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cutter Thomas Ewiiic: arrived with instrnctions to take one of the barges 

 and a steam-launcli to ^a^Te de Grace. Captain Fengar, however, oblig- 

 ingly consented to take two barges instead of one. The wind rising to a 

 gale he put ofl' starting until the next morning ; but at an early hour on 

 the 5th the cutter got under way with the two barges and one launch in 

 tow; the remaining barge was taken into the dock and tied in one of 

 the slips at tlie navy-yard. 



On the 7tli tlie steam-lannch of the Franklin was sent alongside, Mr. 

 Kullman, a machinist from the steamer, coming with it to act as engi- 

 neer; on the evening of this day 1 came on to Washington, leaving the 

 two barges and the steam-launch to be towed up to Havre de Grace on 

 the return of the revenue-cutter Ewing. On her second trip this steamer 

 left Norfolk on the 9th of May and took the remaining barges and the 

 launch in tow for Havre de Grace. Going up the bay they encountered 

 a strong wind and sea, and were for a time in considerable danger; at 

 about midnight the wind rose to quite a gale and the steamer ran into 

 the Great Wicomico Eiver for harbor; the launch, however, j^arted her 

 hawsers and went adrift ; as it was impracticable to turn around with 

 the two scows, she had to drift along until they were anchored, when 

 the steamer went out and found her after some search and took her into 

 the harbor. 



B.— STATION NEAR HAVRE DE GRACE, MARYLAND. 



The barges arrived on the 11th of May at Havre de Grace. I had 

 been for twenty -four hours awaiting them. They were anchored in the 

 Narrows in about the same place they were last year. 



As we were well supplied with steam-launches and facilities for ob- 

 taining spawn from the different seines and nets, I concluded that 

 the steamer Lookout could be best utilized by being sent to the Poto- 

 mac to work tlie fisheries of that river, as she possessed considerable 

 capacity in the cones on her forward deck for the care of eggs. Caj)tain 

 Chester accordingly left with the Lookout on the morning of the 15th 

 of May. 



The first eggs were taken on the 17th of May, tlie number being 

 25,000; the total number from that day until the 11th of June obtained 

 at this station was 12,730,000. The greatest number gathered in one 

 day was ] ,940,000, on the 29th of May, from 97 spawners. On the 27th 

 65 good spawners, and on the 28th 71 were taken, this period seeming 

 to be the climax of the spawning season. 



The first shipment to a distant stream was made on the 15th of May — 

 150,000 shad — to the Tombigbee River in Mississippi. The total number 

 shipped to other States from this point was 2,535,000 ; the number put 

 in at this station and in immediate waters, 5,105,000; and the number 

 put in other streams of Maryland and in the Potomac Ri^■er, 1,705,000, 

 making a total of 9,345,000 fishes. 



Mr. Thomas Hughlett, of Easton, Md., State Commissioner of Fish- 



