﻿REPORT 
  OF 
  COMMISSIONER 
  OF 
  FISH 
  AND 
  FISHERIES. 
  3 
  

  

  Auotlier 
  attempt 
  was 
  made 
  to 
  acclimatize 
  quiuuat 
  salmon 
  in 
  east- 
  

   coast 
  waters 
  by 
  the 
  transfer 
  of 
  10,000 
  eg.a:s 
  to 
  Craig' 
  Brook, 
  Maine, 
  where 
  

   they 
  were 
  hatched 
  and 
  retained 
  for 
  distribution 
  in 
  the 
  fall. 
  Large 
  con- 
  

   signments 
  of 
  steelheads 
  were 
  also 
  brought 
  east 
  to 
  be 
  introduced 
  into 
  

   the 
  coastal 
  waters 
  of 
  New 
  England, 
  and 
  besides 
  the 
  usual 
  plants 
  of 
  

   salmon 
  fry 
  in 
  the 
  Columbia 
  and 
  Sacramento 
  rivers, 
  over 
  750,000 
  finger- 
  

   ling 
  salmon 
  were 
  liberated 
  in 
  the 
  Clackamas 
  and 
  McCloud 
  rivers, 
  which 
  

   should 
  produce 
  valuable 
  results. 
  

  

  Further 
  experiments 
  have 
  been 
  made 
  in 
  using 
  artificial 
  nests 
  for 
  

   spawning 
  black 
  bass 
  at 
  Wytheville, 
  the 
  fish 
  ponds 
  at 
  Washington, 
  and 
  

   at 
  Put-in 
  Bay. 
  From 
  the 
  results 
  secured 
  at 
  the 
  former 
  station, 
  it 
  is 
  

   believed 
  that 
  artificial 
  nests 
  may 
  be 
  successfully 
  used 
  and 
  the 
  problem 
  

   of 
  raising 
  this 
  species 
  simplified. 
  Efforts 
  were 
  again 
  made 
  to 
  artificially 
  

   fertilize 
  the 
  eggs 
  of 
  black 
  bass; 
  and 
  though 
  in 
  one 
  or 
  two 
  instances 
  

   the 
  eggs 
  were 
  fertilized, 
  as 
  yet 
  the 
  experiments 
  have 
  not 
  disclosed 
  a 
  

   method 
  of 
  conducting 
  the 
  work 
  on 
  a 
  large 
  scale; 
  first, 
  because 
  of 
  the 
  

   difiiculty 
  of 
  securing 
  ripe 
  fish, 
  and 
  second, 
  of 
  expressing 
  the 
  milt 
  and 
  

   eggs. 
  

  

  In 
  accordance 
  with 
  previous 
  custom, 
  the 
  use 
  of 
  the 
  laboratory 
  at 
  

   Woods 
  Hole 
  was 
  granted 
  to 
  the 
  representatives 
  of 
  various 
  colleges 
  

   for 
  biological 
  study, 
  in 
  order 
  that 
  the 
  Commission 
  might 
  be 
  benefited 
  

   by 
  the 
  results 
  of 
  their 
  researches. 
  This 
  station, 
  equipped 
  as 
  it 
  is 
  with 
  

   extensive 
  buildings 
  and 
  costly 
  appliances, 
  and 
  situated 
  on 
  a 
  bay 
  which 
  

   is 
  a 
  natural 
  spawning-ground 
  for 
  the 
  more 
  important 
  marine 
  fishes, 
  is 
  a 
  

   valuable 
  property 
  to 
  the 
  Government, 
  and 
  it 
  is 
  designed 
  to 
  so 
  extend 
  

   the 
  work 
  of 
  the 
  station 
  that, 
  it 
  shall 
  be 
  a 
  hatchery 
  and 
  biological 
  

   station 
  second 
  to 
  none. 
  

  

  The 
  canvass 
  of 
  the 
  fishing 
  industries 
  of 
  the 
  interior 
  waters 
  of 
  llie 
  

   United 
  States, 
  begun 
  in 
  the 
  winter 
  of 
  1805, 
  was 
  resumed 
  and 
  actively 
  

   pushed 
  during 
  the 
  entire 
  year, 
  and 
  is 
  now 
  complete. 
  The 
  inquiry 
  did 
  

   not 
  cover 
  the 
  Great 
  Lakes, 
  which 
  were 
  canvassed 
  the 
  previous 
  year, 
  

   but 
  included 
  all 
  those 
  interior 
  States 
  in 
  which 
  the 
  industry 
  was 
  carried 
  

   on 
  to 
  any 
  great 
  extent. 
  These 
  fisheries 
  are 
  of 
  considerable 
  economical 
  

   importance; 
  in 
  1894 
  they 
  employed 
  11,281* 
  persons, 
  rei^resented 
  a 
  total 
  

   capital 
  Invested 
  of 
  $722,328, 
  and 
  yielded 
  to 
  fishermen 
  a 
  product 
  valued 
  

   at 
  $1,791,115. 
  While 
  many 
  varieties 
  of 
  fresh-water 
  fishes 
  are 
  repre- 
  

   sented 
  in 
  the 
  catch, 
  the 
  most 
  prominent 
  and 
  those 
  of 
  most 
  pecuniary 
  

   importance 
  are 
  sheepshead, 
  black 
  bass, 
  crappie, 
  whitefish, 
  sturgeon, 
  

   sunfish, 
  buffalo-fish, 
  catfish, 
  and 
  yellow 
  perch. 
  

  

  From 
  February 
  to 
  April, 
  1890, 
  a 
  canvass 
  was 
  made 
  of 
  the 
  contiguous 
  

   waters 
  of 
  Maine 
  and 
  New 
  Brunswick 
  to 
  obtain 
  certain 
  data 
  regarding 
  

   tlie 
  commercial 
  aspects 
  of 
  the 
  herring 
  and 
  sardine 
  industries 
  for 
  the 
  

   use 
  of 
  the 
  International 
  Fisheries 
  Commission, 
  and 
  at 
  the 
  same 
  time 
  

   much 
  valuable 
  statistical 
  information 
  was 
  collected 
  regarding 
  the 
  her- 
  

   ring 
  fisheries 
  and 
  their 
  related 
  branches, 
  which 
  will 
  be 
  embodied 
  in 
  a 
  

   report 
  to 
  be 
  issued 
  later. 
  There 
  was 
  also 
  obtained 
  for 
  the 
  International 
  

   Fisheries 
  Commission 
  desired 
  information 
  relative 
  to 
  the 
  mackerel 
  

   fisheries 
  of 
  New 
  England. 
  

  

  