56 REPORTS OF THE DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE. 



Tjie Reclamation Service has tendered assistance in planting fish 

 in streams and reservoirs that come under its control, and has pub- 

 lished articles prepared by the Bureau in regard to the stocking of 

 waters. 



The Forest Service has taken the greatest interest in the stocking 

 of streams in forest reservations throughout the country. Its dis- 

 trict forest supervisors have been receiving fish at the railroad sta- 

 tions and taking them back into mountain streams, by pack horse in 

 many instances, in especially constructed cans belonging to the For- 

 est Service. This work has extended throughout the Rocky Moun- 

 tain region, to Minnesota and Wisconsin, to the White Mountains, 

 and to the Alleghanies in North Carolina. The fish thus handled by 

 the Forest Service are placed in mountain streams and such waters 

 as are heavily fished by tourists, thus affording much pleasure to a 

 large and appreciative public. The increased use of automobiles by 

 touring parties, and the movement to construct good roads through 

 the forest reservations are causing more people to seek the reserva- 

 tions each year, and angling is one of the principal attractions. 



With the Bureau of Chemistry the Bureau has cooperated in the 

 examination of various fishery foods, with reference to the correct- 

 ness of labels and the suitability for human consumption. The two 

 bureaus worked together in introducing half a million pounds of 

 Gulf fish into interior markets. 



The States Relations Service South of the Department of Agri- 

 culture and the Bureau of Fisheries have cooperated effectively in 

 various ways, the principal one being in giving demonstrations of 

 the methods of preparing and cooking fish; these demonstrations 

 being at points in Florida, Mississippi, Georgia, and in Washington, 

 D. C. 



The Bureau of Animal Industry has cooperated with this Bureau 

 in bringing about an increased production of fish meal and calling 

 the attention of agriculturists to the value of this product as animal 

 food. The part taken by the Bureau of Fisheries has been to interest 

 persons in the fishery industries in the production of this product, 

 while the Bureau of Animal Industry carries on feeding tests and 

 finds markets for such material as is produced. 



Reference is made elsewhere to the work of the Bureau, undertaken 

 in connection with the Public Health Service, in eradicating mosqui- 

 toes in the extra-catonment zone at Camp Hancock, Ga. Experi- 

 ments in mosquito control are being jointly conducted by the Bureau 

 of Entomology and the Bureau of Fisheries in Louisiana. 



The Coast Guard has rendered invaluable service, as heretofore, 

 in connection with the Alaska work of the Bureau, more particularly 

 with regard to transportation of persons and supplies to the Pribi- 

 lof Islands. 



In October, 1918, the Coast Guard cutter Bear made a special trip 

 to Seattle for the purpose of bringing out Assistant Agent A. C. 

 Reynolds for urgent medical treatment. A small shipment of fur- 

 seal skins from St. George Island was also carried. In response to a 

 request from the Secretary of Commerce, on February 12, 1919, the 

 Secretary of the Navy advised on March 3 that the commodore 

 commandant of the Coast Guard had been directed to detail the 

 cutters Uiialga and Bear to maintain the usual patrol for the pro- 

 tection of the seal herd. The Bear sailed from Seattle on May 14 



