REPORT OF THE COMMISSIONER OF FISHERIES. 



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wide a scale as availahle funds will j)onuit. In s])ite of the healthy 

 growth and expansion of the Bureau's activities, facilities are lieavih^ 

 taxed in attem])ts to sujiply the constantly increasing demands from 

 all sections of the country for food and game fishes for public and 

 private waters. Large as are the annual distributions, the output of 

 none of the sj)ecies exceeds the actual need, and in most instances 

 falls short of requirements. Particidarly is this true of such fishes 

 as the black basses, crappies, sunfishes, and catfishes, the demand 

 for which, in the stocking of private and semiprivate waters adapted 

 to pond culture, makes imperative the expansion of this branch of 

 the work to its utmost possibilities. The api)lications received dur- 

 ing the year numbered 9,446, and a very large percentage of them 

 were for fish for stocking artificial or private ponds. 



COOPERATION WITH STATE AND FOREIGN FISHERY AUTHORITIES. 



In continuation of its cooperative relations with the States in fish- 

 cultural work, the Bureau has made large allotments of eggs and 

 limited numbers of fry, fingerlings, and yearlings to State hatcheries. 

 As shown m the following table, such allotments aggregated over 

 209,000,000 and went to 24 States: 



Allotments of Fish Eggs to State Fish Commissions, Fiscal Year ]912.' 



1 There were also allotted to Connecticut (lOO.OOO shad fry; to Massachasetfs, 10,(X)0 Chinook salmon 

 fingerlings, to Nebraska, 3,000 brook trout nnKcrliuKs and 3,000 rainbow trout fingerlings: to New Jersey, 

 2,500,000 pike perch fry; and to Vermont, 300 brook trout fingerlings. 



