LIV REPORT OF COMMISSIONER OF FISH AND FISHERIES. 



were not properly cared for on the passage, aud were all lost. Those lo 

 England were duly received in good condition, batchedwitU a very low 

 rate of mortality, aud planted in the lisLi-cuiture establishment at Del- 

 aford Park ; and those to Scotland arrived in good order. 



The Gold Sprimj Harbor Station. — From four lots of eggs received in 

 1883, 75,000 eggs in all, only 20,200 fry were obtained. These were 

 planted in various waters of New York. The number handled in 1884 

 was only 10,000, which were planted in streams near the station. 



This is a fish that, for some reason, does not do well at this station. 

 During the summer of 1884, though plentifully fed, they did not grow 

 much, and they died in great numbers. 



This species is a quick-growing fish and not very sensitive to warm 

 water, and in these resi^ects is superior to our brook trout. 



Central Station. — One hundred and forty-seven thousand five hundred 

 eggs of the rainbow trout were received from the McCloud Kiver Sta- 

 tion during the months of January, February, and March, 1885. The 

 packages were opened, their condition ascertained, repack'Cd, and the 

 eggs distributed as follows: 



To Wytbeville Station • 11:5,000 



To the Fish-Cultural Exhibit, New Orleans Exposition f), UOO 



To the Maryland Commissioner of Fisheries T), 000 



To Cokl Spring Harbor Station, New York 22, 500 



ToH. I. Pierce, Winsted, Conn 2,000 



Total 147,500 



No eggs of this species were hatched at Central Station during the 

 season. 



The Wytheville Station. — This station was first occupied in the winter 

 of 1881-'82 witli the object of establishing a center for the breeding and 

 rearing of Salmonida^ for stocking the headwaters of those streams 

 in Pennsylvania, Maryland, Virginia, West Virginia, North Carolina, 

 South Carolina, Tennessee, Georgia, and Alabama, which rise in the 

 Appahichian region and flow into the Atlantic and the Gulf of Mexico. 



A notable feature of the work of tlie year is the stocking of a number 

 of the streams of the South Atlantic aud Gulf Basins with two-year-old 

 California trout. The California trout reared at the station from eggs 

 brought from McCloud River, California, spawned for the first time in 

 December, 1884. 



With the close of the year, therefore, we have this station inaugurated 

 as a producing as well as a hatching and distributing station. The 

 fish-cultural work hereafter will be mainly directed to the breeding 

 and rearing of the California trout for stocking Appalachian waters; 

 aud as it is not proposed to distribute the fry bred at the station until 

 they are at least one year old, it will require a very extensive system 

 of ponds to meet the requirements of the work. Detailed plans for 

 these and for a new hatchery have been already perfected. 



