198 REPORT OF THE COMMISSIONERS OF FISHERIES, GAME AND FORESTS. 



hatching trays, jars or boxes, the loss in dead eggs during the process of hatching is 

 deducted, and the result is over rather than under the number which the reports show 

 to have been planted. The measure used is the standard fluid quart of 57.75 cubic 

 inches. Eggs of the same species of fish may differ in size in fishes of different ages. 

 Brook trout (foutinalis) vary from 13,998 to 12,063 to the quart. The figures are 

 from actual counts made; the first was made in Washington at the central station of the 

 United States Fish Commission, the last was made in the State of Connecticut. 

 Brown trout (fario) vary from 8,311 to 9,935 to the quart. Perhaps the greatest 

 variation is in rainbow trout eggs (irideus). In California but 6,875 were counted in 

 a quart, while in Michigan, where the fish were introduced, 12,800 were counted from 

 a quart. The following are the average number of eggs in a quart from the fishes 

 named: Atlantic salmon, 4,272; land-locked salmon, the largest eggs of any fresh- 

 water fish that is propagated, 3,360; Pacific salmon, 3,696; Spanish mackerel, 

 1,267,728; codfish, 335,000; striped bass, 24,363 ; shad, 28,239; pike-perch, 152,294; 

 mascalonge, 73,938; whitefish, 36,800; lake trout, 5,525; tomcod, 233,280; smelt, 

 496,000; Adirondack frostfish (round whitefish), 33,000. 



The Fisheries, Game and Forest Commission hatched and planted in the public 

 waters of the State during the year 1897, 213,922,694 fish of various kinds and ages. 

 Of this number nearly 8,000,000 were trout; 50,000,000 pike-perch; 10,000,000 shad; 

 7,000,000 lobsters; 2 1,000,000 whitefish; 44,000,000 tomcod; 3,000,000 mascalonge; 



80,000 sea salmon. 



A. N. CHENEY, 



State Fish Cultiwist. 



"NOT ALL OF FISHING TO FISH. 



