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ARTICLE V

REPORT ON THE SCHOODIC SALMON WORK OF 1884-85

By Charles G. Atkins.

_Bulletin of the United States Fish Commission_, Vol. 5, Pages 324-325, 1885.

The measurement of the stock of Schoodic salmon eggs at Grand Lake Stream at time of packing and s.h.i.+pment, and the record of previous losses, enable me to complete the statistics, as follows:

Original number taken ...................................1,820,810 The total losses up to that time, including the unfertilized, which were removed before packing............254,410 Net stock of sound eggs..................................1,566,400 Reserved for Grand Lake....................................397,400 Available for s.h.i.+pment to subscribers ...................1,169,000

These were divided among the parties supplying the funds for the work in proportion to their contributions, as follows:

Allotted to the United States Commission...................608,000 Allotted to the Maine Commission...........................234,000 Allotted to the Ma.s.sachusetts Commission...................187,000 Allotted to the New Hamps.h.i.+re Commission...................140,000

Total....................................................1,169,000

The share of the United States Commission was a.s.signed and s.h.i.+pped, under orders, as follows:

A. W. Aldrich, commissioner, Anamosa, Iowa..................50,000 E. A. Brackett, commissioner, Winchester, Ma.s.s..............25,000 H. H. Buck, Orland, Me, to be hatched for Eagle Lake, Mount Desert....................................20,000 Paris, Mich., for Michigan commission.......................50,000 Madison, Wis., for Wisconsin commission.....................50,000 R. O. Sweeny, commissioner, Saint Paul, Minn ...............50,000 South Bend, Nebr., for Nebraska Commission..................20,000 E. B. Hodge, commissioner, Plymouth, N.H....................40,000 Cold Spring Harbor, N. Y., for New York Commission..........60,000 Plymouth, N. H., for Vermont Commission ....................25,000 Plymouth, N. H., for Lake Memphremagog .....................25,000 Central Station, Was.h.i.+ngton, D.C. ..........................10,000 R. E. Earll, World's Exposition, New Orleans ................5,000 G. W. Delawder, commissioner, Baltimore .....................5,000 Myron Battles, North Creek, N................................5,000 A. R. Fuller, Meacham Lake, N. .............................20,000

F. Mather for transmission to Europe as follows: For Herr von Behr, Germany..................................40,000 For Tay Fishery Board, Scotland.............................20,000 For National Fish Culture a.s.sociation, England..............30,000

Total to Europe.............................................90,000

Enfield, Maine for Maine Commission.........................58,000

Total......................................................608,000

A few of the s.h.i.+pments have been heard from, and these all reached their destinations safely.

BUCKSPORT, ME. March 31, 1885

ARTICLE VI

METHODS EMPLOYED AT CRAIG BROOK STATION IN REARING YOUNG SALMONID FISHES

By Charles G. Atkins, Superintendent U. S. Fish Commission Station at Craig Brook, Maine.

_Bulletin of the United States Fish Commission_, Vol. 13, Pages 221-228, 1893.

The station of the U. S. Fish Commission at Craig Brook was founded in 1889, on the same site where, in 1871, the first attempt at the artificial sp.a.w.ning of salmon in the United States was made. This site had been selected by the commissioners of fisheries of the States of Maine, Ma.s.sachusetts, and Connecticut for that experiment because of its proximity to the salmon fisheries of the Pen.o.bscot River and the facilities presented for the maturing of the sp.a.w.n that might be obtained.

The collection of sp.a.w.n has been carried on in the vicinity annually from 1871 to the present time, with the exception of the three years 1876,1877, and 1878, and since 1879 the development of the sp.a.w.n has been conducted constantly at Craig Brook. No attempt was, however, made to rear the fry of any species until 1886. Two years later it was definitely determined to found a permanent station at Craig Brook, and in 1889 the purchase of the grounds was effected and permanent improvements begun.

The station is located in the town of Orland, Me., 7 miles east of Bucksport, a seaport on the Pen.o.bscot River. Its territory embraces a tract of land extending between Allamoosook Lake and Craig Pond and embracing within its limits the entire length of Craig Brook, which connects those two bodies of water. Its lat.i.tude is about 44 degrees 42' N. The mean annual temperature and precipitation are believed to approximate those of Orono, 25 miles distant, namely, 42.48 F. [5.8 C.] and 45.44 inches [116 cm.]. The range of air temperature observed at the station is from 18 F. below zero to 92.5F. above [-27.7 C.