12 FISH COMMISSIONERS’ REPORT. Jan., 
State. Contribution. Quota of Eggs. 
Maines ios it & enero 00000 1,080,000 
Massachusetts, - - 500.00 270,000 
Connecticut, - - - 300.00 162,000 
United States, - - P75 7.34 950,000 
$4,557.34 2,462,000 
These will be ready for distribution in January and February. 
The Penobscot establishment has been, for the last three years, 
under the immediate charge of Mr. H. H. Buck, of Orland, to 
whom credit is due for the conception and execution of many 
details in our fixtures and methods, as well as for general prompt 
and efficient management. 
At the Schoodic Establishment we have not had this year quite 
average success. The data showing the number of fish handled 
have not yet been worked up, and I cannot now state the number 
either of males or females. The crop of eggs secured amounts to 
about 900,000. This is the smallest number secured any year ex- 
cepting 1876, when we got but 543,000 eggs. A small run of fish 
was not anticipated this year. The spring and summer fishing was 
unusually fine, which was supposed to prove great abundance of 
fish, but may have been simply the result of unusually favorable 
conditions for capturing them. We may have reason to regard a 
great slaughter of fish in the spring as an unfavorable circumstance. 
At least this point is clear as arithmetic, that if there are ten thou- 
sand fish in the lake and other people take eight thousand of them 
there are but two thousand left for us. 
The apparent abundance of fish in the fall of 1880 and spring of 
1881, had so much of encouragement in it as to warrant prepgra- 
tion for a heavier run this season. The hatching house at the cove 
near the lake, which was commenced in December, 1880, was com- 
pleted, with an addition which more than doubles its size, an 
aqueduct laid which will double the supply of water, and additional 
apparatus provided, so that we were in condition to take care of 
three millions of eggs had we secured them. Such an event is 
not at all unlikely to happen, and there is no occasion to regret the 
expenditure required by the new house. Itis by far the best house — 
of its kind we have ever had at either establishment. It covers 
about 1,500 square feet of cement floors, arranged at seven differ- 
ent elevations, with a fall of eight feet from the highest to the 
