904 REPORT OF COMMISSIONER OF FISH AND FISHERIES. 



sent to tlie Alabama Eiver; 100,000 to the Sacramento Eiver, and 

 654,000 to the waters of the Mississippi River. 



A total of 924,000 shad was returned to the waters of the Connecti- 

 cut, altogether 1,104,000 deposited within the boundaries of Massachu- 

 setts, and 854,000 shipped south and west. 



This is the smallest year's work eVer done at this station. The asser- 

 tion made by residents that the river was lower and the water warmer 

 than ever before known in the Connecticut seems quite probable. 



The entire season's work figures out the total from the reports of those 

 who deposited the fishes in thewaters at 5,877,500 shad in the streams 

 of the Atlantic slope, the gulf rivers, the tributaries of the Mississippi, 

 and the Sacr'>-mento River of the Pacific coast. 



