AMERICAN FISHERIES SOCIETY. 



sliire; Col. McDiHiald, Virginia; Fraiiiv N. Clark, Micljigan 

 and upon vote these officers were declared duly elected. 

 The following paper was then read: 



WORK AT COLD SPRING HARBOR. 



BY FRED MATHER. 



The past season has been the most successful one we have had 

 since operations were begun here in 1883. We have turned out 

 more fish than ever before, the figures for 1886 footing up to 

 over 6,000,000; while this year the figures are over 9,000,000. 

 There was a decrease in the numbers of salmon hatched and 

 planted; also in trout, but an increase in shad and Adirondack 

 frostfish and other species. 



Salmon. — We received 300,000 eggs from the United States 

 station on the Penobscot River, which hatched in such excellent 

 condition that our loss was only about 8,000, which is the best 

 we have ever done; of these fish 50,000 were planted in the 

 Housatonic River, near Kent, New Milford and Falls Village, 

 Conn.; 50,000 were placed in the Salmon River, near Albic n, 

 Oswego County, N. Y., and the remainder were placed in the 

 smaller trout streams on the Upper Hudson, near North Creek, 

 Warren County, N. Y., the terminus of the Adirondack Railroad. 

 Mr. J. W. Burdick, General Passenger Agent of the D. and H. 

 Canal Co., at Albany, very kindly gave us free transportation 

 for cans and men to Albany, and Mr. C. E. Durkee, Superintend- 

 ent of the Adirondack Railroad, offered us the same facilities 

 over his road. Very encouraging accounts of our plantings of 

 salmon in the Hudson are continually coming in. Last year over 

 fifty were taken by different persons, and this year we are hear- 

 ing of captures every day. A letter from Judge Danaher, of 

 Albany, says that some of the fish have gone above the dam at 

 Troy, and it is to be hoped that fishways will be placed there 

 this year, a bill for that purpose being now before the New York 

 Legislature. One salmon of 28^4 lbs. has been taken this spring, 



