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1 90 1. These figures include a few eggs transferred to State 

 Commissions which planted the resultant fry : 



Cod 



Winter Flounder 



Lobster . 



Shad 



Quinnat Salmon 

 Atlantic Salmon 

 Blueback Salmon 

 Silver Salmon . 

 Steelhead Trout 



202,871,000 

 44,230,000 

 60,879,000 



193,287,000 

 19,441,784 



397>30o 



3^834.453 



300,041 



370.758 

 525,611,336 



Very respectfully, 



H. M. Smith, 



Acting Commissioner. 

 Mr. R. B. Marston, 



Editor of the Fishing Gazette, 



St. Dunstan's House, Fetter Lane, 

 London, E.G., England. 



Splendid Results from Shad Culture in the United 



States 



Shad were becoming extinct or very scarce in the rivers 

 of New England when the late Mr. Seth Green discovered 

 how to hatch shad eggs. His experiments were so successful 

 that the fish, from being a luxury obtainable only by the few, 

 is now " the best and cheapest of all American fish." " It 

 is now ' planted ' by the State hatcheries, and on an enormous 

 scale, over two hundred and nine million shad eggs having 

 been received by the various hatcheries in 1898 ; and the 

 catch, which in 1880 was already five million fish and in 

 1888 was over ten millions, has now reached seventeen millions. 

 Before 1871 the shad was unknown upon the Pacific. In that 

 year a few thousand fry were liberated in the Sacramento 



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