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  KEPORT 
  OF 
  THE 
  COMMISSIONER 
  OF 
  FISHERIES. 
  

  

  with 
  discouraging 
  results, 
  the 
  green 
  fish 
  so 
  held 
  either 
  dying 
  before 
  

   the 
  eggs 
  matured 
  or, 
  in 
  case 
  they 
  survived, 
  yielding 
  eggs 
  that 
  were 
  

   almost 
  if 
  not 
  quite 
  worthless. 
  It 
  may 
  be 
  stated, 
  however, 
  that 
  such 
  

   attempts 
  were 
  confined 
  entirely 
  to 
  crates 
  moored 
  in 
  the 
  Missisquoi 
  

   River, 
  most 
  of 
  the 
  brood 
  fish 
  for 
  the 
  Swanton 
  station 
  being 
  taken 
  in 
  

   those 
  waters 
  rather 
  than 
  from 
  the 
  lake. 
  Very 
  soon 
  after 
  the 
  disap- 
  

   pearance 
  of 
  ice 
  in 
  the 
  lake 
  in 
  the 
  spring 
  of 
  1914 
  a 
  number 
  of 
  decidedly 
  

   green 
  fish 
  were 
  capti:«"ed 
  in 
  seines 
  and 
  transferred 
  direct 
  to 
  the 
  pens. 
  

   They 
  matured 
  rapidly, 
  there 
  was 
  no 
  noteworthy 
  loss, 
  and 
  the 
  eggs 
  

   were 
  equal 
  in 
  quality 
  to 
  those 
  obtained 
  from 
  ripe 
  fish 
  captured 
  in 
  the 
  

   river. 
  Nearly 
  500 
  green 
  females 
  were 
  thus 
  matured, 
  and 
  more 
  might 
  

   have 
  been 
  ripened 
  in 
  this 
  way 
  had 
  it 
  not 
  been 
  deemed 
  inadvisable, 
  

   in 
  view 
  of 
  the 
  unsatisfactory 
  results 
  in 
  the 
  past, 
  to 
  conduct 
  the 
  

   experiment 
  on 
  too 
  extensive 
  a 
  scale. 
  

  

  Experiments 
  in 
  the 
  artificial 
  propagation 
  of 
  the 
  buffalo-fishes 
  were 
  

   continued 
  at 
  the 
  Meredosia, 
  111., 
  station 
  during 
  the 
  sprmg 
  of 
  1914, 
  

   but 
  the 
  results 
  were 
  almost 
  negative. 
  The 
  low 
  water 
  prevailing 
  in 
  the 
  

   Illinois 
  River 
  during 
  the 
  spawning 
  season 
  made 
  it 
  exceedingly 
  difficult 
  

   to 
  secure 
  brood 
  fish, 
  and 
  only 
  one 
  ripe 
  female 
  was 
  obtained; 
  this 
  

   yielded 
  300,000 
  eggs, 
  from 
  which 
  150,000 
  fry 
  were 
  hatched. 
  As 
  

   noted 
  in 
  former 
  attempts 
  to 
  propagate 
  the 
  buffalo-fish, 
  the 
  fry 
  after 
  

   hatching 
  seem 
  unable 
  to 
  swim 
  from 
  the 
  jars. 
  However, 
  by 
  placing 
  

   the 
  fully 
  developed 
  eggs 
  in 
  shallow 
  pans 
  just 
  prior 
  to 
  hatching, 
  the 
  

   heavy 
  losses 
  from 
  smothering 
  which 
  occur 
  when 
  the 
  fry 
  are 
  held 
  in 
  

   jars 
  with 
  developing 
  eggs 
  were 
  overcome. 
  It 
  is 
  doubtful 
  if 
  any 
  

   conspicuous 
  results 
  with 
  the 
  buffalo-fishes 
  can 
  be 
  expected 
  until 
  

   special 
  hatching 
  facilities 
  can 
  be 
  provided 
  and 
  water 
  of 
  a 
  relatively 
  

   high 
  temperature 
  insured. 
  

  

  The 
  propagation 
  of 
  shad 
  on 
  the 
  Willamette 
  River 
  near 
  Oregon 
  City, 
  

   Oreg., 
  has 
  become 
  an 
  established 
  feature 
  of 
  the 
  fish-cultural 
  operations 
  

   on 
  the 
  west 
  coast, 
  but 
  as 
  yet 
  is 
  conducted 
  on 
  only 
  a 
  small 
  scale. 
  The 
  

   run 
  of 
  shad 
  in 
  the 
  Columbia 
  River 
  and 
  tributary 
  streams 
  during 
  the 
  

   spring 
  of 
  1914 
  was 
  unusually 
  large. 
  On 
  the 
  Willamette 
  River 
  opera- 
  

   tions 
  began 
  May 
  27, 
  and 
  4,062,000 
  eggs 
  had 
  been 
  secured 
  up 
  to 
  June 
  

   30, 
  with 
  the 
  prospect 
  that 
  the 
  season's 
  output 
  would 
  exceed 
  6,000,000 
  

   fry. 
  

  

  EXPERIMENTS 
  IN 
  ACCLIMATIZATION. 
  

  

  Two 
  interesting 
  reciprocal 
  transfers 
  of 
  aquatic 
  creatures 
  between 
  

   the 
  Atlantic 
  and 
  Pacific 
  coasts 
  have 
  been 
  in 
  progress 
  for 
  several 
  years, 
  

   and 
  are 
  now 
  being 
  actively 
  pushed 
  in 
  the 
  belief 
  that 
  defhiite 
  results 
  of 
  

   a 
  highly 
  practical 
  value 
  will 
  ultimately, 
  perhaps 
  soon, 
  be 
  achieved. 
  

  

  The 
  Atlantic's 
  contribution 
  to 
  the 
  Pacific 
  is 
  the 
  lobster. 
  In 
  No- 
  

   vember, 
  1913, 
  4,007 
  adult 
  lobsters, 
  about 
  evenly 
  divided 
  as 
  to 
  sex, 
  

   were 
  transferred 
  from 
  the 
  Bureau's 
  station 
  at 
  Boothbay 
  Harbor, 
  Me., 
  

   to 
  Seattle, 
  Wash., 
  in 
  one 
  of 
  the 
  standard 
  refrigerator 
  cars 
  of 
  the 
  

   American 
  Express 
  Co., 
  an 
  attendant 
  accompanying 
  the 
  shipment 
  to 
  

   give 
  the 
  lobsters 
  proper 
  care. 
  On 
  arriving 
  at 
  Seattle 
  the 
  lobsters 
  

   were 
  placed 
  on 
  a 
  Puget 
  Sound 
  steamer 
  and 
  conveyed 
  to 
  the 
  San 
  Juan 
  

   Islands, 
  where 
  they 
  were 
  distributed 
  in 
  excellent 
  condition 
  off 
  Deer 
  

   Harbor 
  and 
  Friday 
  Harbor. 
  The 
  total 
  losses 
  in 
  transit 
  were 
  only 
  440. 
  

   It 
  is 
  felt 
  that 
  the 
  annual 
  planting 
  of 
  some 
  thousands 
  of 
  adult 
  lobstere 
  

   in 
  a 
  given 
  locality 
  known 
  to 
  have 
  the 
  requisite 
  physical 
  conditions 
  wfil 
  

   result 
  in 
  the 
  establishment 
  of 
  a 
  flourishing 
  colony 
  from 
  which 
  offshoots 
  

  

  