XXXLV REPORT OF COMMISSIONER OF FISH AND FISHERIES. 



lot were mixed by mistake with 14,500 saibliug eggs, which arrived 

 the same day, and 50,000 mixed eggs were sent to several State and 

 National fish commission hatcheries. 10,000 eggs were received, also? 

 on account of the New York Fish Commission, from Herr von Behr. 



The Northville Station. — 20,000 eggs were received March 17 from the 

 Cold Spring Harbor Station, having come originally from Germany. 

 2,500 of these were sent to the Michigan Fish Commission and 5,000 

 to the Wisconsin Commission. The remaining eggs yielded nearly 

 9,000 fry, which were kept at the station. During November and De- 

 comber 9,400 eggs were taken from stock-fish in the Northville ponds, 

 but only 1,500 fry were obtained from them. 



The Wytheville Station. — 2,165 brown trout eggs were received in 

 March, 1S8G. They were hatched at a very unfavorable time, the water 

 being muddy during incubation and remaining so until the surviving 

 fish were several weeks old. 28G were reared, and in November they 

 were between 2£ and 3 inches long. In March, 1S87, 9,100 eggs were 

 received from Cold Spring Harbor, and in May, 3,000 fry arrived from 

 the Central Station. 



r. The Loch Leven Trout (Sdlmo levenensis). 



On January 14, 1887, the Cold Spring Harbor Station received 48,000 

 eggs of the Loch Leven trout from the Howietouu fishery in Scotland, 

 but nearly one-half of them were dead. Strong and healthy fry were 

 hatched from the remainder. 



8. The Atlantic Salmon (Salmo salar). 



The Bucksport Station.— 205 salmon were purchased from the Penob- 

 scot River fishermen, from May 29 to June 8, and placed in the iu- 

 closure at Dead Brook. Only 147 of these lived through the summer. 

 1,158,776 eggs were taken from 101 females, an average of 11,473 each. 

 Of these eggs, 1,099,000 were distributed, 320,000 being awarded to 

 Massachusetts and 779,000 to the U. S. Fish Commission, the work 

 having been conducted by these two commissions conjointly. 25,000 

 eggs were reserved for experiments at the station, and the fry were 

 afterwards liberated in Craig's Pond. The remaining eggs were sent 

 during February, 1887, to the following places: 



Cold Spring Harbor, 300,000; F. A. Walters, Bloomiugdale, N. Y., 

 250,000; E. B. Hodge, Plymouth, N. H., 100,000; Grand Lake Stream, 

 104,000. 



The Grand Lake Stream Station— About the 1st of March, 1887, 104,000 

 eggs were received from Bucksport. These were hatched with a loss of 

 only 255 eggs and young, and the fry were planted in tributaries of the 

 St. Croix River about the middle of June. 



The Cold Sprinq Harbor Station.— 240,000 eggs were received from 

 Bucksport January 7, 1886, and 260,000 on the 7th. 446,573 fry were 

 planted in tributaries of the Hudson and St. Lawrence Rivers and 

 Lake Ontario. During 1886 small numbers of young salmon were taken 



