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Twenty -ninth Annual Report 



Year. 



Eggs Collected. 



Fry Liberated. 



1900, - 



43,290,000 



31,305,000 



1901, - 



65,377,000 



51,800,000 



1902, - 



72,410,000 



55,700,000 



1903, - 



65,940,000 



53,600,000 



1904, - 



39,000,600 



34,780,000 



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1906, - 



7,486,000 



4,406,000 



1907, - 



1,627,000 



1,282,000 



1908, - 



15,332,000 



12,296,000 



1909, - 



19,749,000 



16,615,000 



1910, - 



7,880,000 



•6,880,000 





378,801,000 



- 293,164,000 



Up to the year 1905 the adult plaice required for the breeding stock 

 were obtained by using commercial trawlers for the purpose ; since 

 then the tish have been secured by the s.s. " Goldseeker." 



In this country, and indeed in Europe generally, the practice of 

 fish-culture has not been carried to anything like the extent it has in 

 America. Last year the Bureau of Fisheries of the United States, 

 which possesses 35 hatcheries and 86 field and collecting stations, 

 dealt with no less than 3,233,393,000 of eggs, fry, fingerlings, and 

 yearlings, the number of the fry of sea fishes (cod, flounder, pollack, 

 and haddock) distributed from the marine hatcheries being 

 1,189,815,000, in addition to 163,287,000 fry of the lobster. In 

 Canada last year the number of fry distributed from the 37 fish- 

 breeding establishments amounted to 1,024,282,000, of which 

 558,000,000 represented the larvie of lobsters from the eight hatcheries 

 devoted to this crustacean. The appropriation, or vote, for fish 

 culture amounted in Canada last fiscal year to 322,300 dollars, or 

 about £67,000, while the appropriation to the United States Fishery 

 Bureau, most of which was spent on fish culture, was 823,490 dollars, 

 or about £171,560. 



The Investigations on the Herring Fishery in Lochfyne. 



Since 1904 the herring fishery in Lochfyne has been in a condition 

 of depression, which unfortunately continues. The statistics of this 

 fishery go back to the year 1854, and they show that throughout the 

 period, while there have been years and groups of years when the 

 quantity of herrings taken was much below the average, there was no 

 year when the catch was so low as in 1910, or a time when the depres- 

 sion lasted so long. The quantity landed last year was only 2665 

 crans, the smallest recorded, the lowest catch in any of the previous 

 years since 1854 being 3648 crans, in 1873. The mean annual catch 

 of herrings in Lochfyne for the period 1863-1906 was 25,180 crans, 

 and for the last eighteen years up to 1906 it was 27,375 crans, while 

 the greatest quantity taken in any one year was 56,820 crans, in 1 897, 

 since which a gradual and almost continuous decline occurred. The 

 figures for the last ten years are as follow : — 



