REPORT OF COMMISSIONER OF FISH AND FISHERIES. 



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111 September spawning outfits were sent to Thunder Bay and Middle 

 Islands, and other arrangements were made for collecting shoal-trout 

 eggs for the United States Fish Commission exhibit at the World's 

 Fair, but very few eggs were collected during the month. 



Early in October 90,000 shoal-trout eggs were received at the station, 

 54,000 of whieh were shipped by express to the World's Fair on the 

 6th, and 12,000 to the Northville Station by boat to Detroit on the 11th. 



Lake trout. — During the latter part of October 368,000 eggs of the lake 

 trout were received at the station, and 160,000 of these were shipped 

 to Northville. During November 1,316,000 eggs were received, and 

 these, with the 208,000 on hand at the end of October, were sent to 

 Northville, and 1,000,000 were taken direct from Charlevoix to North- 

 ville. All the lake-trout eggs sent from Alpena to Northville were from 

 fish taken in gill nets on the Big Beef in Lake Huron, near Alpena, 

 and from reefs in Lake Michigan near Charlevoix, Mich. 



Whitefish. — The first whitefish eggs, about 1,000,000, were received 

 on the 9th of November; 19,010,000 were received during the month. 

 The loss on these was 230,000. There were 6,590,000 eggs received in 

 December; there being in all at the station at the close of the month, 

 in fair condition, 24,320,000. Of these, a loss of 820,000 took place in 

 January, leaving 23,500,000 on hand, January 31, in first class condition. 



On the 17th of February 10,000,000 whitefish eggs were sent to 

 Duluth Station by car No. 1, and on the 24th of the same month 

 200,000 were shipped to B. E. Follet, fish commissioner, Sheffield, Mass. 

 The loss on eggs during February was 250,000; leaving 13,050,000 on 

 hand in flrst-class condition. There was no loss on the eggs on hand 

 at the station during March. 



The first fish hatched on the 6th of April and the last on the 30th. 



Deposits of whitefish fry were made as follows : 



Date. 



Points of deposit. 



Number of 



Apr. 16 

 18 

 24 

 25 

 26 

 27 



May 



Lake Huron, near East Tawas, Mich 



Whitefish Lake, near Corinne, Mich 



Lake Huron, north of Thunder Lay Island 



Lake Huron, near Sturgeon Toint 



Lake Huron, near Miller Point 



Lake Huron, Detour Passage 



Lake Michigan, near Manistique, Mich 



Lake Michigan, near Charlevoix, Mich 



Lake Michigan, Epaulette and Nanbiuway 



Total 



000. 000 

 000, 000 

 050, 000 

 000,11110 

 000, 000 

 500. 000 

 000, 000 

 000, 000 

 500, 000 



13, 050, 000 



The maximum and minimum temperatures of the water at the station 

 for the months given were as follows : 



Month. 



November, 1893 

 December, 1893 

 January, 1894 . 

 Eebrua'ry, 1894 



Month. 



March, 1894 



April, 1894 



May, 1893. to the 19th 



Max. 



o jj\ 

 37 

 18 

 54 



°E. 



