268 DOMESTICATED TROUT. 



Atkins's Table* 



Species. Weight of fish. Number of eggs. 



Yellow Perch 3^ oz. 9,943 



River Smelt 2 oz. 25,141 



Fresh-water Smelt 10 oz. 80,000 



Whitefish (Coregonus) 2 Ibs. 25,076 



Schoodic Salmon (average) | Ib. about 600 



Sebago Salmon (full count) 2 Ibs. 10 oz. 2,368 



Number of Spawn in other Fish not mentioned in the above 

 Tables. 



Species. Weight of fish. Number of eggs. 



Herring 5! oz. 265,650 



Flounder 1,000,000 



Mullet 13,000,000 



Tench 383,250 



Bream 137,800 



Carp 66 Ibs. 342,140 



Sturgeon 200 Ibs. 7,000,000 



Pike 272,160 



The following table gives the number of salmon eggs 

 taken at the writer's establishment at Mirimichi in 1868. 

 The fish averaged in weight about nine pounds, and were 

 found to yield, like salmon everywhere else, a very uniform 

 average of 1,000 eggs to the pound, when all the eggs were 

 saved. 



October 15, 1868, 80,000 eggs from 8 salmon. 

 16, " 55,000 " " 5 " 



" 17, " 8l,500 " " 12 " 



" 20, " 8,000 " " 2 " partly spawned. 



" 21, " 53,000 " 8 " 



" 23, " 5,000 " " i " 



" 24, " 18,000 " " 3 " 



* Maine Fisheries, Report, 1869, p. 24. 



