REPORT OF COMMISSIONER OF FISH AND FISHERIES. 



LVII 



Table showing the number of cod eggs collected, etc. — Continued. 



Date eggs were received. 



Dec. 13. 

 14. 

 15. 

 16. 

 17. 

 19. 

 21. 

 22. 

 24. 

 27. 

 29. 

 31. 



Jan. 3. 

 5. 

 7. 

 9. 



13. 



14. 



16. 



17. 



19. 



20. 



21. 



22. 



23. 



24. 

 Feb. 4. 

 Mar. 21. 



22. 



26. 



1898. 



1899. 



Total 156,603,000 1 51,053,000 92,143,000 



Number of 



eggs 

 received. 



Loss during 

 incubation. 



3, 439, 000 

 1, 100, 000 

 9,212,000 

 7,152,000 

 3, 220, 000 

 6, 091, 000 



3, 836, 000 

 971, 000 



4, 596, 000 

 1,588,000 

 5, 164, 000 

 4, 477, 000 



3, 056, 



3, 696, 



4, 210, 

 6, 392, 

 3, 496, 

 2, 394, 



10, 160, 

 2, 297, 



1, 288. 



2, 510, 



3, 790, 

 3, 096, 



5, 617, 

 4,361, 

 1,113, 

 1, 706, 



758, 

 2, 400, 



968, 000 

 537, 000 

 910,000 

 559, 000 

 896, 000 

 928, 000 

 355, 000 

 247, 000 

 098, 000 

 479, 000 

 126, 000 

 762, 000 



343, 000 

 900, 000 

 383, 000 

 412, 000 

 704, 000 

 189, 000 

 337, 000 

 488, 000 

 532, 000 

 531, 000 

 300, 000 

 126, 000 

 614, 000 

 823, 000 

 873, 000 

 487, 000 

 239, 000 

 252, 000 



Pry hatched. 



Number. 



2, 248, 000 

 269, 000 

 2, 954, 000 

 4, 281, 000 

 2, 066, 000 

 2, 846, 000 

 2, 266, 000 

 608, 000 

 2, 199, 000 



1, 003, 000 



2, 605, 000 

 2, 272, 000 



478, 

 2, 472, 

 2,321, 

 4, 657, 

 2, 647, 

 2, 130, 

 7, 042, 

 1, 666, 



693, 

 1,758, 

 2,215, 

 2, 172, 

 3,434, 

 2,148, 



108, 

 1,062, 



497, 

 1, 895, 



Date. 



1899. 



Jan. 2 



3 



3 



5 



6 



8 



10 



12 



14 



16 



17 



19 



24 



25 



28 



29 



Feb. 2 



3 



5 



7 



8 



9 



10 



11 



12 



12 



Mar. 3 



Apr. 10 



10 



13 



Continuing the system adopted the previous season, as soon as the 

 fish had finished spawning tliey were tagged with small aluminum tags 

 and released, 597 being disposed of in this way, and at the close of the 

 fiscal year reports had been received of the capture of 17 by commercial 

 fishermen, at points along the coast from off Chatham and Georges 

 Bank on the north to Amagansett, Long Island, on the south. 



Owing to intensely cold weather from February 9 to 15, closing all 

 harbors and bays in the vicinity of the station, the fyke nets for the 

 capture of flat-fish could not be set in Waquoit Bay until February 23, 

 and then only after breaking considerable ice. Nets were also set in 

 Great and Little Woods Hole harbors. Most of the fish captured in 

 February were spent. 341 were taken at Waquoit Bay on March 11, 

 but nearly all of them had spawned. Mr. J. B. Kogers was ordered to 

 East Greenwich, 11. 1., on March 8, to collect eggs from fish taken at 

 that point. From February 26 to April 21 94,792,000 were received at 

 the station, 26,125,000 of them resulting from 90 fish taken at Waquoit, 

 29,099,000 from 81 fish captured around Woods Hole, and the remainder 

 from 145 fish taken at East Greenwich, K. I. The eggs obtained early 

 in the season, though treated as in former years, were poor, a large 

 proportion being unimpregnated. The unfertilized ones were found in 

 the middle of clusters. A number of methods were tried in handling, 

 but the best results were obtained by taking them in water in shallow 

 dishes, putting only enough eggs in a dish to cover the bottom. They 

 were then allowed to stand about two hours, at the expiration of which 



