VIII REPORT TO THE SECRETARY OF COMMERCE 



(d) That the authorizations herein given in sections 1, 2, 3, 4, and 5 with 

 reference to appropriations for certain specified years are for the purpose of indi- 

 cating priority proposed to be given the various projects enumerated therein, 

 but shall not be held to require the appropriations therein enumerated to be made 

 in the years specified, and the appropriations enumerated are likewise authorized 

 in prior or subsequent years in annual or supplemental appropriation Acts. 



Sec. 7. There are hereby authorized to be appropriated, in addition to all 

 other amounts authorized by law to be appropriated, not to exceed the following 

 amounts during the fiscal years specified: 



(1) For the purpose of providing adequate maintenance costs and personnel 

 for the Division of Fish Culture, Bureau of Fisheries: Fiscal vear beginning July 

 1, 1930, $100,000; fiscal vear beginning Julv 1, 1931, $200,000; fiscal year be- 

 ginning July 1, 1932, $300,000; fiscal year beginning July 1, 1933, $400,000; 

 fiscal year beginning July 1, 1934, $500,000. Of each amount authorized by this 

 paragraph to be appropriated, not more than 30 per centum is authorized for 

 salaries at the seat of government and elsewhere. 



(2) To meet the demand for fundamental knowledge regarding our great com- 

 mercial fisheries and for developing the natural cultivation of oysters, mussels, 

 and other moUusca, and the improvement of pond cultural, the encouragement 

 of fish conservation in the waters of the Great Lakes and other waters, and other 

 operations of the Division of Inquiry, Bureau of Fisheries, respecting food fishes, 

 sufficient annual additions to increase present appropriations by not to exceed 

 $300,000 per annum at the conclusion of the construction program authorized in 

 this Act. Of each amount authorized by this paragraph to be appropriated not 

 more than 40 per centum is authorized for salaries at the seat of government and 

 elsewhere, and not to exceed $10,000 in any year for a survey of the fisheries of 

 the Hawaiian Islands. 



(3) To provide for the proper husbandry of our fisheries, improvements 

 in methods of capture, merchandising, and distribution of our fishery harvest, 

 including saving and utilization of waste products, and other operations of the 

 Division of Fishery Industries, Bureau of Fisheries, sufficient annual additions 

 to increase present appropriations by not to exceed $175,000 per annum at the 

 conclusion of the construction program authorized in this Act. Of each amount 

 authorized by this paragraph to be appropriated not more than 40 per centum 

 is authorized for salaries at the seat of government and elsewhere. 



Sec. 8. In carrying out the provisions of this Act the Bureau of Fisheries 

 maj' cooperate with States, counties, municipalities, individuals, and public and 

 private agencies, organizations, and institutions, and may accept donations of 

 lands, funds, and other aid to the development of this program. 



Approved, May 21, 1930. 



BLACK-BASS LEGISLATION 



The act of May 20, 1926, designed to regulate the interstate trans- 

 portation of black bass, proved to be impracticable of enforcement. 

 During the second session of the Seventy-first Congress, at the re- 

 quest of a congi'essional committee, the bureau made a careful study 

 of the subject and aided in drafting a comprehensive corrective 

 measure which was adopted by the Congress at the close of the fiscal 

 3^ear. This act will be effective on and after July 2, 1930. The act, 

 among other things, provides in substance that it shall be unlawful 

 for any person to deliver or knowingly receive for transportation, or 

 knowingly to transport, any black bass, if (1) such transportation is 

 contrary to the law of the State from which such black bass is or is 

 to be transported, or (2) such black bass has been either caught, killed, 

 taken, sold, purchased, possessed, or transported, at any time, con- 

 trary to the law of the State in which it was caught, killed, taken, 

 sold, purchased, or possessed, or from which it was transported; and 

 that no person shall knowingly purchase or receive any such black 

 bass which has been transported in violation of the act. 



The act also provides that all interstate shipments of black bass 

 shall be clearly and conspicuously marked and show the names and 



