﻿KEPORT 
  OF 
  COMMISSIONER 
  OF 
  FISH 
  AND 
  FISHERIES. 
  

  

  35 
  

  

  The 
  followiug 
  table 
  sliows 
  the 
  iminber 
  of 
  shad 
  eggs 
  collected, 
  fry 
  

   hatched 
  aud 
  planted, 
  and 
  temperature 
  of 
  the 
  water: 
  

  

  At 
  the 
  close 
  of 
  the 
  fishing 
  season 
  on 
  the 
  Delaware 
  the 
  vessel 
  was 
  

   instructed 
  to 
  proceed 
  as 
  soon 
  as 
  possible 
  to 
  Oasco 
  Bay 
  via 
  Woods 
  Hole, 
  

   to 
  take 
  up 
  the 
  mackerel 
  and 
  lobster 
  work. 
  It 
  left 
  Philadelphia 
  on 
  

   June 
  18, 
  and 
  arrived 
  at 
  Woods 
  Hole 
  on 
  the 
  afternoon 
  of 
  the 
  20th, 
  

   where 
  it 
  remained 
  long 
  enough 
  to 
  take 
  on 
  the 
  apparatus 
  necessary 
  to 
  

   conduct 
  operations 
  with 
  those 
  species. 
  Orr 
  Island, 
  in 
  Casco 
  Bay, 
  was 
  

   selected 
  as 
  headquarters, 
  as 
  it 
  is 
  in 
  easy 
  communication 
  with 
  Portland 
  

   and 
  Boothbay. 
  It 
  was 
  also 
  the 
  headcjuarters 
  of 
  a 
  large 
  number 
  of 
  the 
  

   mackerel 
  drag-net 
  fishermen. 
  Operations 
  were 
  commenced 
  at 
  once, 
  

   the 
  regular 
  crew 
  being 
  detailed 
  as 
  spawn-takers 
  to 
  go 
  out 
  with 
  the 
  

   drag-net 
  boats 
  and 
  to 
  attend 
  the 
  traps 
  in 
  the 
  vicinity. 
  The 
  schooner 
  

   Grampus, 
  which 
  had 
  been 
  detailed 
  to 
  assist 
  in 
  tlie 
  work, 
  was 
  sta- 
  

   tioned 
  at 
  Small 
  Point, 
  Me., 
  for 
  the 
  purpose 
  of 
  attending 
  the 
  traps 
  in 
  

   that 
  locality, 
  the 
  steam 
  launch 
  transferring 
  the 
  eggs 
  daily 
  to 
  the 
  Fish 
  

   HmcTi. 
  

  

  It 
  was 
  soon 
  found 
  that 
  while 
  the 
  traps 
  about 
  Cape 
  Small 
  took 
  quite 
  

   a 
  number 
  of 
  spawning 
  mackerel, 
  those 
  in 
  the 
  central 
  part 
  of 
  the 
  bay 
  

   took 
  scarcely 
  any, 
  and 
  it 
  became 
  necessary 
  for 
  the 
  crew 
  to 
  rely 
  entirely 
  

   on 
  the 
  drag-netters 
  for 
  eggs. 
  The 
  great 
  ma,jority 
  of 
  spawning 
  mackerel 
  

   taken 
  in 
  these 
  nets 
  died 
  before 
  the 
  eggs 
  could 
  be 
  secured, 
  and 
  those 
  

   which 
  were 
  alive 
  produced 
  but 
  few, 
  having 
  no 
  doubt 
  emitted 
  the 
  greater 
  

   part 
  of 
  the 
  ripe 
  ones 
  on 
  account 
  of 
  worry 
  consequent 
  on 
  capture. 
  The 
  

   same 
  was 
  found 
  to 
  be 
  true 
  of 
  the 
  fish 
  taken 
  in 
  the 
  traps. 
  

  

  