REPORT OF COMMISSIONER OF FISH AND FISHERIES. LXXXI 



were planted on May 25 in the headwaters on the Huron Eiver, in Oak- 

 land County, Michigan. 



k. The Schoodic or landlocked Salmon (Salmo aalar subsp. sebago). 



The Grand Lake Stream Station. — This station, which continues in charge 

 of Mr. Charles G. Atkins, was eminently successful during 1883. Dur- 

 ing the fishing season which existed from October 29 to November 20 

 there were taken only 1,005 fish, of which 709 were females and 296 males. 

 As with the salmon, however, they proved to be large and prolific. 

 From the 661 females found to be ripe 1,070,500 eggs were secured, an 

 average of 1,623 to each female. The heaviest female weighed 8.8 

 pounds, and the heaviest male 5.4 pounds. The new hatchery, which 

 was erected in 1882, proved very useful, and the eggs taken were 

 divided between the two hatcheries, the one fed by spring water and 

 the other by lake water. After the removal of the unfertilized and other 

 imperfect eggs, there remained 960,000 for use. Of these 240,000 were 

 set aside as a reserve, 373,000 assigned to the United States, 133,500 

 to Maine,133,500 to Massachusetts, and 80,000 to New Hampshire, this 

 being in proportion to the funds contributed by each. 



From the United States quota, 5,000 eggs were sent to New York, 

 and forwarded by Mr. Fred Mather, by the steamer Baltic, to Sir James 

 G. Maitland, Stirling, Scotland. The remainder of the United States lot 

 was assigned to State commissioners, some thirteen different States 

 sharing in the distribution. In general, these eggs reached their des- 

 tination in good order, and were successfully hatched and deposited in 

 suitable waters, the full details of which will be found in a table ap- 

 pended to Mr. Atkins's report. 



It has so far proved almost impossible to meet the call for eggs or 

 young of this fish. 



I. The European Trout (Salmo fario). 



Eggs of this species were received from Mr. Yon Behr, the president 

 of the Deutsche Fischerei-Verein, in the winter of 1882-'83, and were 

 sent directly from New York to the station at Northville, where they 

 arrived on February 18. The eggs were successfully hatched out by 

 Mr. Clark by the middle of March, and early in April were planted by 

 him in a branch of the Pere Marquette Eiver of Northern Michigan. 



The European trout is an excellent table fish, and attains a much 

 larger growth than the species found in the United States, a weight of 

 from 10 to 20 pounds being not unusual. It is hoped that it may be 

 available for some localities not so well fitted for the brook trout, 

 where, by its rapid growth and the size to which it attains, it may con- 

 stitute an important article of food. 



ni. The Quiunat or California Salmon (Oncorhynchus chouicha). 



The McGloud Eiver Station.^ — An unprecedented and unforeseen con- 

 dition of things was experienced at this station during the present 

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