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batched. 75,000 fry were successfully planted in Lake Ontario, near 

 Oswego, N. Y. 



/. The Smelt (Osmerus mordax). 



Large numbers of smelts were batcbed at tbe Cold Spring Harbor 

 Station, tbe parent fish having been obtained on the south side of Long 

 Island. The hatching was rendered difficult by the glutinous nature 

 of the eggs, but about one-half were developed. Over 2,000,000 young 

 were planted in Cold Spring Harbor and 50,000 were deposited in 

 Saranac Lake, in northeastern New York. 



About the first of April a lot of eggs were sent to North ville Station, 

 where they arrived in bad condition and apparently dead, but upon 

 digging into the mass about 15 or 20 per cent, were found to be good. 



k. The Whitefish (Coregonus dupeiformis). 



Notwithstanding the stormy and very cold weather 129,400,000 white- 

 fish eggs were obtained during November and December for the hatch- 

 ing stations at Northville and Alpena, Mich. The first eggs were re- 

 ceived from Lake Erie November 7; the last from Lake Michigan 

 December 13. On November 28 about 30,000 eggs were taken from 

 two whitefish which had been batched and reared at the Northville 

 Station; this is believed to be the first record of their breeding in cap- 

 tivity. Tbe hatching season at Northville lasted from March 11 to 

 April 12 ; at Alpena, from April 22 to May 8. 



32,600,000 eggs were distributed, mostly to neighboring state fish 

 commissions; 02,070,000 fry were planted in waters of Michigan, Ohio, 

 Indiana, and New York; 2,500,000 eggs were sent to England, 1,000,000 

 to Germany, and 1,500,000 to New Zealand ; 5,000,000 were forwarded to 

 the Central Station at Washington; 10,000,000 each to the State hatch- 

 eries of Pennsylvania and Minnesota; 1,000,000 to New York, and 

 1,600,000 to Delaware. From the 1,000,000 eggs sent to the Cold 

 Spring Harbor Station nearly 950,000 young were obtained, and these 

 were deposited in deep, cold lakes on Long Island. 



1. The Dwarf White fish (Coregonus albala). 



In January, 1886, Mas von dem Borne sent 80,000 eggs of this species 

 as a gift from the Deutsche Fischerei-Vereiu, by Herr von Bebr, to the 

 United States Fish Commission. These were received at the Cold 

 Spring Harbor Station, and Mr. Mather was directed by the Commis- 

 sioner to forward 70,000 eggs to Bucksport and 10,000 to Northville. 

 Mr. Atkins received his allotment February 1. The first fish hatched 

 out March 24, and about 51,000 young were obtained ; these were 

 planted April 21, 18S6, in Heart Pond, a small lake near Bucksport 

 which empties into the Eastern Eiver, a small tributary of the Penob- 

 scot. Some of the eggs sent to Northville were hatched March 7, but 

 no healthy young were secured from them. 



