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ment. It was successful, however, and the undertaking thus 

 inaugurated has been annually continued, and a total number of 

 5,947,000 fry and 456 boxes of salmon-trout eggs have been 

 distributed. 



Whitefish. — The artificial culture of whitefish was com- 

 menced in the fall of 1868, and the eggs were hatched out in 

 February, 1869. From these, as also from a farther instalment 

 received from Detroit, in 1870, the Commissioners were enabled 

 to make distributions to numerous applicants, and several ship- 

 ments to England. To the present speaking, 1,758,000 fry and 

 26 boxes of whitefish eggs have been delivered. 



Salmon. — Salmon culture was first attempted in 1871, when 

 4,000 impregnated salmon ova were obtained from Canada, in 

 exchange for 2,000 salmon-trout fry and 2,000 young whitefish. 

 The work, although at various times repeated, has met with no 

 very encouraging demand from the public for a supply of the 

 young, the total number distributed amounting to about 210,000. 



California Salmon. — This fish was first introduced into the 

 waters of our State in i872-'73, as being better adapted to them 

 than the true salmon. During that and the following year a 

 total of 636,000 have been distributed. Of these many young 

 have been seen in the fresh waters, but it is not known that any 

 have visited the sea and returned. 



Blue-backed Trout. — Five thousand of the eggs of this fish 

 were purchased from Maine in 1874, and in 1875, 4,000 more 

 were received ; but in consequence of the bad condition of the 

 eggs when received, and the small number which were hatched, 

 the Commissioners hardly consider the attempt at their acclima- 

 tization deserving of consideration. 



Eels. — Some little attention has been devoted to this class of 



