LXXYII 
NAME OP FISII. 
1874. 
1875. 
1876. 
1877. 
1878. 
1879. 
TOTAL. 
California Salmon..... 
144,000 
91,500 
1.088,304 
■ 150.500 
710,600 
312,236 
2,497,140 
Shad 
4,150,000 
2,724.000 
7,419,300 
8,285.000 
7,757,000 
30.335.300 
Land Locked Salmon. . 
22,600 
40,781 
26,500 
89,881 
fr-melt, 
3,475 
400.000 
403,475 
Brook Trent 
50,480 
234,500 
47.000 
331,980 
German Carp 
6,135 
6,135 
Totals 
144.000 
4.241.500 
3,838,379 
8.020,280 
9,270,881 
8,148,871 
33 663,911 
It will be seen that 33,663,911 fish have been added by ar- 
tificial means to the waters of the State. Of course many of 
these have been planted as a matter of experiment and nothing 
more may ever be heard of them, but each of the varieties ex- 
perimented with is of such importance that the possibility of 
a success would warrant the small amount expended on these 
experiments. The main efforts of the commission have been 
directed towards the propagation of the salmon, shad and Ger- 
man carp. Of the last two, we are absolutely certain of the great 
benefits which will be derived. By referring to the only three 
statements which we have given, those showing the number 
of shad recorded, as taken in the seines operated at the head 
of the Bay, as shipped from Havre de Grace, and as inspected 
in Washington, it will be seen that the increase of shad alone 
at these points, in the year 1879 over the year previous, 
amounts to 285,874. It is reasonable to infer that the same 
increase has taken place in other localities ; but did this show 
the whole increase, and if we value the shad at ten cents each, 
the increase would represent the sum of $28,587.40, almost 
three times the annual appropriation for fish culture by the 
State. This would indicate that our citizens are already de- 
riving adequate results, even if the labors of the commission 
were limited to the propagation of shad alone. As we have 
before mentioned, shad ascend the rivers only after they have 
become adult and are ready to spawn. Therefore the increase 
of fish in any one year, until a sufficient time has elapsed for 
the second generation from those hatched artificially, to return, 
is to be credited to one year’s operations only, as the increase 
of the shad in 79 is most likely attributable solely to the re- 
turn of those propagated in 7 6. The work of the succeeding 
