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solicitation, Professor Haird placed 200,000 of thoSe turned 

 over to bim at Havre de Grace for stocking other rivers, in 

 the Potomac at Piedmont. 



Should we be able to conduct operations on the Potomac 

 river this season, we will establish a hatching camp in some 

 protected place, and by means of the steamer attend the 

 hauling of the seines at the different points and carry the 

 eggs to this central camp. 



Our efforts were more successful at the " Head of the Bay," 

 to which point we moved on the closing of the fisheries on the 

 Potomac. Some fisheries at this point were operated some- 

 what later in the season than those on the Potomac, and after 

 they ceased, we took advantage of the hundreds of gill-nets, 

 which are nightly laid out on the " Susquehanna Flats," to 

 procure spawn. 



We established the hatching camp at Havre de Grace, 

 under the railroad bridge, where the apparatus was somewhat 

 protected by the piers of that bridge, and where the rapid 

 current at that point gave a constant circulation and change 

 of water to the eggs in the hatching boxes. 



We also established a camp at Swan Creek, near Spesutie 

 Island. Earlier in the season, however, while we were con- 

 ducting the work on the Potomac, we had established a camp 

 at Carpenters Point, in charge of William T. Wroten, one of 

 our trained men, and this was the most successful point of our 

 operations. 



Mr. Washington Barnes, who owns the fisheries at this 

 Point, operates throughout the season two large seines, about 

 1,100 fathoms in length each, and as he appreciated the 

 future benefit to be derived from the artificial propagation of 

 Shad, gave every facility to our men to take the spawn from 

 the ripe fish as these seines were landed. 



During the season, as will be seen from the table showing 

 the operations at this point, 1,660,000 fish were hatched. Of 

 these, 822,500 were turned loose in the North-East river, and 

 under our arrangements with Professor Baird, 837,500 were 

 turned over to him for shipment to other waters. 



