3-REPORT OF DISTRIBUTION OF FISH AND EGGS FROM 
JULY 1, 1888, TO JUNE 30, 1889. 
The number of fish and eggs distributed from July 1, 1888, to June 
30, 1889, was 348,557,230, an increase of nearly 108,000,000 over the 
aggregate shipments during the preceding year. The details of the 
work are shown in the Summary of Distribution, from which it will be 
seen that important additions have been made to the list of species sent 
out and noteworthy changes in the character of the fishes deposited. 
For example, almost a half million 1-year-old fishes were included 
in this distribution ; among them were nearly 100,000 rainbow trout, 
29,000 lake trout, besides many thousands of brook trout, Atlantic 
salmon, landlocked salmon, wall-eyed pike, red-eye perch, white bass, 
black bass, crappie, buffalo, and catfish. Of the 33 species distributed 
the 12 which were furnished in the greatest number were whitefish, 
shad, wall-eyed pike, cod, sheepshead, sea bass, California salmon, pol- 
lock, lak^trout, Atlantic salmon, lobster, and landlocked salmon, which 
were deposited in numbers ranging from over 800,000 of the last- 
named to more than 135,000,000 of the first-mentioned. 
It will be observed that a great many new and valuable species have 
been added to the list, among them the wall-eyed pike, of which more 
than 50,000,000 were hatched ; the sheepshead, which were deposited 
in Florida waters to the number of 14,000,000 ; and a great many of 
the fishes indigenous to the Mississippi Yalley, such as red-eye perch, 
spotted catfish, buffalo, crappie, white bass, black bass, pickerel, and 
white perch, or fresh-water drum. The yearling fishes rescued from 
lakes and sloughs caused by overflow of the Mississippi River, and in- 
cluded in the distribution for 1889, aggregated nearly 100,000. . These 
were collected at Quincy, 111., and widely distributed in suitable waters. 
In shipping California salmon eggs from Baird station to the Cali- 
fornia State hatchery at Sisson, a new form of transportation box was 
used, a description of which will be found elsewhere in this report. 
The transplanting of lobsters to the Pacific coast was continued in 
1889, and upward of 200 adults, of which 54 were egg-bearing females, 
were carried to Puget Sound. 
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