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RKPORT OF ro:\I]\IIS>;iOXER OF FISH AND FISHERIES. 



take of ojiji's was i;>4,r)(>(),()()0, wliicli wovo ohtaiiiod IVoiii tlio tollowinji' 

 grounds: 



Toledo 1 L'. 400. 000 



Port Clinton 11, 200, 000 



East Sister Island 22, 400, 000 



l?ass Island 58, 560, 000 



Of tliese, 15,(K)0,00() -were delivered on A])ril 27 to tlie agent of the 

 Pennsylvania Fish Commission for its Erie liatcliery; 17,(!()(),0(H) were 

 transferred at Toledo to U. S. Fish Commission car No. 3 and taken to 

 Louisville, Ky., where they were hatched, the fry being estimated at 

 1(>,0()0,()00 and placed in Kentucky waters. The remaining eggs w^ere 

 lield and hatched at the station, jiroducing 40,000,000 fry, of which 

 12,000.000 Avere planted in Lake Erie and the balance mainlj^ in the 

 waters of Michigan, Ohio, and Indiana, the period of distribution being 

 from May 13 to 25. 



Lake herring. — Experiments were made in the jn'opagation of the 

 lake herring, 1,500,000 eggs of this species being obtained. Tlieeggs 

 are non-adhesive, and average about 75,000 to the (piart. They can be 

 impregnated and handled as readily as those of the w^hitefish, with 

 which they were simultaneously hatched, a good percentage of fry 

 being produced. Further attention to the propagation of this species 

 will be given the next season. 



TahU of water temperaiures {at 8 a. m.). 



Note.— From Dec. 27, 1891, to Mar. 27, 1892, the temperature remaim-il iiiiiforraly Sa'^ to3i°. 



