XLVI REPORT OF THE COMMISSIONER OF FISHERIES 



current for two searchlights. There are an evaporator and dis- 

 tiller of 1,000 gallons capacity. 



APPROPRIATIONS 



The regular appropriations for the bureau for the fiscal year 1926 

 aggregated $1,589,140, as follows : 



Salaries : 



Office of the commissioner and field $625, 950 



Pay, officers and crews of vessels, Alaska service 47, 790 



Miscellaneous expenses : 



Administration —1 3, 900 



Propagation of food fishes 400,000 



Maintenance of vessels 105,000 



Inquiry regarding food fishes 43, 500 



Fishery industries 25, 500 



Protecting sponge fisheries 2,500 



Protecting seal and salmon fisheries of Alaska 310, 000 



Upper Mississippi River fish rescue 25,000 



Total 1, 589, 140 



Respectfully submitted. 



Henry O'Malley, 

 Commissioner of Fisheries. 

 To Hon. Herbert Hoover, 



Secretary of Commerce. 



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