On April 11, 1884, the first recorded planting of brown trout (Salmo fario) in the United States was made in the Pere Marquette River system by the Northville, Michigan, Federal Fish Hatchery. The trout eggs from which 4,900 fry were planted had been obtained from Baron Friedrich Von Behr of Berlin, Germany, by Fred Mather, superintendent of the Cold Spring Harbor Federal Fish Hatchery at Long Island, New York. Although some brown trout eggs had been shipped to the United States and distributed to various fisheries in 1883 for observation, the Northville station was the first to stock American waters with the fish. From this beginning, the species, known in Germany as Bachforelle, became widely established throughout the United States.