REPORT OF COMMISSIONER OF FISH AND FISHERIES. *37 



The question, however, as to the precise origin of the fish sent by- 

 Mr. Eeeder and the others referred to by him is complicated by the 

 fact that in 1872 the Bureau of the German Fisherei-Verein made 

 arrangements for the presentation to the United States Government 

 of 250,000 eggs of the Rhine salmon, obtained at the imperial estab- 

 lishment at Hiiningen, and I purchased 500,000 in addition from Mr. 

 Schuster, of Freiburg. When these had been i>roperly brought forward 

 in the respective establishments of Hiiningen and Freiburg, they were 

 placed in charge of Mr. Eudolph Hessel, now the superintendent of 

 the United States carp ponds in Washington, and transferred to Kew 

 York. Owing to the unseasonable warmth of the winter and to the 

 absence of ice, these eggs could not be kept down to a sufdciently low 

 temperature, and on arriving at New York it was found that the greater 

 part had perished. The remainder were taken to the establishment of 

 Dr. J. H. Slack, at Bloom sbury, N. J., and by diligent care on the part of 

 Mr. Hessel about 5,000 were saved and hatched out. These were placed 

 in the Muscanetkong, a tributary of the Delaware, in the spring of 1873. 



According to Dr. Hudson, a salmon, weighing 18.^ pounds, was taken 

 in a gill-net near the mouth of the Connecticut on the 8th of June, 1876, 

 and sold in the Hartford market for the sum of $10. A few were also 

 seen in the summer of 1877. 



The results of the experiment were more satisfactory in the Merri- 

 mack Eiver than in either the Delaware or the Connecticut, as a consid- 

 erable number made their appearance at the Lawrence fishway early in 

 June, and at Manchester on the 13th of June. Quite ,a large number 

 in all were noted, and the commissioners of Massachusetts and New 

 Hampshire are determined to press the business of restocking the Mer- 

 rimack with great vigor. A full-grown salmon was seen at the Law- 

 rence fishway on the 3d of October, representing a later run during that 

 month. 



The Land-locked Salmon. 



Grand Lalce Stream Station, Maine. — The work of gathering and for- 

 warding the eggs of land-locked salmon, during the season of 1877-78, 

 was, as heretofore, in charge of Mr. Charles G. Atkins, at the establish- 

 ment on Grand Lake Stream, in Eastern Maine, the methods being sim- 

 ilar to those of previous years. A series of stakes and fine meshed nets 

 was set on the gravelly shoals below the dam of the outlet of Grand 

 Lake, enough to entrap the whole run of breeding-fish. The eggs were 

 brought forward in the old hatching-house at the spring on a little brook, 

 a tributary of Grand Lake Stream. 



The report of Mr. Atkins, as submitted in the Appendix, will explain 

 all the details connected with this work, illustrated by a diagram of the 

 grounds. 



As in previous years, the State commissioners of Massachusetts and 

 Connecticut co-operated with the Commissioner of the United States in 

 carrying on the work, the division of eggs being made pro rata. The 



