64 FISH AND GAME. 



RECOMMENDATIONS. 



Fish Distribution. Again the necessity of having additional men to 

 aid in fish distribution is apparent, especially in view of the fact that this 

 service occurs at the busiest time of the year as far as law enforcement 

 is concerned. Men engaged in the work of fish distribution and fish 

 salvage should be other than the regular district deputies. 



During 1916 fish distribution has required the services of pur regular 

 district deputies to the following extent : 



(a) During May and June, the open season on trout, the entire time 

 of six deputies for the distribution of trout fry and white perch. 



(6) During July the entire services of three men in putting out yellow 

 and pike perch, bass and bullheads were necessary, as well as the occasional 

 assistance of others. 



(c) During September and October, the most valuable time of the year 

 as far as the law enforcement is concerned, the services of seven deputies 

 were required for salmon and trout distribution, leaving the districts 

 without patrol for weeks at a time. 



The regular men should be continuously on duty in their districts, which, 

 of course, would not necessarily prevent their meeting and properly 

 handling all shipments. The new fish distribution men when not em- 

 ployed on fish work could be utilized as assistants to the district deputies. 



They could also be used to good advantage in substituting them for 

 the men assigned to regular districts, when they are absent from time to 

 time. We are considering the advisability of temporary assignments of 

 these men to new work for the value of experience. For example, let a 

 man who has worked inland most of the time put in a month on the shore, 

 etc.; also let each deputy spend a week or more each season at a bird 

 farm or fish hatchery, in order to permit him to more fully understand the 

 work. We expect our men to take an increasingly active part in our 

 educational work as well as in constructive field work in their districts, 

 and their sojourns at the stations will be a great help to them. 



Exhibitions. Two or three deputies on an average are taken from 

 their regular work for the purpose of directing eight to ten educational 

 exhibits and displays during September. Extra men should be employed 

 for this work rather than so occupy the district deputies. 



Power Boat. The boat now owned by the Commission is quite in- 

 adequate to meet the demands of the present work. A semi-cruiser launch 

 capable of 15 to 20 mile speed, with accommodations for two regular men 

 and temporary sleeping berths for two more, could do much in checking 

 violations along the coast, which is made impossible without such an 

 accessory. It might also -serve in the following respects, and, in fact, 

 in other ways too numerous to mention : 



(1) The laws relative to the important lobster fishery of Massachusetts 

 can be enforced only from the water. 



(2) Egg lobsters could be readily purchased and distributed. 



