DEPARTMENT OF FISHERIES,

7
GROSS NUMBER AND DESCRIPTION OF FRY PUT OUT OF THE
CANADIAN HATCHERIES IN 1888.
The following statement will show the numbers of young fish of all kinds that
were hatched, and turned out from the several fish hatcheries in the Dominion of
Canada during the year 1888. The quantity will be found to be in excess of any
previous year. The classification and species were as lollows :—
Atlantic salmon (salmo salar) 8,156,000
Pacific salmon (quinnat and saw-qual) 5,807,000
Salmon trout (Great Lake) (Namaycush) 7,320,000
Brook trout (salmofontinalis). 176,000
Pickerel (doré) (lucioperca)..... 25,000,000
Black bass (small mouth) 1,000,000
Whitefish ((Joregonus albus) . 40,650,000
Grand total 88,109,000
The reports from the several officers in charge of the hatcheries give the most
satisfactory accounts of the healthy and active state of the fry when planted in the
several waters s6lected for them; the losses in transportation were so very trifling as
to be almost unworthy of mention, although in a great many instances the places
where they had to be carried to were at long distances from the hatcheries, and.
many difficulties on the journeys had to be overcome.
SCHEDULE OP PRY ANt) SEMIHATCHED EGGS PUT OUT OF EACH HATCHERY IN 1888.
A statement is here given of the numbers, and kinds of fry, and eyed-eggs far
advanced itt development, that were distributed from the individual hatcheries into
various waterF, and transferred to other hatcheries; the particular waters in which
the young fish wefe planted will be more particularly described in the several
reports of the officers in charge of the individual hatcheries, in the Appendices
hereto attached.
SCHEDULE of Pry and Eyed-eggs, 1888.
Hatchery. Province. Fry put out.
Eyed-eggs
transfred
Hatcheries.
Species.
1 Fraser River. British Oolumbia
do do ...
2 Sydney ..
Nova Scotia
3 Bedford do ....
do ... do
do
do
4 Dunk River P. B. Island.
5 St. John River New Brunswick.
do do ...
do do ...
6 Miramichi do ...
Ristigouche. Quebec
7
8 Gaspé do ,
9 Tadoussac do ...
10 Magog do .
do
do
11 Newcastle Ontario
do . do
do
do
do do -
12 Sandwich
do
do do .
Total Fry put out.
5,370,000
437,000
1,559,000
1,400,000
190,000
2,800,C00
537,000
805,000
2,800,000
1,290,000
1,720,000
800,000
850,000
2,125.000
1,350,000
4,200,000
176,000
2,700,000
1,000,000
31,000,000
25,000,000
88,109,000
.
.
.
.
Salmon (&erlca).
do (Chouicha).
do (&zlar).
do do
Salmon-trout (Namaycush).
-. Whitefish ((Joregonus).
750,000 Salmon (Sir).
. do do
... Salmon-trout (LVamaycush).
Whitefish (C(regonus).
Salmon (Salar).
50,000 do do
do do
. 4,040,000
11,000,000
. ....
do do
Salmon-trout (Namaycush).
Whitefish (Coreqonus).
Salmon-trout (L'Tamaycush).
Brook-trout (Fontinalis).
Whitefish (tjoregonus).
Black Bass (Small Mouth).
Whitefish (Coregonus).
Pickerel, Doré (Luciopercha).