156 REPORT OF COMMISSIONER OF FISH AND FISHERIES. 



Below are the tables of distribution : 



FKOM NOETHVILLE. 



[6] 



1885. 

 April 2 



8 

 II 

 14 

 17 

 18 

 20 

 22 

 25 

 27 

 29 



1 



May 



Lake Micbigan, near Ludington, Mich 



liake Miobigau, uear Milwaukee and Sheboygan, "Wis 



Lake Erie, near Monroe, Mich 



Lake Michigan, near Ludington, Mich 



Lake Michigan, near Grand Haven, Mich 



Lake Erie, uear Monroe, Mich 



Detroit River, near Detroit, Mich 



Lake Michigan, near Saint Joseph, Mich 



Lake Erie, uear Monroe, Mich 



Lake Erie, near North Bas.s Island 



Lake Michigan, near Milwaukee, Wis 



Detroit Elver, near Detroit, Mich 



3, 000, 000 

 G, 000, 000 

 5, 000, 000 



4, 000, 000 

 4, 000, 000 

 4, 000, 000 

 4, 000, 000 

 4, 060, 000 

 4, 000, 000 

 4, 000, 000 

 4, 000, 000 

 4, 000, 000 



50, 000, 000 



FEOM ALPENA. 



I Huron, near Black Eivor, Mich 



Huron, near Oscoda, Mich 



! Huron, near Sturgeon Point, Mich 



Huron, near Alcona, Mich 



Huron, near Cheboygan, Mich 



Huron, near Scare Crow Isle 



Huron, near Mackinac Isle 



Superior, near Marquette, Mich ... 



Huiou, near Thunder Bay Isle 



Huron, near Mackinac Islo 



Huron, neai- Partridge Point, Mich 

 : Superior, uear Marquette, Mioh ... 



Hurou, uear Black Kiver Isle 



I Huron, near Ossineke, Mich 



3, 000, 000 

 3, 000, 000 

 3, 000, 000 

 3, 000, 000 

 3, 000, 000 

 3, 000, 000 

 3, 000, 000 



2, 000, 000 



3, 000, 000 

 3, 000, 000 

 3, 000, 000 



2, 000, 000 



3, 000, 000 

 1, 000, 000 



38, 000, 000 



RAINBOW TEOUT. 



I am pleased to report a great improvement in the quality of the 

 eggs of this species this season. Heretofore we have usually lost from 

 75 to 90 per cent of the eggs obtained, but this season more than half 

 the eggs were good. The fish were fed much less, and it is supposed 

 that this accounts for the difference. I am convinced that breeding- 

 fish when fed too much will produce weak eggs — that it is better to 

 half starve than to overfeed them. This principle of the effect of high 

 feeding is well understood by stock-breeders, and doubtless applies to 

 fish as well as quadrupeds. 



The spawning season opened January 9, and closed April 24. Tlie 

 first eggs were much inferior to the later takings, many of the latter 

 Bhowiug 90 per cent good. For the first time at this station, a few 

 eggs were taken from two-year-old trout. 



