Excerpt from Report of the Commissioner, Vol. 23: For the Year Ending June 30, 1897
I have the honor to submit a report of the operations of the United States Commission of Fish and Fisheries for the year ending June 30, 1807, with reports from the assistants in charge of its different divisions, showing the work in detail, together with an appendix describing the methods of fish-culture pursued by the Commission.
The work of the Division of Fish-Culture has been very satisfactory, showing a gratifying increase in the propagation and distribution of the important food-fishes. In addition to the stations mentioned last year, those at San Marcos,Tex., Manchester, Iowa, and Bozeman,Mont,, have been completed and are now in operation.
Attention has been paid to carrying out the policy outlined in my former report, of increasing the production of the commercial species propagated by the Commission on the Atlantic and Pacific coasts and the Great Lakes, by establishing auxiliary hatcheries in connection with the permanent stations, for the extension of the field for the collection of eggs. The use of Battle Creek Station, Shasta County. Cal., obtained through the cooperation of the California Fish Commission, resulted in the collection of over 25,000,000 salmon eggs in addition to the 5,000.000 collected at Baird Station. In the Columbia River Basin the plants of fry were increased by the establishment of temporary stations on the Salmon River in Oregon and the Little White Salmon River in Washington, the two stations yielding over 4,700,000 eggs.
The total collection at the Pacific stations, amounting to 37,000,000, was over three times greater than the collection of any previous season. 5.000,000 quinnat-salmon eggs were transferred to eastern stations, and the fry resulting front them were planted in the Hudson, Delaware, and St. Lawrence rivers, New York, ami the Penobscot and Union rivers, Maine. Additional assignments of steelhead eggs were also sent east, and plants of the fry were made in the Penobscot and Hudson rivers and tributaries of Lakes Michigan and Superior.
The cod work at the Massachusetts stations was the most extensive ever accomplished by the Commission, over 178,000,000 eggs being collected. 97,410,000 fry were hatched and liberated on the natural spawning grounds by means of the steamer Fish Hack and sailing vessels chartered for the purpose.
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