XXXII REPORT OF COMMISSIONER OF FISH AND FISHERIES. 
more fully in Appendix G, Article XXV, p. 553. This production of 
nearly 30,000,000 shad is a very gratifying increase of some 14,000,000 
over 1879. 
The Albemarle Sound Station, operated last year, was not continued. 
The field, however, was well occupied by the North Carolina State com- 
mission. The work on the Potomac River, instead of being scattered at 
various stations, was concentrated at the navy-yard—an arrangement 
which became possible through the courtesy of the Commandant of the 
Yard and of the Chief of the Bureau of Yards and Docks. 
Havre de Grace Station—This station, at Spesutie Narrows, on the 
Susquehanna River, was operated conjoimtly with the Maryland com- 
mission, and under the direction of T. B. Ferguson, Maryland com- 
missioner, who placed in charge of the entire work Mr. John 8. Saunders, 
who had been employed the previous year at the Albemarle Sound 
Station. 
On the 29th of April two barges, containing the machinery and quar- 
ters for the men, were taken fot Baltimore to the Narrows. e 
taking of eggs Perameneed on the third of May and continued until 
the tenth of June, at which time the fishing ceased, in accordance with 
the Maryland laws. During that period 13,355,000 eggs were secured. 
These were obtained by means of the Feoneuaton of the fishermen, who 
allowed their fish to be stripped before being taken to market. 
The use of the floating apparatus made it possible, and very advan- 
tageous, about the 30th of May, to move the station to a point 
about five miles above where the barges were first moored. This was 
made necessary by the apparent change in the movements of the fish, 
due perhaps to an influx of salt or brackish water, which a continued 
prevalence of southerly winds forced up the river. 
The price paid the fishermen for the privilege of removing the eggs 
from the shad was slightly reduced from that paid in previous years ; 
and yet, as the production was more than twenty per cent greater than 
in 1879, there was a material gain to the fishermen. 
On the 12th of June an accident occurred, the barges being driven 
from their moorings by a severe storm of wind and rain. This caused 
a premature deposit of some 800,000 or 900,000 fish and eggs in the river, 
and delayed a proposed car-shipment ofa million of shad to the Penobscot 
and Kennebec Rivers, in Maine. 
A few days later, however, the number was made up by assistance 
from the Washington station, and the car was moved, by the courtesy 
of the Philadelphia, Wilmington and Baltimore Railroad Company and 
the connecting lines, to Bangor, where Mr. Stilwell, a commissioner of 
that State, took charge of the depositing of the fish. Another car-load 
of eggs was successfully transferred to the Nanticoke River, and 1,000,000 
young fish were deposited near Seaford, Del. A half a million of eggs 
were delivered to J. P. Creveling, a commissioner of Pennsylvania, w hich 
were deposited by him in the upper waters of the Susquehanna River. 
