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REPORT OF COMMISSIONER OF FISH AND FISHERIES. fis 
ScHoopic STATION, MAINE (CHARLES G. ATKINS, SUPERINTENDENT). 
The fiscal year opened with 50,000 landlocked salmon in the rearing- 
troughs, the hatching of the April preceding. The losses amounted in 
July to 106 and in August to 1,546. Late in August about 48,000 were 
liberated in Grand Lake andits outlet. In September all property was 
stored, the services of employees discontinued, and subsequently such 
part of the apparatus as was deemed of value transferred to the Craig 
Brook Station, work being permanently stopped, and further operations 
with the landlocked salmon conducted at Green Lake Station. 
CraiG Brook STATION, MAINE (CHARLES G. ATKINS, SUPERINTENDENT), 
Some minor but important constructions during thé year made this 
station almost perfect for the hatching and rearing of salmonide. 
Atlantic salmon.—The most important departure in fish-cultural 
methods was in the disposition, widely apart on the lawn, of stands of 
rearing-troughs fed by water of different origin, the object being to 
prevent the recurrence of a wholesale spread of disease like that of the 
preceding year, and, in the event of the reappearance of unfavorable 
_ symptoms, to determine, if practicable, the underlying cause and the 
- measures favorable to its eradication. No unfavorable developments 
Peake, 
occurring, the seat of former attacks remained undiscovered. 
The collection of eggs was again effected, in cooperation with the 
authorities of the State of Maine. There had been purchased in June, 
1892, and confined in the inclosure at Dead Brook, 222 adult fish, of 
which number 170 were available in October and November, 108 being 
females. The result in eggs was 1,108,500, of which 1,025,000 were 
alive in February when division was made, the portion of the Maine 
commissioners being 565,000 and that of the United States 460,000; 
of these latter, there were shipped as follows: 
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Date To whom shipped. eges 
Jan.25 1893..| E. B. Hodge, fish commissioner, Plymouth, N. H.............---..0.20.00.e00-0- 50, 000 
Jan. 25, 1893..| F. Mather, superintendent, Cold Spring Harbor, N. Y.-..--..---.-- Sate casemonete 75, 000 
Feb. 16, 1893..) R. E. Follett, superintendent, Lime Rock, Conn .....:............---.------200 108, 000 
Feb. 19, 1893..) United States Fish Commission Station, Green Lake, Me...................--- 10, 000 
The remainder, 217,000, were applied to hatching and rearing. The 
Maine commissioners being desirous of devoting a portion of their quota 
of eggs to further stocking the Penobscot River, arrangements were 
effected for developing and hatching at the station as many of their 
stock as 200,000, they providing the additional labor and supplies requi- 
site to meet the increased demands. These authorities subsequently 
donated 84,000 fry to the United States. 
Forty-three salmon, resulting from eggs taken November, 1887, yielded 
in November, 1891, about 12,000 eggs, and in November, 1892, produced 
about 23,000 eggs. As the parent fish from the fry stage had been 
continuously held in fresh-water ponds of the station, thereby becoming 
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