DEPARTMENT OF FISHERIES,

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A STATEMENT
showing the daily operations of Collecting Salmon Trout Eggs at
Wiarton during the Season of 188.
umber of Fish
from which
Spawn was collected
a d
1 erate
Number of
——.-— — -— collected.
0 0
° Males. Females
6
jured
or dead in Number of
nets. Eggs GENERAL REMARKS.
Nov. 1 .... . ...... Arrived at Wiarton, with men, 4.30 p.m..
Capt. Allan had not completed 3rd net,
owing to rough weather; no fish in
nets; blowing hard.
do 2...
Blowing hard and raining all day.
41O 3...
Fine weather; Capt. drove 15 stakes for
net No. 3
do 4...
Blowing hard; intended going down to
inspect nets, but water too rough to go
in tug.
do 5... 2 25 125 12 5 17 400,000 Weather very fine; upwards of 500 fish in
nets; Allan will complete No. 3 net
this p.m. if weather remains favorable.
do 6 . . ..... Did not lift; fish not ripe; No. 3 net
completed.
do 7... 2 48 186 17 3 19 600,000 Weather fine; guardians saw 3 men about
to take fish irom nets, but on seeing
them they rowed away quickly
8... Blowing a gale a.Ad raining all day;
could not lilt.
do 9 ...... .. . Blowing very fresh; sea too high to attempt
to lift nets; raw and cold.
do 10... 3 60 210 23 5 14 700,0.0 Raining; very few fish in 3rd net; guardians
have not seen any poscbing.
do:11... . ...... ...... . Blowing and raining; slight fall of snow
in afternoon.
do 12... 2 47 190 37 2 21 650,000 Guardians report no poaching going on.
do 13 ..... ...... Fine weather; fish in nets not ripe for
spawning.
do 14... 2 37 120 41 ..... 17 500,000 Warm, but windy; not nearly as many
fish in nets as at this date last fall.
do15... 1 15 60 27 1 15 200,000 Fine warm day; the "Gravelly" Point
net is the only one that is of much account
this year.
do 16... 1 35 80 31 ...... 12 300,000 Snowing; only a small number of fish in
the nets.
do 17... 2 10 30 20 11 100,000 Fish not ripe; 2 inches snow fell; cold
and freezing.
do 18 . ...., Cold and snowing most of day.
do 19... 2 57 187 69 2 16 SCO,000 A large prcportion of these spawned
fish had previously been liberated, but
found their way back into the nets;
scarcity of small fish.
do 20... . . ..... .. . Cold and clear, 18°; necessary to tak.
extra precautions with eggs, to keep
from freezing while lifting nets and
spawning fish.
do 21... 3 41 91 37 1 11 200,000 Freezing hard, 2° below zero; men suffered
intense cold.
do 22 ..... ... Left Newcastle for Wiarton.
do 23... 2 31 112 39 ...,.. 14 250,000 Bad lookout for getting many more eggs;
only a few fish in nets; very cold lifting
and spawning.
do 24 . ...... . Blowing hard and freezing; could not
lilt on ths account.
do 25
Snowing and freezing.
do 26
.Too rough to lift; blowing a gale of wind..