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man was employed at Noank, Conn., to collect egg-bearing lobsters 

 from the fishermen there and at Stonington. The work heretofore 

 done at Newport was discontinued because the commissioners of inland 

 fisheries for the State of Rhode Island were engaged in collecting at 

 that point, and arrangements were made to receive such eggs as the 

 State commission did not have use for. The receipts from these 

 sources were less than one-fourth of the number received last year, 

 but the receipts from Buzzards Bay and Vineyard Sound showed a 

 slight increase over the collections of the previous year, and the col- 

 lections from Connecticut waters showed a gain of over 900 per cent. 

 The total number of eggs received during the season was 20,-480,000, 

 a slight increase over the previous year. Of these 5,176,000 were 

 delivered to Mr. G. H. Sherwood, an assistant in the Division of Sci- 

 entific Inquiry, for experimental purposes, and from the remainder 

 12,857,000 fry were hatched. Of the fry 6,177,000 were delivered 

 to Mr. Sherwood for rearing purposes, 2,1:62,000 were shipped to the 

 Rhode Island Fish Commission, at Wickford, R. I., and the remainder 

 were planted in the waters of Connecticut and Massachusetts. 



During the year several collections of live fishes were made for the 

 Pan-American Exposition and also for the aquarium at Central Station, 

 Washington, D. C. 



The usual repairs necessary at such a station were made during the 

 season, as well as the necessary repairs to the vessels. 



Gloucester Station, Massachusetts (C. G. Corliss, Superintendent). 



During the summer months the station employees were occupied in 

 overhauling and fitting up the cod-hatching apparatus, making repairs 

 to the equipment and buildings, and also assisting in the construction 

 of the new coal-house. The old coal-house, being past repairs, was torn 

 down and a new one, 29 feet by 11 feet, with a capacity of 45 tons, 

 erected in its place. After the cod season closed a woodshed 12 feet 

 by 9 feet was built adjoining the coal-house, and all the station build- 

 ings were painted. 



Early in November preparations were made for collecting cod eggs 

 at Kittery Point, Me., and on November 15 Capt. E. E. Hahn, of 

 the schooner Grampus, and a force of 7 spawn-takers reported there 

 and at once began operations. The first eggs were taken and shipped 

 to the station November 17. Eggs were collected daily until November 

 21, when bad weather put a stop to egg-collecting until December 6. 

 Throughout December, January, and February the Ipswich Bay fish- 

 ing was very poor and irregular. Cod were scarce and many of the 

 boats were laid up for a week or two at a time, it often being difficult 

 to find boats for the spawn-takers. The results of the collections were 

 very disappointing, especially as the weather throughout the winter 

 was exceptionally mild and favorable for fishing. The last eggs were 

 taken March 20, and a few days later Captain Hahn and the Grmainis 



