128 American Fisheries Society 



Year Number of Eggs Collected 



1892 192,966.000 



1893 '.... 83,214.000 



1894 258,640,000 



1895 518,460,000 



1896 189,363,000 



1897 96,743,000 



1898 361,778,000 



1899 678,840,000 



1900 492,330,000 



1901 636,244,000 



1902 773,060.000 



1903 485,119,000 



1904 533,619,000 



1905 816,664,000 



1906 095,471.000 



1907 1.055,629.000 



1908 971,550.000 



1909 1,046.646.000 



1910 917.558.000 



1911 1,115.585.000 



The above table shows an increase from 192,966,000 

 eggs collected in the year 1892, to 1,115,585,000 in the year 

 1911, or in round numbers six times as many during the 

 last year as during the first year of the table. . 



In seme years the table shows an apparent falling off in 

 the number of eggs collected, but the general tendency 

 throughout the whole period has been upward. The smaller 

 take of eggs could no doubt be accounted for by unfavorable 

 weather just at the time the fish were spawning freely, as a 

 few days at the height of the season often makes a great 

 difference in the number of eggs secured. The falling off 

 in the take of eggs in the years 1896 and 18 ( )7, the years 

 showing the fewest eggs taken since the first two years, can 

 be accounted for from the fact that during those two years 

 no pike-perch eggs were collected. 



The increase in the number of eggs collected at this sta- 

 tion during the past six years would have been much greater 

 except for the fact that during that time the take of eggs 

 from the original territory has been divided with the Ohio 

 State Fish Commission. An agreement being entered into 

 in 1906 whereby the Ohio Commission was to collect the 

 herring eggs and the U. S. Bureau the whitefish and pike- 

 perch eggs, the fields formerly operated by the government 



