XX REPORT OF COMMISSIONER OF FISH AND FISHERIES. 



opinion of the Fish Commissioner shall be necessary to protect the sal- 

 mon from improper capture and destruction." 



The then Commissioner of Fisheries, Prof. G. Brown Goode, after sat- 

 isfying himself that the existing legislation of Washington and Oregon 

 was in substantial compliance with the provisions of the act of appro- 

 priation, made arrangements to carry the instructions of Congress into 

 effect. 



Accordingly Mr. Livingston Stone, who had previously been in charge 

 of the salmon work on the McCloud River, California, was assigned 

 to duty and instructed to proceed to the Pacific coast and establish a 

 salmon-breeding station somewhere on the Columbia Eiver or its 

 tributaries. 



He was instructed if possible to secure the site on the Clackamas 

 Eiver, which was the property of the Washington and Oregon Fish 

 Propagating Company, and then occupied under lease by the State 

 fish commission of Oregon. 



This was accomplished after various difficulties and delays, the fish 

 propagating company having generously conveyed their property in 

 fee simple to the United States and the Oregon commissioners surren- 

 dering their lease in consideration of reimbursement for expenditures 

 incurred in the construction and equipment of the station. 



It is confidently expected that arrangements for transfer and occu- 

 pation will be completed in time to begin the collection of eggs the en- 

 suing season and thus inaugurate a work which will doubtless in time 

 contribute much to the improvement of the salmon fisheries of the 

 Columbia River. 



Michigan Stations, F. N. Clark, Superintendent. 



NORTH VI LLE STATION, MICHIGAN. 



The operations at this station during the present season have been 

 conducted, as heretofore, under the immediate direction of Mr. F. N. 

 Clark, and include the propagation and distribution of the whitefish, 

 lake trout v brook trout, California trout, brown trout, and Loch Leven 

 trout. 



The results obtained during the season with the different species have 

 been very satisfactory, and this is especially so with reference to the Cali- 

 fornia trout and brook trout. 



Whitefish. 



The hatching of the eggs of the whitefish at this station has been in- 

 termitted during the present year, and it is proposed to confine this 

 work in the future exclusively to the Alpena Station. Of the eggs ob- 

 tained, however, 30,000,000 were shipped to Northville where they were 

 overhauled, repacked, and forwarded to applicants, 15,000,000 having 

 been sent to the Pennsylvania commission, 10,000,000 to the Minnesota 

 commission, 4,000,000 to Central Station, Washington, District of Co- 



