REPORT OF THE COMMISSIONER OF FISHERIES. 



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distributing fishes of the interior waters, which are assigned on re- 

 quests of individuals, fish associations, State fishery officials, and 

 officers of the National Park Service and Forest Service. Fishes rep- 

 resenting the commercial species are usually planted on the Bureau's 

 initiative on the spawning grounds from which eggs are derived and, 

 in some instances, in barren waters where the conditions favor the 

 development of new and promising fisheries. 



In the Bureau's estimates of appropriations for the fiscal year 1923, 

 under the item for the propagation of food fishes, there has been in- 

 serted a clause which is intended to bring to the attention of Congress 

 the desirability of instituting a new policy in the distribution of fish 

 produced at the Government hatcheries or obtained in the course of 

 the regular operations. This clause provides that the Secretary of 

 Commerce may make a reasonable charge for fish supplied for plant- 

 ing in any waters in which the public is nol allowed to take fish. 



RELATIONS WITH THE STATES IN FISH CULTURE. 



The numerous States engaged in fish culture are laboring for the 

 same purposes that actuate the Bureau in its operations within the 

 respective States. The field is large, the need for very extensive work 

 is nearly everywhere apparent, and there is no conflict of authority or 

 duplication of effort between the States and the Federal Government. 

 Under the cooperative arrangements that have been made the practi- 

 cal efforts of one agency supplement and augment those of the other, 

 with maximum benefit to the public. 



The Bureau acknowledges invaluable assistance afforded by the 

 States during the past year, resulting in reduced expense, augmented 

 output, and in( leased efficiency in stocking waters. Joint occupation 

 of productive collecting fields and the use of State hatcheries for the 

 incubation of eggs provided by tlie Bureau, the young fish being 

 planted by the State in local waters in accordance with previous plans, 

 have continued to be features of the interrelations with the States. 

 In the fiscal year 1921 tlie fish commissions of 28 States were assigned 

 fish and eggs, as set forth in detail in the following table : 



Assignments of Fish and Fish Eggs to State Fish Commissions During the 



Fiscal Year 1921. 



( \11 figures are for eggs unless otherwise indicated. Finger lings are designated a and fry 6.] 



State and species. 



Number. 



C ilifcnli: Chinook salmon 



Colorado: Rainbow trout 



Connecticut: Brook trout .. . 

 Idaho: 



Blackspolted trout 



Landlocked salmon 



Rainl)ow trout. 



VVliitefish.. 

 Illinoi.s: 



Black bass. 



Catfish 



Crapf)ic 



Dmni 



Pickerel 



I'ikp perch . 

 Rock bass.. 



Munflsh 



Wnite bass. 

 Wnllcnsh.. 



3,000,000 



.00,000 



a. 52, 000 



.50,000 

 1.5,000 

 50,000 

 a 7, 000 

 500,000 



(7200 



2.5, 300 



a 5, MOO 



175 



o410 



0250 



0.500 



o 26, 3:^.5 



a 17.5 



500.000 



State and species. 



Iowa: 



I ake trout 



Rainbow trout 



Maine: 



Lake trout 



Landlfx;ked salmon . 

 Mai-viand: 



Cisco 



Lake trout. 



Number 



50,000 

 62,000 



.50,000 

 475, 000 



.300,000 

 1,000 



Pike perch I 1, OOO, 000 



Rainbow trout I'ld, 000 



Wnitefish KX), 000 



Massachusetts: Rainbow trout 50,000 



Michigan: i 



Landlocked salmon 10, 000 



I.ak e trou t 1 , 000, 000 



Pike perch 223, 200, 000 



•■^raclt 200,000 



W hltensh ] 20, 000, 000 



