58 REPORT OF COMMISSIONER OF FISH AND FISHERIES. 



Mich., but they were spoiled on the way because the temperature was 

 not kept low enough. 



Landlocked salmon. — On October 21, 1893, Mr. A. N. Cheney, of Glens 

 Falls, !N~. Y., suggested to the Commissioner the advantages to be 

 derived from plan ting landlocked salmon in Lake George, with the 

 object of stocking that body of water as well as the larger Lake Cham- 

 plain, into which it empties and in which the Commissioner desired to 

 introduce that species. Mr. Cheney's letter pointed out the superior 

 claims of Lake George as an experimental field, aud his plan was con- 

 sidered worthy to be carried out. 



Packing trout eggs for transportation. — Mr. W. F. Page, superintend- 

 ent of the Neosho Station, is in favor of using cut sponge as a packing- 

 material, because of its cleanliness, the rapidity with which it can be 

 worked, firmness and evenness of packing, and its economy in the long 

 run. It can be dried out and used almost indefinitely. One pound of 

 sponge will pack 15,000 rainbow-trout eggs. A pound of sponge, how- 

 ever, in Mr. Page's experience, requires the entire attention of one man 

 for ten hours to properly pick up. 



Lobster. — Capt. A. C. Adams was instructed to buy lobsters at a 

 price not exceeding 10 cents each for large ones and 5 cents each for 

 small ones, the lobsters to be liberated after removal of their eggs. Mr. 

 W. P. Sauerhoff was assigned to the lobster work at Gloucester May 

 16, relieving Captain Adams, and on the 23d he reported 191 females 

 which had furnished 2,473,000 eggs. 



At Woods Hole Station arrangements were made in the spring of 

 1894 to buy egg bearing female lobsters from lobster men at Cutty- 

 hunk, Menemsha Bight, Romans Land, and Woods Hole. About 3,300 

 pots are set in these localities. Off Nomans Land very large lobsters, 

 from 3 to 10 pounds in weight, are taken and the largest yield 30,000 

 eggs. The pots are hauled twice a week and the average catch is about 

 2,400 pounds at a haul, two-thirds of which are egg-bearing females. 



FISH ENEMIES, DISEASES, AND FATALITIES. 



Otter. — February 6, 1894, Mr. E. M. Robinson at Green Lake Station, 

 reported the capture of an otter measuring 5 feet 6 inches, in two traps. 

 He had eaten many trout before his capture. On February 24 the 

 capture of another otter and one mink was reported. 



Larvae of caddis and black flies. 1 — In the spring of 1894 the superin- 



■See also the following articles by tho late Prof. C. V. Riley: 



The death web of young trout. < Am. Ent. aud Bot., Apr., 1870, v. 2, p. 174. Riley. 



Supposed trout enemy. <Am. Ent. and Bot., Apr., 1870, v. 2, pp. 179-180. Riley. 



The death web of youug trout. <Amer. Ent. aud Bot., May, 1870, v. 2, p. 211. 

 Larva; of a Simulium. Riley. 



The death web of youug trout. <Amer. Ent. and Bot., June, 1870, v. 2, pp. 227-228, 

 figs. 143-144. Habits of Simulium piscicidium. Riley. 



The so-called web worm of young trout. <Amer. Ent. and Bot., Dec, 1870, v. 2, 

 pp. 366-367. Riley. Description of Simulium piscicidium, n. sp. 



Remarks on Simulium piscicidium. <Trans. Acad. Sci. St. Louis, July, 1873, v. 3, 

 p. 79 Proc. Nature and supposed ravages. Riley. 



Carnivorous habits of caddis worms. <Amer. Ent., July, 1880 (v. 3), n. s., v. 1, 

 p. 176. Riley. 



