BULLETIN OF THE UNITED STATES FISH COMMISSION. 409 
61 . — REPORT UPON THE RESUETS OF SALMON PLANTING IN THE 
HUDSON RIVER. 
By FEED MATHER. 
In compliance with instructions from the U. S. Commissioner of Fish 
and Fisheries, dated July 11, 1888, I made, during the summer and fall 
of 1888, an examination of the Hudson River from its mouth to the 
tributary trout streams of Warren County, N. Y., with a view of as- 
certaining the number of adult fish captured during the last season, 
and the possibilities of taking salmon eggs in sufficient numbers to war- 
rant the establishment of a temporary station for this purpose; with the 
object of learning the character of the small streams, and determining 
which give promise of the best conditions for developing the young fish 
during their river life ; and also for the purpose of obtaining informa- 
tion respecting the height and character of the natural and artificial 
obstructions to the ascent of salmon. The results of these investiga- 
tions are herewith presented. 
PLANTINGS OF SALMON. 
With the exception of some quinnat, or chinook, salmon planted in 
the Hudson ten or a dozen years ago by the New York Fishery Com- 
mission, which have never been heard from, I believe that all the plant- 
ings of Salmo salar in the river have been made under my immediate 
supervision. 
In 1880 1 suggested to the late Prof. Spencer F. Baird, then U. S. Com- 
missioner of Fisheries, that the streams of the upper Hudson had all 
the requisites for growing young salmon, and he agreed with me that it 
might be possible that the river had never been a salmon river because 
of the natural obstructions to the ascent of the parent fish. On 
January 16, 1882, I was ordered to try to obtain a hatchery near New 
York City for the purpose of hatching salmon for the Hudson, and 
secured one from Mr. Thomas Clapham, at Roslyn, on the north side 
of Long Island, about 23 miles from the city, and in the spring planted 
225,000 fry in the streams of Warren County, as well as some in other 
waters.* 
In January, 1883, I was appointed superintendent of the new hatch- 
ing station of the New York Fishery Commission at Cold Spring Har- 
bor, Long Island, and transferred the work of salmon hatching there, 
where it has since been conducted. 
Kept. U. S. Fish Commission, 1882, p. 876. 
