REPORT OF COMMISSIONER OF FISH AND FISHERIES. *15 



Table of the niimher of yoiuuj fishes put into Geneva Lake, IVisconsin. 



Fishes. 



Brook-trout 



Salmoti-tront 



Laud-locked salmon , 



California salmon . . . 



"White-fish 



Wall-eyed pike. 



Total 



50, ono 



250, OOU 

 10, 000 



25, 000 



100, 000^ 

 *15,000) 



150, ono 



750, 000 



10, 000 



50, 000 I 



*15, OOOS 



750, 000 



1,500,000 



Total. 



200, one 



1, 000, 000 

 20, COO 



00, 000 



865, 000 

 1, 500, 000 



3, G75, 000 



* Furnished by the State of Wisconsin. 



For the better accomplishment of his object, Mr. Fairbank erected a 

 hatching-house, and provided it with an expert, and expects to enlarge, if 

 possible, his work in the ensuing year. 



In 1875, Ex-Governor Leland Stanford contributed $1,000 to meet the 

 expense of introducing 1,000,000 fry of the California salmon in the 

 Sacramento Eiver. 



Dr. Capehart, of Avoca, N. C, at the mouth of the Chowan, and Mr. 

 Wood, residing near the same place, expended about $050 in hatching 

 shad for the benefit of the fisheries of Albemarle Sound. 



Public acknowledgment is due to Mr. E. A. Brackett, one of the fish 

 commissioners of Massachusetts, who, through Mr. Frederick Curtis, 

 his attorney, formally presented to the United States Fish Commission 

 the free and perpetual use of the well-known Brackett hatching-box. 

 This apparatus is specially intended for the hatching of eggs of shad and 

 other fish, in running water, and under the same conditions and circum- 

 stances as that of Mr. Green, which it replaces very satisfactorily. An 

 illustration of this invention will be found on page 579 of the Keport 

 of the Fish Commission of 1872-73. 



Relations to foreign countries. — As properly befitting a national enter- 

 prise, the United States Fish Commission has maintained a hearty co- 

 operation with similar organizations abroad, and it is hoped with mutual 

 benefit. The Deutsche Fischerei-Verein of Germany is a very important 

 body, composed of some of the most prominent men of the nation, and 

 having under its supervision the collection of fishery statistics, the in- 

 vestigation of the fisheries, and the propagation of fish on the part of 

 the state. As might be expected from so enlightened an association, 

 the greatest interest has been manifested by it in improvements in fish 

 culture on the part of the United States, and at the request of Mr. Von 

 BehrSchmoldow, a member of the Verein, a set of American apparatus, 

 of full size or in working models, was prepared by direction of the United 

 States Commission, and transmitted to Berlin, where it excited much 

 attention. 



The result of an application to the United States Commissioner for 

 information and statistics has been made the subject of special meetings, 

 at which much reliable information was elicited. An account of these 



