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 taken | 1,820,810 |
| The total losses up to that time, including the unfertilized, which were removed before packing | 254,410 |
| Net stock of sound eggs | 1,566,400 |
| Reserved for Grand Lake | 397,400 |
| Available for shipment to subscribers | 1,169,000 |
These were divided among the parties supplying the funds for the work in proportion to their contributions, as follows:
| Allotted to the United States Commission | 608,000 |
| Allotted to the Maine Commission | 234,000 |
| Allotted to the Massachusetts Commission | 187,000 |
| Allotted to the New Hampshire Commission | 140,000 |
| Total | 1,169,000 |
The share of the United States Commission was assigned and shipped, under orders, as follows:
| A. W. Aldrich, commissioner, Anamosa, Iowa | 50,000 |
| E. A. Brackett, commissioner, Winchester, Mass. | 25,000 |
| H. H. Buck, Orland, Me, to be hatched for Eagle Lake, Mount Desert | 20,000 |
| Paris, Mich., for Michigan commission | 50,000 |
| Madison, Wis., for Wisconsin commission | 50,000 |
| R. O. Sweeny, commissioner, Saint Paul, Minn. | 50,000 |
| South Bend, Nebr., for Nebraska Commission | 20,000 |
| E. B. Hodge, commissioner, Plymouth, N.H. | 40,000 |
| Cold Spring Harbor, N. Y., for New York Commission | 60,000 |
| Plymouth, N. H., for Vermont Commission | 25,000 |
| Plymouth, N. H., for Lake Memphremagog | 25,000 |
| Central Station, Washington, D.C. | 10,000 |
| R. E. Earll, World's Exposition, New Orleans | 5,000 |
| G. W. Delawder, commissioner, Baltimore | 5,000 |
| 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, Germany | 40,000 |
| For Tay Fishery Board, Scotland | 20,000 |
| For National Fish Culture Association, England | 30,000 |
| Total to Europe | 90,000 |
| Enfield, Maine for Maine Commission | 58,000 |
| Total | 608,000 |
A few of the shipments have been heard from, and these all reached their destinations safely.
Bucksport, Me. March 31, 1885