IG* REPORT OF COMMISSIONER OF FISH AND FISHERIES. 



proceedings, translated from the circulars of the Verein, will be found in 

 the Appendix. 



Mr. K. Eckhardt, proprietor of the fish establishment of Lubbincheu, 

 near Giiben, Silesia, presented 1,000 eggs of the " Madiie Maroeua," a 

 white-fish [Coregonns marama, Bloch). This species is said to be found 

 only in a few lakes in i^rovinces of Pomerania, Brandenbnrg, and Hol- 

 steiu, of which the Madiie Lake is the most important. The eggs were 

 shipped by the Bremen steamer the end of January, 1877, and on ar- 

 rival were repacked and transmitted to Mr. Oren M. Chase, the director 

 of the Michigan State Hatching-House at Detroit. The fish appeared 

 in the latter part of March, and 409 of them were successfully placed in 

 a deep lake in Otsego County, Michigan, known as Gardner's Lake, 

 where no white fishes had been previously introduced, and which was 

 believed to contain no predaceous species. The result of this experiment 

 of introducing a European food-fish will be looked forward to with great 

 interest. 



Japan has in no degree been behind European countries in its desire 

 for information as to the best methods of inproving the fisheries and 

 multiplying fish within her borders ; and Mr. Sekizawa Akekio, one of 

 the Japanese commissioners to the Philadelphia International Exhibi- 

 tion, devoted the greater part of his time in this country to the investi- 

 gation. He not only spent a considerable time in various hatching estab- 

 lishments, but visited some of the seaports of the country, and made 

 a fishing voyage for the purpose of studying this branch of American 

 industry. At his request a full series of models of the more important 

 fish hatching apparatus and the best forms of fishways was furnished 

 in exchange for the contribution of the entire fisheries exhibit of Japan, 

 a collection of very great practical and ethnological value.* 



The Canadian commission of fisheries, through Mr. Samuel Wilmot, 

 presented 6,000 of the Ontario salmon eggs, Salino salaj\ Liu., which 

 were placed at the command of the New York commissioners, and 

 hatched at the New York aquarium under their direction. ' From these 

 4,500 young fishes were obtained and deposited in Otsego Lake, at 

 Cooperstown, N. Y., in June, 1877. 



From the railway department of the department of public works, 



* Tbe list of apparatus given to Mr. H. Kubo, one of the commissioners for Japan, 

 contaius the following articles : 

 One Ferguson's hatching-jar. 

 Oae Coste hatching-box of glass grilles. 

 Oue Stoue's salmon-hatching bos. 

 Oue model Brackett's hatching-box. 

 One model Green's shad-hatching box. 

 One model Brackett's fishway. 

 Oae model Foster's fishway. 

 One model Eveleth's lishway. 

 Oae model Swazey's fishway. 

 One model Swazey & Atkins's fishway. 

 One model adaptation of Foster's fishway. 



