Report on the Schoodic Salmon Work of 1884-85.
Reading edition
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 shipment, and the record of previous losses, enable me to complete the statistics, as follows:
Original number taken1,820,810
The total losses up to that time, including the unfertilized, which were removed before packing254,410
Net stock of sound eggs1,566,400
Reserved for Grand Lake397,400
Available for shipment to subscribers1,169,000
These were divided among the parties supplying the funds for the work in proportion to their contributions, as follows:
Allotted to the United States Commission608,000
Allotted to the Maine Commission234,000
Allotted to the Massachusetts Commission187,000
Allotted to the New Hampshire Commission140,000
Total1,169,000
The share of the United States Commission was assigned and shipped, under orders, as follows:
A. W. Aldrich, commissioner, Anamosa, Iowa50,000
E. A. Brackett, commissioner, Winchester, Mass.25,000
H. H. Buck, Orland, Me, to be hatched for Eagle Lake, Mount Desert20,000
Paris, Mich., for Michigan commission50,000
Madison, Wis., for Wisconsin commission50,000
R. O. Sweeny, commissioner, Saint Paul, Minn.50,000
South Bend, Nebr., for Nebraska Commission20,000
E. B. Hodge, commissioner, Plymouth, N.H.40,000
Cold Spring Harbor, N. Y., for New York Commission60,000
Plymouth, N. H., for Vermont Commission25,000
Plymouth, N. H., for Lake Memphremagog25,000
Central Station, Washington, D.C.10,000
R. E. Earll, World's Exposition, New Orleans5,000
G. W. Delawder, commissioner, Baltimore5,000
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, Germany40,000
For Tay Fishery Board, Scotland20,000
For National Fish Culture Association, England30,000
Total to Europe90,000
Enfield, Maine for Maine Commission58,000
Total608,000
A few of the shipments have been heard from, and these all reached their destinations safely.
Bucksport, Me. March 31, 1885