REPORT OF COMMISSIONER OF FISH AND FISHERIES. LI 



9. — COURTESIES AND ASSISTANCE RENDERED BY THE FISH COMMIS- 

 SION. 



England. — Shipments to England were made to the National Fish 

 Culture Association, South Kensington, London. On January 15 and 

 29, 1886, two lots of whitefish eggs, each of 1,000,000, were forwarded 

 by the Cunard steamer Aurania. On January 15, 1887, 1,500,000 eggs 

 of the same species, followed on February 19 by 1,000,000, were shipped 

 through Mr. E. G. Blackford, of New York. Few of these, however, 

 arrived in good condition. 



50,000 lake-trout eggs were sent by the Aurania on January 15, 1886, 

 and arrived in excellent order. 



10,000 brook-trout eggs were carried by the Cunarder Servia, January 

 29, 1886, and 10,000 were forwarded through Mr. Blackford on January 

 15, 1887. 



10,000 eggs of the landlocked salmon were taken March 16,1886, by 

 the White Star Line steamer Germanic. On March 5, 1887, Mr. E. G. 

 Blackford assisted in sending 25,000 eggs of the same species. Both of 

 these shipments were successful. 



10,000 eggs of the rainbow trout were sent from Wytheville during 

 the fiscal year 1886-'87. 



France. — During the fiscal year 1S86-'S7, 5,000 eggs of the rainbow 

 trout were sent to France from the Wytheville Station. On April 6, 

 1887, 25,000 eggs of this trout from the Northville Station were sent to 

 Mr. E. G. Blackford for shipment to France. 



25,000 eggs of the landlocked salmon, from Grand Lake Stream 

 Station, were shipped on April 1, 1887, to L6on d'Halloy, vice-president 

 of the Lower Seine Fish Commission. 



Germany. — In April, 1886, an unsuccessful attempt was made to 

 transport shad to the Danube River. 



On March 20, 1886, 20,000 landlocked salmon eggs were sent to von 

 <lem Borne for the Fischerei Verein. 30,000 eggs of this species were 

 forwarded on March 5, 1887, through Mr. E. G. Blackford, to von Behr 

 for the same association, and 10,000 to Max von dem Borne for his 

 establishment at Berneuchen. 



In January, 1886, two shipments of whitefish eggs, each containing 

 1,000,000, were made from Northville to the Deutsche Fischerei Verein, 

 Germany. These were repacked at Cold Spring Harbor. A third con- 

 signment of 1,000,000 from the same station was reshipped by Mr. 

 Blackford March 10 in the original packages, modified only by replac- 

 ing some of the packing with ice. On January 22, 1887, again 1,000,000 

 whitefish eggs were sent from Northville to Mr. Blackford, to be for- 

 warded to Germany. 



At Cold Spring Harbor 50,000 lake-trout eggs, which had come from 

 Northville, were reshipped on January 18, 1886, per steamer Fulda, to 

 the Fischerei Verein. 



