288 



DOMESTICATED TROUT. 



Atkins's Table* 



Species* 



Weight of 6sh. Number of eggs. 



Yellow Perch j£ oz. 



River Smelt 2 oz. 



Fresh-water Smelt 10 oz. 



Whitefish ( Coregonus) 2 lbs. 



Schoodic Salmon (average) £ lb. 



9.943 



25,141 



80,000 



25,076 



about 600 



Sebago Salmon (full count) 2 lbs. 10 oz. 2,368 



Number of Spawn in other Fish not mentioned in the above 

 Tables. 



The following table gives the number of salmon eggs 

 taken at the writer's establishment at Mirimichi in 1868. 

 The fish averaged in weight about nine pounds, and were 

 found to yield, like salmon everywhere else, a very uniform 

 average of 1,000 eggs to the pound, when all the eggs were 

 saved. 



October 15, 18 



" 16, ' 



" 17. ' 



" 20, • 



« 21, ' 



" 23, ' 



*' 24, ' 



80,000 eggs from 8 salmon. 



55,000 " " 5 



81,500 ". " 12 



8,000 " " 2 



53,000 " " 8 



5,000 '* " I 



18,000 " *' 3 



partly spawned. 



* Maine Fisheries, Report, 1869, p. 24. 



