PROPAGATION AND DISTRIBUTION OF FOOD FISHES, 1921. 



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the preceding table and gives the species and numbers of fish and 

 fish eggs assigned to each such commission : 



Assignments of Fish and Fish Eggs to State Fish Commissions, Fiscal 



Year 1921. 



[Note.— Asterisk (*) denotes eggs; dagger (t), fry; all others are fingerlings.] 



State and species. 



California: Chinook salmon . . . 



Colorado: Rainbow trout 



Connecticut: Brook trout 



Idaho: 



Blackspotted trout 



Landlocked salmon 



Rainbow trout 



Whitefish 



XUinois: 



Catfish 



Crappie 



Drum 



Largemoutb black bass... 



Pickerel 



Pike perch 



Rock bass 



Sunfish 



White bass 



WhiteQsh 



Iowa: 



Lake trout 



Rainbow trout 



Maine: 



Lake trout 



Landlocked salmon 



Maryland: 



Cisco 



Lake trout 



Pike perch 



Rainbow trout 



Whitefish 



Massachusetts: Rainbow trout 

 Michigan: 



Lake trout 



Landlocked salinon 



Pike perch 



Smelt 



Whitefish 



Minnesota: 



Catfish 



Crappie 



Largemoiith black bass 



Steelhead salmon 



SunfLsh 



Yellow perch 



Missouri: 



Rainbow trout 



.Sunfish 



Montana: 



Bla<k.'!potted trout 



Rainbow trout 



Steelhead saunon 



Nebraska: 



Bro<jk trout 



Rainbow trout 



Number. 



* 3, 000, 000 



*50,0(X) 



52,000 



*.50,000 



* 15,000 

 ( * 50, 000 

 t 7,000 



* 500, 000 



25,300 

 5,800 

 175 

 200 

 410 

 250 

 500 



26,325 

 175 



* 500, 000 



♦50,000 



* 62, 000 



*.50,000 



* 475, 000 



* 300, 000 

 *4,000 



♦1,000,000 



♦150,000 



♦100,000 



♦50,000 



♦1,000,000 



♦10,000 



♦223,200,000 



♦200,000 



♦20,000,000 



6,800 

 5, 200 

 9,310 



♦ 70,000 



5,200 

 2,250 



100 

 100 



♦350,000 

 ♦150,000 



♦ 75, 000 



32,900 

 30,000 



State and species. 



Nevada: Rainbow trout. 

 New Hampshire: 



Lake trout 



Landlocked salmon . 



Pike perch 



WTiitefish 



New Jersey: Pike perch. 

 New York: 



Cisco 



Lake trout 



Landlocked salmon. 



Steelhead sahnon 



Whitefish 



Ohio: Whitefish 



Oklahoma: 



Rainbow trout. 



Number. 



Rock bass 



Oregon: 



Chinook salmon 



Rain bow trout 



Pennsylvania: 



Chinook salmon 



Cisco 



Lake trout 



Steelhead salmon 



Whitefish 



South Dakota: 



Brook trout 



Rainbow trout 



Tennessee: Rainbow trout. 



Utah: Lake trout 



Vermont: 



Lake trout , 



Landlocked salmon 



Pike perch 



Steelhead salmon 



Yellow perch 



Washington: 



Blackspotted trout 



Rainbow trout 



Steelhead salmon , 



Wyoming: 



Blackspotted trout 



Brook trout 



Catfish , 



Largeinoulh black bass. 



Rainbow trout 



TotaL. 



♦ 50,000 



♦ 25, 000 



♦ 20,000 



* 2, 000, 000 



* 250, 000 



* 1, 000, 000 



♦ 104,410,000 



* 1,500,000 



* 100, 000 



* 199, 000 



♦ 29,200,000 



♦ 23, 640, 000 



f ♦ 100,000 



t 41,000 



t 8,000 



100 



♦3,050,000 

 ♦604,940 



10,000 



♦ 65,000,000 



♦ 50,000 



♦ 30,000 

 *10,000,000 



2,100 

 3,000 



♦ 55,000 



♦ 50,000 



♦ 25,000 



♦ 20, 000 



♦ 14,700,000 



♦ 2 "), 000 



♦ 12,000,000 



♦ 75,000 



♦ 75, 000 



♦ 49,000 



* 100,000 

 ♦100,000 



1,200 

 2, 1,50 



* 309, 800 



* 483, 91 4, 740 

 t 41,000 

 236,575 



CONSIDERATIONS IN DISTRIBUTION OF COMMERCIAL FISHES. 



The output of the bureau's hatcheries handling the commercial 

 species is planted in local waters on the natural spawning grounds 

 in so far as this may be desirable or practicable. This course is ob- 

 viously necessary for the maintenance of the fishery involved, par- 

 ticularly where commercial fishing is aggressively prosecuted or 

 where, as in the case of the anadromous fi.shes, commercial activi- 

 ties are coincident with the spawning season of the fish. It has 

 been ably argued that tlie biiioairs hatcheries belong to tlir people 

 and that the output should be distributed more widely in neighbor- 



