REPORT OF COMMISSIONER OF FISH AND FISHERIES. 



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STATION OPERATIONS. 



The number of active stations was the same as during the last fiscal 

 year. The World's Fair having been made a temporary base of opera- 

 tions, offset the closed landlocked salmon station on Grand Lake 

 Stream, Maine. A new station, located at St. Johnsbury, Vt., was 

 nearly completed at the time of closing this report. Mr. John W. Tit- 

 comb was appointed inspector of construction September 1, 1S93, and 

 superintendent March 1, 1894. This is intended as a hatching and 

 rearing station for landlocked salmon and various kinds of trout, Its 

 water supply is obtained from Sleeper River and from springs. 



The following is a list of stations: 



Craig Brook Station, Me. 



Green Lake Station, Me. 



Gloucester Station, Mass. 



Woods Hole Station, Mass. 



Delaware River Station (steamer Fish 



Hawk). 

 Battery Island Station. Md. 

 Bryan Point Station, Md. 

 Central Station, Washington, D. C. 

 Fish Ponds, Washington, D. C. 

 Wytheville Station, Va. 



Put in Bay Station, Ohio. 



Northville Station, Mich. 



Alpena Station, Mich. 



Duluth Station, Minn. 



Quincy Station, 111. 



World's Fair Station, Chicago, 111. 



Neosho Station, Mo. 



Leadville Station, Colo. 



Baird Station, Cal. 



Fort Gaston Station, Cal. 



Clackamas Station, Oreg. 



Craig Brook Station, Maine (Charles G. Atkins, Superintendent). 

 The fish on hand at the station, July 1, 1893, were as follows : 



The Atlantic salmon were fed through the summer in troughs on 

 chopped liver and other meat and on maggots. In November it was 

 fouud that 234,307 of them had survived. Of these, 231,367 were lib- 

 erated in local waters, 2,000 were transferred to other parties, and 1,000 

 were reserved for wintering. Of the fish wintered over, 867 were alive 

 June 30, 1891. 



Eggs of the Atlantic salmon were collected at the Penobscot Station 

 in May and June, 1893, with the cooperation of the State of Maine. 

 From 116 fish— 51 males and 95 females— 806,000 eggs were obtained. 

 On March 1, 1894, after the ordinary losses and the rejection of the 



