REPORT OF COMMISSIONER OF FISH AND FISHERIES. 27 



Shipments of cod eggs to the Woods Hole Station were as follows: 



Date. 



February 10 

 10 

 13 

 15 

 21 



Total . 



Number. 



1,110.000 

 413.000 



1, 150, 000 

 605, 0110 

 450, 000 



3, 827, 000 



Method. 



By messenger. 

 By repress. 



Do. 



Do. 



Do. 



On April 16, 18,000 haddock fry were planted, and 1,500 on May 14. 



Both haddock and cod eggs were taken March 21, and on April 7 the 

 two species hatched with a mean temperature of about 37° for the 17 

 hatching days. 



The entire number of codfish eggs collected during the season was 

 61,775,000, aud of these 24,617,000 were hatched and liberated. 



The lobster work was begun May 3, when 20 egg lobsters were 

 secured, from which 274,000 eggs were taken and placed in McDonald 

 hatching jars. The whole number of egg lobsters obtained in May was 

 293, and these produced 3,757,000 eggs, of which 3,380,000 were hatched 

 aud planted in the outer harbor oft* Gloucester. 



On May 18, Mr. Adams was detailed to work under the direction of 

 Mr. Eichard Rathbun, assistant in charge of the division of inquiry 

 respecting food-fishes, and the lobster work was continued with Mr. 

 W. P. Sauerhoff in charge. 



The collections of egg lobsters in June amounted to 482, and yielded 

 6,530,000 eggs ; from these, 5,953,000 young lobsters were liberated. 



The whole number of egg lobsters purchased during the season to 

 July 1 was 775; whole number of eggs taken from these, 10,287,000; 

 whole number of lobsters hatched from these, 9,332,000; percentage 

 hatched, 90.7. 



Woods Hole Station, Massachusetts (John Maxwell, Superintendent). 



The fish-cultural work covered a period of eight months — from 

 November to the end of July. 



Codfish.— Between February 9 and 20, 3,903,000 codfish eggs were 

 received from Kittery, Me., from which 1,254,000 fry were produced 

 and liberated in Vineyard Sound within twenty-four hours after hatch- 

 ing. The storage of brood cod was improved by placing live-boxes or 

 cars in the salt-water reservoir in the basement of the hatchery build- 

 ing, where exhaust steam from the pumps could be used if necessary to 

 heat the water in severe winter weather. 



Flatfish.— Between February 13 and March 26, 17 adult flatfish were 

 obtaiued by means of a fyke net set in Woods Hole Harbor. These 

 yielded 2,227,000 eggs, which produced 1,795,000 fry; and the latter 

 well deposited in Buzzards Bay and Vineyard Sound. Both the cod 

 and flatfish were hatched in McDonald boxes and Chester jars, operated 

 by tide motion. 



