142 
of ten or fifteen years ago in the blush of its first success- 
ful experiments has not entirely faded away, but has rip- 
ened into a deep conviction on the part of an ever-increas- 
ing number of intelligent men, that fishculture has solved 
one half of the question, Can the fisheries be preserved ? 
and has now settled down upon business-like principles 
and methods to do its part. The other half of that ques- 
tion must depend for its answer upon wise measures for 
protection. This is true of almost every State and Terri- 
tory in the Union.’’ The appropriations for 1883 and 1884 
were ten thousand dollars for building and equipping new 
stations, and ten thousand dollars a years for current ex- 
penses. 
In August, 1885, Mr. Lyman A. Brant was appointed 
statistical agent for the Board and visited all the commer- 
cial fisheries of the State, and made a full report in writing 
of his work, which was much the best of its kind that had 
thus far been done, and afforded the Commission much 
needed information. 
The whitefish plant for 1885 was forty millions, and for 
1886 was sixty-one million six hundred and twenty thou- 
sand; afew Loch Leven trout were planted and the plants of 
California trout were continued, but the adult fish did not 
do well in the stock ponds, and many of them were liber- 
ated. Further experiments with the grayling were con- 
tinued ; a large portion of a grayling stream was stocked 
with them and barriers erected to prevent their escape, 
and every inducement provided for them to spawn in a 
semi-wild or natural state, but the experiment was a fail- 
ure. Additional ponds were built at the Paris station and 
the grounds otherwise improved by grading and sodding. 
Further agitation was given to the question of the Upper 
Peninsula whitefish station. A scheme of systematic ex- 
amination of all the inland waters of the State seriatim 
was inaugurated. For this purpose a double crew of men 
was sent into the field, and charts of each lake examined 
