REPORT OP COMMISSIONER OP PISH AND FISHERIES. XXIII 
85,906 died during development. The remainder were divided among 
the subscribers, as follows: U. S. Fish Commission, 1,527,600; Mas- 
sachusetts, 290,000; Maine, 350,000; reserved at Craig’s Brook for 
rearing, 132,600; packed and shipped as indicated in the tables of 
distribution, 1,395,000. 
The following stock of fish and embryos were retained for breeding : 
Atlantic salmon: 
One year old 1, 520 
In the egg t 109, 965 
Landlocked salmon : 
One year old 80 
In the egg 26, 191 
Rainbow tront in the egg 2, 500 
Brook trout in the egg 4, 000 
Total 144,256 
Forty open-air troughs were added to the accommodations. Arrange- 
ments were made to feed them on maggots and chopped meat, the use 
of entomostraca, insect larvm, etc., having been abandoned because of 
the expense involved in getting them. The fish began to feed June 1. 
Fungus did not make its appearance, and the loss in this month was 
unusually small. • 
Five thousand eggs of the Atlantic salmon were sent from Craig’s 
Brook to Mr. E. G. Blackford, New York, for transshipment to Quito, 
Ecuador. 
Coregonus albula . — Of this little German whitefish, 51,000 one month 
old were planted in Heart Pond, Maine, April 21, 1888, by Mr. Atkins. 
Atlantic salmon . — The distribution of young salmon of thi^ species 
was as follows : 1888, October 16, to December 15, 13,498 six to eight 
months old in tributaries of the Alamoosook Lake, Orland, Maine. 
May 3, 1889, 310 one year Old, same waters. 
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GLOUCESTER STATION, MASSACHUSETTS. 
The active operations at this station, which is under the superin- 
tendency of E. M. Robinson, are confined to the Avinter and early 
spring. During the rest of the year it is closed and in charge of a 
custodian. The station was occupied with a working force about the 
middle of October, necessary repairs made, and equipment overhauled 
and put in order. 
Cod . — On November 3, the first codfish eggs were taken, and the 
work continued until March 15, 1889. The percentage of loss was very 
large, which was attributed to the fact that many of the eggs were 
killed by exposure to severe weather ; moreover, frequent storms roiled 
the water, and mud in suspension, being carried into the hatching boxes, 
adhered to the eggs and destroyed their buoyancy. Total number of 
eggs taken, 45,000,000 ; lost in incubation, 28,000,000; transferred to 
the Wood’s Holl Station, 6,000,000. Eleven million young were hatched 
and planted in Gloucester Harbor, near Eastern Point. 
