Report of the commissioner for 1875-1876.

  • United States Fish Commission
Date:
[1878]
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Report of the commissioner for 1875-1876. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    some private batching establishment, as that of Mr. 1ST. W. Clark, at Korthville, to collect for the United States Fish Commission and bring forward a certain number of these eggs; and for several years past shipments have been made to California, as just mentioned. In December, 1S76, 250,000 eggs were sent to Mr. B. B. Redding, the California fish commissioner, from the establishment of Mr. Clark, and reached their destination in good condition; the whole number to California amounting to 720,000. A considerable number of eggs was also sent to New Zealand, at the request of the government, a por- tion of which arrived in good order and have been successfully hatched out. One hundred thousand impregnated eggs were also sent to the Indian reservation near Keshena, in Wisconsin. After the stock of eggs was collected in 1876 on account of the United States Commission at Mr. Clark’s establishment at Northville, it was found that the appropriation was not sufficient to meet the cost of ship- ping these eggs to various localities which had been selected for the purpose, and a supply was therefore placed at the command of the fish commissioners of Michigan, by whom 300,000 were planted in Lake Erie and 1,507,000 in the inland lakes of Michigan. The Carp. The history of operations relative to the introduction of carp into the United States will be given in the next report. An account of the fish itself, with the methods of its culture, by Mr. Rudolf Hessel, will be found in the appendix.
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