REPORT OF COMMISSIONER OF FISH AND FISHERIES. XIX 



The following exhibits the disposition of reared fisli during the year: 



Kind. 



Atlantic salmon ... 



Do 



Do 



Do 



Landlocked salmon 



Do 



Do 



Do 



Do 



Do 



Do 



Do 



Do 



Do 



Brook trout 



Do 



Do 



Rainbow trout 



Von Belir trout . - . . 

 Swiss lake trout . . . 

 Loch Leven trout. . 



Do 



Do 



When 

 hatched. 



1891 

 1891 

 1891 



1890 

 1891 

 1891 

 1891 

 1890 

 1890 

 1889 

 1889 

 1888 

 1888 

 1888-89 

 1891 

 18i)l 

 1889 

 1889 

 1891 

 1890 

 1891 

 1891 

 1890 



"When liberated. Number, 



Oct. and Nov., 1891.. 

 Mar. and Apr., 1892. 

 Oct. and Nov., 1891. . 



Apr., 1892 

 Oct., 1891 

 Apr., 1892 

 ...do .... 

 ...do .... 

 ...do .... 

 ...do .... 

 ...do .... 



...do 



...do .... 

 ...do -.-- 

 Dec, 1891 

 Apr., 1892 



...do 



...do 



...do .... 



...do 



Oct., 1891 

 Dec, 1891 

 Apr., 1892 



158, 584 

 15, 552 

 80, 064 



?,2 



7,401 



5G:J 



1,499 



343 



29 



2 



14 



28 



9 



91 



1,352 



198 



127 



105 



098 



45 



6,002 



4,522 



411 



277,671 



Waters in which placed. 



Tributaries of Penobscot River. 



Do. 

 Tributaries of Penobscot River and 

 other waters, by Maine Fish Com- 

 mission. 

 Alamoosook Lake. 

 Toddy Pond, Orland, Me. 



Do. 

 Burnt Land Pond, Deer Isle. 

 Toddy Pond. 

 Craig Pond, Orland.. 



Do. 

 Toddy Pond, Orland. 

 Craiu; Pond, Orland. 

 Toddy Pond, Orland. 



'Do. 

 Craig Pond, Orland. 

 Alamoosook Lake, Orland. 

 Craig Pond, Orland. 

 Heart Pond, Orl«nd. 

 Toddy Pond, Orland. 

 'Do. 



Do. 



Do. 



Do, 



Atlantic salmon. — Adult salmon w^ere collected between June 1 and 

 8, 1891, and 267 safely confined in the inclosure at Dead Brook. For' 

 the first time in the history of the station, a steamer was employed in 

 collecting the fish, and the work was so facilitated as to permit of its 

 completion and the inclosing of the fish in eight days. The steamer 

 being able to make daily trips, the necessity of keeping the salmon in 

 the cars from day to day, as was usual in previous years, was avoided. 

 Whether from this cause, or from the coolness of the water at the time 

 of collection, but a single fish was lost in transit, and the loss in those 

 confined up to the spawning season was but 42. Of the 225 surviving 

 fish, 137 were females, which yielded 1,203,285 eggs. 



These eggs were placed in the hatchery between October 24 and 

 November 25. They, however, proved to be of inferior quality, and the 

 ratio of impregnation was lower than ever before at this station. To 

 February, 1S92, the time of division and shipment, the losses aggregated 

 331,835, of which probably not less than 250,000 were from lack of 

 impregnation. No clue as to the cause of the trouble was discovered. 

 The remaining eggs, 871,450, were divided between the United (States 

 and the Maine fish commissioners on the basis of their respective con- 

 tributions towards the payment for the adult fish, 550,000 being 

 assigned to the former and 321,450 to the latter. 



The Maine Commission subsequently presented to the United States 

 200,000 of the eggs allotted them, thus increasing the share of the 

 United States to 750,000. Of these eggs, 300,000 were assigned to the 

 Pennsylvania Fish Commission, 150,000 being sent to each of the 

 hatcheries at Corry and Allentown, and 150,000 to the New York Fish 

 Commission, which were sent to their hatchery at Cold Spring Harbor. 



