DEPARTMENT OF FISHERIES,

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The following is the schedule of eggs collected in 1888 :—
No. Name of Hatchery. Province. No. of Eggs. Species.
1
2
3
4
56
'1
8
9
10
11
12
Fraser River
do ..
Sydney
Bedford ..
Dunk River
St. John River.
Miramichi ....
Ristigouche ....,
Gaspé.
Tadoussac
Magog
Newcastle
do
do
do
Sandwich ..
do .,
British Columbia
do
Nova Scotia, (C. B.).
do do..
Prince Edward Island....
New Brunswick
do
Quebec
do ..
do
do
Ontario
do
do ..
do
do
do ..
4,424,000
497,000
2,678,000
1,100,000
830,000
1,500,000
350,000
1,685,000
5,800,000
150,000
3,000,000
1,200,000
40,000,000
35,000,000
9214,000
Salmon (Saw-quai).
Salmon (Quinnat).
Salmon (&zlar).
do do
do
do
do
do
do
do
do
do
Salmon trout (Namaycush).
Brook trout (Fontinali.).
Whhefish (Coreouua).
Black bass (Small Mouth).
Whitefish (Coreponus).
Pickerel, dorS (Lucioperca).
GRAND TOTAL OF PRY PUT OUT OF TILE ILATCIHERIES SINCE THE INDUSTRY OF FISK
BREEDING COMMENCED IN CANADA.
The following schedule will show the gross number of all kinds of fry which
have been turned out of each hatchery in the Dominion since their commencement;
the table will give the year in which each nursery began operations; also the
Province, and the local name by which each hatchery is designated, and the output
of fry from each of them annually. The grand total of young fish as shown in the
table is six hundred and thirtysix millions eight hundred and forty-four thousand nine
Aundred. They were comprised of the best known commercial fishes in the country;
463,709,000 were of the salmonoid family; such as salmon of the sea, salmon-trout of
the great lakes, speckled trout of the streams, and famous whitefish (coregoni); the
balance, or 1'13,135,900, were of the percidie family; such as the lake pickerel, doré
or wall-eyed pike, and small mouth black bass.