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REPORT OF COMMISSIONER OF FISH ANE FISHERIES. 



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On May 18 left Baltimore and returned to Battery Station, where. the 

 gathering and transferring of spawn were resumed. On tbe 22d some 

 of the fisheries had ceased operations and most of the gillers on the 

 east side of the bay had stopped fishing for the season, so the spawn- 

 takers from the Lookout were sent out to gather spawn in the immedi- 

 ate vicinity of the station and to attend the gillers above the station, 

 which resulted in getting 218,000 eggs on the 22d and 23d. 



On May 23, as the fishing season was about ended, orders were re- 

 ceived to discontinue the operations by the Lookout. 



Appended will be found tables giving records of the shad operations 

 during the season and of meteorological observations made in the vi- 

 cinity of Havre de Grace and on the Delaware Biver during a portion 

 of the month of May. The total number of eggs procured by the crew 

 of the vessel was 4,561,000. 



Table I. — Record of shad operations conducted near Havre de Grace, Aid., and on the 

 Delaware River, on the U. S. Fish Commission steamer Lookout. 



' Received from Battery Station. 



