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REPORT OF COMMISSIONER OF FISH AND FISHERIES. 15 
The weighing and measuring of 825 mature salmon (312 males and 
513 females) gives the following: 
Average weight of males.pounds. 3.98 {| Average length of males.-.inches. 21. 30 
Averago weight of females..do... 3.91 | Average length of females..do... 20. 60 
Weight of heaviest male..-.do-.. 6.00 | Length of longest male --... do... 26.00 
Weight of heaviest female. -do--- 50 | Length of longest female. -...do... 24. 00 
Weight of lightest male. - -.- copes 91 | Length of shortest male ---. do... 16. 00 
Weight of lightest female. --.do--. 00 | Length of shortest female...do... 17. 00 
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At the close of the fishing season in November, 1889, a new depar- 
ture was made, being the restripping of the fish prior to their liberation 
from the inclosures. Most of the females were found to contain eggs, 
the aggregate amounting to 33 pounds, or about 75,000 in number. In 
development these eggs proved to be quite as good as those taken pre- 
viously. . 
1890-91. 
Active work was begun October 29, 1890, and between that date and 
November 15, 510 landlocked salmon were captured. Of this number 
371 were foiates: which yielded 778,796 eggs. In March, 1891, there 
remained 649,906 good eggs, of act 163,000 were ered for hAien 
ing and fpeeation | in local waters, and 29 000 turned over to the Maine 
fish commissioners. The remainder, 456,900 eggs, were mainly con- 
signed to various fish-hatcheries, national, State, and private, enumer- 
ated in the details of distribution; the eggs reserved were hatched, and 
in June the fry were released in local waters, with the exception of 
50,600, which were held in rearing troughs beyond the present year. 
Two thousand of the fry retained were derived from eggs taken at the 
final stripping of the brood salmon prior to their release in November, 
1890, and were placed apart for purposes of observation. They w ae 
discovered to suffer a less mortality during June than the others; the 
death rate during that month among the larger number being 15 to 
each 2,000, while the loss of these 2,000 fish obtained from the late eggs 
Was pat 3d. A portion of the eggs which produced the fry under con- 
sideration must have remained in the parent fish nearly a month 
subsequent to the dates when the brood fish were first relieved of their 
spawn. 
CRAIG BROOK STATION, MAINE (CHARLES G. ATKINS, SUPERINTWNDENT). 
In the report for 1889 reference was made to the intention to establish 
a permanent station at this point and to purchase the property then 
under lease. Congress by act approved March 2, 1889, having appro- 
priated $11,000 “ for the purchase of ground, construction of buildings 
and ponds, and purchase of equipment of fish-hatchery and rearing 
stations near Craig Brook, Reed Pond, and Branch Pond, Maine;” 
and the agreement of the owner of the Craig Brook property to sel! the 
same to the United States having been obtained, the Attorney-General 
was requested to have the title examined and the proper transfer made. 
