BS REPORT OF COMMISSIONER OF FISH AND FISHERIFS. 
The following table shows the receipts from the different sections 
for 1900 and 1901, and sets forth clearly the marked decrease this 
year at all points, especially in the vicinity of the station and around 
Buzzards Bay: 
Field of collection. 1900. 1901. 
Noank and Stonington, Conn., and Block Island, R. I-......-.-........ -.-.| 2,710,000 1, 468, 000 
Woods Hole and vicinity, including Buzzards Bay --.---- - 7,199, 000 2,528, O00 
Plymouth Massy see. a= soe onan ose meee wie ana ae can a\ apa ee LS LOM UMN) 1, 181, 000 
Seituate: Mass | 82 529i. ae Le aes ee et ee Ee ee ate eee 3, 827, 000 1, 772, 000 
INOW DOD Unive te ee Mee seme ene ee en ee eee: Senne ae 13,058,000 | 11,318, 000 
Lota tee tee. 2- see ee eee . Jae ae ee as ae nee eee eee eee 28,142,000 | 18,262,000 
The total number of eggs collected was 18,262,000, from which 
13,945,000 fry were hatched and planted. Concimerible improvement 
has been made this year in the method of hatching the eggs of the 
lobster, the MeDonald jar with the open top being used in combina- 
tion with the ordinary glass aquarium, instead of the old Chester jar 
covered with serim. <A seale similar to that used in white-fish work 
was devised for the measurement of the eggs, and it was found to be 
not only more convenient, but fully as accurate as the old method of 
measuring in a glass graduate. 
CAPE VINCENT STATION, N. Y. (LIVINGSTON STONE, SUPERINTENDENT), 
A new coal-house has been built during the past year and various 
minor imprevements have been made. 
In October 68,000 lake-trout eggs were collected from the local fish- 
ermen and 1,500,000 were transferred from the Michigan and Minne- 
sota stations. In January 325,000 brook-trout eggs were purchased 
from commercial hatcheries in New England, and 21,592,000 white-fish 
eges were received from Put-in Bay, Ohio, and 720, 000 collected from 
local fishermen. The eggs were successfully hatched in the spring 
producing 1,485,000 lake trout, 275,100 brook trout, and 13,552 000 
white-fish, which were distributed as usual. 
With a view to the collection of pike-perch and sturgeon eggs in 
Vermont, the superintendent had a conference with the Vermont fish 
commissioners, which resulted in an agreement whereby the U.S. 
Fish Commission was authorized to collect eggs of these fishes in that 
State, the same to be hatched at Swanton, where a new State hatchery 
had been erected. The fry resulting from a third of the eggs were 
to be turned over to the Swanton fish commissioner for distribution in 
Vermont waters, the other two-thirds to belong to the U. S. Fish 
Jommission. 
On March 20, M. A. Mason was detailed from Cape Vincent to fit 
up the hatchery at Swanton, utilizing the old equipment as far as 
possible. The hatchery as equipped contained 348 jars, 100 of which 
were furnished by the Vermont commission, the others by the U.S. 
Fish Commission. By April 10 the ice had disappeared from the river 
