3 -REPORT OF DISTRIBUTION OF FISH AND EGGS BY THE 

 U. S. FISH COMMISSION FROM JULY 1, 1887, TO JUNE 30, 

 1888, 



The aggregate number of fish and eggs distributed by the U. S. Fish 

 Commission, as collated from the reports of stations, in the period 

 comprised between July 1, 1887, and June 30, 1888, was 238,986,117, an 

 increase of more than twenty-eight millions over the distribution dur- 

 ing the eighteen months preceding this period. The distribution by 

 species is shown in the following summary, from which it will be seen 

 that the species receiving most attention, named in the order of their 

 importance, are the shad, the whitefish, the cod, and the salmon. 



Summary of distribution for the year ending June 30, 1888. 



Species. 



Atlantic salmon (Salmo salar) 



Landlocked salmon (Salmo salar subsp. sebago) 



Brook trout (Salvelinus fontinalis) 



Rainbow trout (Salmo irideus) 



Brown trout (Salmo fario) 



Loch Leven trout (Salmo levenensis) 



Lake trout (Salvelinus namaycush) 



Salbling (Salvelinus alpinus) 



Whitefish ( Gorcgonus clupeiformis) 



Shad (Olupea sapidissima) 



Codfish ( Oadus morrhua) 



Lobster (Homarus americanus) 



Flounders (Paralichthys dentatus) 



Carp ( Oyprinus carpio) 



Goldfish (Carassius auratus) 



Red-eye perch (Ambloplites rupestris) 



Black bass (Micropterus dolomieu) ... 



Total 



No. of eggs. 



924, 000 



345, 000 



215, 000 



341, 000 



5,000 



50, 000 



547, 000 



7,417 



32, 412, 000 



39, 095, 000 



189,432 



196. 000 



74, 326, 849 



No. of fish. 



459, 200 

 45, 400 

 31, 286 



155, 856 

 55,010 



105, 760 



19, 300, 000 



134,631,000 



9, 470, 640 



614 



220, 000 



175,410 



5,437 



3,105 



5M) 



164, 659, 268 



Total. 



1, 383, 000 



390, 400 



246, 286 



496, 856 



60,010 



50, 000 



652, 760 



7,417 



51,712,000 



173, 726, 000 



9, 660, 072 



196, 614 



220, 000 



175, 410 



5,437 



3,105 



550 



238,986,117 



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