Cai>tain Martin visits every vessel on its arrival, and obtains the 

 statistics of the catch during the voyage ; and as there is no other 

 organization for obtaining these data his figures are largely used in the 

 market reports of the Boston and Gloucester papers. 



Ever since the establishment of the Fish Commission station at 

 Gloucester in 1878, the Commission has kept an ofiice on Fort Point 

 wharf for the collection of facts and specimens, and for constituting a 

 convenient medium of communication between Captain Martin, the 

 agent of the Commission, and the fishermen generally. 



Some question having arisen as to the lease, the quarters in question 

 were given up, and the work has since been j)erformed by Captain Mar- 

 tin without any special headquarters. 



2. Wood^s Holl, 3Iass. — This continues to be the chief summer locality 

 for investigation and research and the summer station of the vessels of 

 the Commission. 



The arrangements made for enlarging the work at this point will be 

 more fully detailed hereafter. 



3. Saint Jerome, Md. — This station is maintained for experiments in 

 oyster culture, and the hatching of marine fish, especially of the Spanish 

 mackerel. It was first established by Maj. T. B. Ferguson, as a com- 

 missioner of Maryland, but after a time was operated jointly by the 

 Maryland and United States Commissions. On the 24th of April, 1882, 

 however, it was formally transferred to the United States Commission, 

 and the liabilities of the lease from Mr. John W. Wrightson assumed. 

 All the property of the Maryland commission was purchased at a fair 

 valuation. 



B. — PROrAGATION OF SaLMONID^. 



4. Grand Lake Stream, Me. — The propagation of the land-locked 

 salmon is carried on here on a large scale under the direction of Mr. 

 Charles G. Atkins. 



5. Bucksport, Me. — The work of this station is primarily connected 

 with the multiplication of Penobscot salmon, although 1,000,000 eggs 

 of the whitefish sent from Northville, Mich., were hatched here and 

 placed in Eagle Lake, on Mount Desert, at the request of Mr. Mont- 

 gomery Sears. 



6. Northville, Mich. — This establishment is principally concerned in 



