COLLECTION OF EGGS OF SCHOODIC SALMON. 917 



Finding that the route to Dobsis stream was closed, I was compelled 

 to improvise a hatching-house out of the ruins of the old one at the 

 spring referred to above. Fortunately we had an abundance of appar- 

 atus, and it being very compact, a single trough about twenty-five feet 

 long was room enough for the half-million spawn which was to be de- 

 posited there. 



Very few other fish than Schoodic salmon were taken in the pounds. 

 The number of brook-trout (Salmo fontinalis) did not exceed a dozen ; 

 of togue {Salmo totna'^.) barely two were caught j of whitefish, ten; of 

 eels, not exceeding half a dozen ; of Cyprinidce there were a good many 

 suckers, and great numbers of chubs and shiners passed at will through 

 our nets. 



There was taken a single specimen of Salmo solar, a female of about 

 thirteen pounds' weight ;. she yielded 10,000 eggs, which were impreg- 

 nated with the milt of the Schoodic salmon ; they developed well, hatched 

 into vigorous fish, which were afterward deposited in Williams pond, in 

 Bucksport. 



3. — DISTRIBUTION OF THE EGGS. 



The eggs at Grand Lake stream were divided early in February, 1876, 

 and those at Dobsis stream in March. On measuring all the spawn, 

 there were found to be 933,000 eggs. Of these, 265,000 were left to be 

 hatched for Grand Lake stream (being 32,000 in excess of the proper 

 quota of 25 per cent.). The remainder were divided among the several 

 parties bearing the expense, namely, the Fishery Commission of the 

 United States, of Connecticut, Massachusetts, Ehode Island, Vermont, 

 and Wisconsin. 



The share of the United States was 159,000, which were distributed 

 as follows : 



To Vermont , 14, 000 



Connecticut 14, 000 



Pennsylvania 8, 000 



Virginia • 4, 000 



Ohio 12, 000 



Michigan 18, 000 



Wisconsin . 24, 000 



Minnesota - 10, 000 



Iowa. 10, 000 



Illinois ,. 20,000 



Tennessee , 4, 000 



Kew York 11, 000 



Dominion of Canada 10, 000 



Total 159, 000 



