CONTENTS. VII 



10. General considerations — Continued. Pa.i;c. 

 Principle of making selections *21 



Applications to bo made tlirougli members of Congress 21 



Increase in demand from foreign coiuitriea 21 



Princpal nations making application 22 



Application other than for eggs or fish 22 



The general co-operation by State commissions 22 



Por assistance in working the Clackamas establishment 22 



By foreign commissioners and fishery authorities 22 



From Germany for models of hatching apparatus 23 



From Japan for a similar purpose 23 



From Cliili and Ecuador for general information concerning fishes 23 



From Biitish Columbia in regard to the utilization of salmon refuse 23 



From Jfew Brunswick in regard to the canning of lobsters 23 



Fishes not compi-ehended in the plans of the Commission. Trout and black bass 23 



General enumeration of fish treated by the United States commission 24 



11. Facilities and assistance hexdeked to the United States Fish Coidiissiox 24 



By government departments 24 



The Xavy and Ai-my 24 



By State fish commissions 24 



By railroad companies 24 



By exi>ress comi^anies 20 



By steamship companies 20 



By individuals 20 



12. Legislation and pkotection of the fisheries 20 



Antagonism between prosecutors of different methods of fishing 20 



Absence of legisl ation on part of the general government 20 



The Washingiton Treaty as afiecting the rights of fishermen 27 



Objections to modes of fishing 27 



Appeal against trawling by inhabitants of Block Island 27 



Belation of the States to fishery interests 27 



Establishment of close time 27 



Removal or palliation of obstructions 28 



Fish-baskets especially injurious 2S 



Limitations as to size of fish sold 28 



13. TTOKK ACCOMl'LISHED XX 1877 29 



The shad 29 



The Susquehanna station 29 



Keasons for temporary discontinuance of more southern stations 29 



Concentration on work in Susquehanna and Connecticut 29 



Defects of floating boxes 29 



Improved apparatus of T. B. Ferguson 30 



Experiments with this apparatus 30 



Work done on the Susquehanna 30 



The Connecticut station 31 



Transfer of apparatus to South Hadley Falls 31 



Co-operation of Massachusetts commissions 31 



Floating boxes nsed. 31 



Microscopical investigations of U. J. Kice 31 



Experiments at "Windsor Locks 31 



Bcfereuee to Mr. Milner's report 31 



The Pacific i^alniou 31 



The Clackamas station 31 



Alarm of canners at decrease of salmon in the Columbia River 31 



Dispatch of Mr. Stone- to organize a station at expense of Oregon and Washington 



Fish Propagation Company 32 



Difficulties in selection of site 32 



Reasons for choosing Clackamas River 32 



Work required to get the station in running order 32 



Results accomijlished 32 



The McCloud River station 33 



As.sistance iu keeping order rendered by the Army 33 



Interference of illegal fishing with the results 33 



Dates of taking fish 33 



