LXXVI REPORT OF COMMISSIONER OF FISH AND FISHERIES. 



ing been conducted during the previous year on tlie hatching barges, as 

 heretofore, with the exception that they were moored in the pool above 

 referred to instead of occupying the location in Spesutie Narrows. 



Duriug the i^resent year a spacious two-story hatching house, about 

 20 by 60 feet, has been erected. A section of 20 feet of this contains 

 the eugine, boiler, and water-tank. The remainder of the first floor of 

 the building is devoted to the hatching apparatus, and as its capacity 

 is many millions of eggs it is hardly probable that the floatiug appara- 

 tus will be needed at this station hereafter. 



The second story of this building furnishes comfortable accommoda- 

 tions for from sixteen to twenty men, and has ])eeu provided with steam 

 heating apparatus, the steam being furnished from the same boiler which 

 does the pumping and seine hauling. 



During the summer and fall considerable work has been done to- 

 ward the construction of an apron for landing the seine. This impor- 

 tant work, however, had to be intermitted on account of the ice, but 

 sufficient has been done to insure its completion in the early spring — in 

 time to be available for the fishing during the coming season. 



The northern pier has been considerably extended and strengthened 

 during the present year by the force under the direction of Colonel 

 Craighill. This work is important as this pier, as extended, forms, with 

 that already constructed, an outer harbor protected from the ice as well 

 as from the westerly and northerly winds, while the island makes a lee 

 from all easterly winds and the original or southern pier gives thorough 

 protection from those from the south, making a safe mooring for the 

 small boats of the Commission outside of the pool. The pool can here- 

 after be devoted exclusively to the reception and care of the fish taken 

 in the seine. 



North East River (Md.,) Station. — After the shad Avork in the Potomac 

 was over the Fish Hawk was moved to Havre de Grace and continued 

 its work in hatching, shad. The first eggs were taken May 23 and the 

 work continued until June 12, a total of 2,551,000 eggs having been 

 secured from 191 shad. There were hatched 1,765,000 fish, of which 

 1,555,000 were returned to the North East Eiver and 210,000 furnished 

 for shipment. About 25,000 eggs which remained on hand June 12 

 were turned over to Battery Station. 



In previous reports accounts have been given of the work prosecuted 

 by the United States Fish Commission at Aveca, N. C, the fishing sta- 

 tion of Doctor Capehart, near the mouth of the Chowan Eiver. This 

 station was not occupied during the season of 1882, but the work tliere 

 was prosecuted by the North Carolina Commission, under the direction 

 of Mr. S. G. Worth. The total number of fish hatched was 2,260,000, 

 which were planted in the principal rivers of the State. 



