50 REPOET OF THE COMMISSIONER OF FISHERIES. 



APPROPRIATIONS. 



The regular appropriations for the support of the Bureau of 

 Fisheries for the fiscal year 1921 aggregated $1,216,310. The specific 

 purposes for which the appropriations were made and the amounts 

 thereunder were as follows : 



Salaries $448,810 



Pay ol' officers and crews of vessels for Alaska service 26, 000 



Miscellaneous expenses: 



Administration 11, 000 



Propagation of food fishes 400, 000 



Maintenance of vessels 120,000 



Inquiry respecting food fishes 45,000 



Fishery industries 7, 500 



Protecting sponge fisheries 3, 000 



Pi'otecting seal and salmon fisheries 140, 000 



Special appropriations: 



Fur-seal islands, repairs and improvements 10, OOO 



Fairport (Iowa) biological station, equipment 5,000 



Deficiency appropriations as follows, amounting to $13,775, be- 

 came available during the year : 



Maintennnce of vessels $4,422 



Protecting seal and salmon fisheries 9, 353 



In accordance with law, a detailed statement of the expenditures 

 under the regular and deficiency appropriations will be duly sub- 

 mitted. 

 Respectfully submitted. 



Hugh M. Smith, 

 Commissioner of Fisheries. 

 To Hon. Herbert Hoover, 



Secretary of Commerce. 



