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U.S. BUEEAU OF FISHERIES 



ASSIGNMENTS OF FISH EGGS TO STATES, TERRITORIES, AND 

 FOREIGN COUNTRIES 



The Division of Fish Culture is in part an agency supplying raw 

 material to other organizations engaged in the propagation of fish. 

 These raw materials, largely in the form of fish eggs, are furnished to 

 a number of the States, as well as to certain foreign Governments. 

 The shipments to foreign Governm.ents were somewhat reduced below 

 the figures for prior years and consist largely of assignments to South 

 American countries. The assignments to Canada consist of trout 

 eggs, furnished in exchange for Atlantic salmon eggs supplied by the 

 Canadian Government. It may be pointed out that all foreign sliip- 

 ments of fish are made only at the solicitation of the Governments of 

 the countries receiving them, and these requests must be submitted 

 through diplomatic channels. The assignments of fish eggs to various 

 States amounts to slightly over 39,000,000, in comparison with 149,- 

 500,000 furnished the previous year. This difterence is largely attrib- 

 uted to the absence of any allocation of pike-perch or wliitefish during 

 1 933. The other species, almost entirely trout, were furnished in slightly 

 increased numbers to 22 States and Territories, in comparison with 24 

 receiving them the previous year. The value of these assignments 

 and exchanges lies in the fact that many of the States are able to 

 receive species wliicli they could not otherwise obtain readily, and the 

 cost of securing a supply of eggs for their hatcheries is materially 

 reduced when they are furnished through the Bureau of Fisheries. 



Shipments offish and fish eggs to foreign countries, fiscal year 1933 



