356 U. S. BUREAU OF FISHEEIES 



ASSIGNMENTS OF FISH AND FISH EGGS TO STATES, 

 TERRITORIES, AND FOREIGN COUNTRIES 



Thirty-two States have inchided in their output fish which were 

 derived directly or indirectly from Federal hatchery operations. In 

 fact 639,000,000 eggs, fry, and fingerlings comprised the total of 

 assignments to the State Fish and Game Departments. The bulk of 

 these were eggs since these constituted raw material w^hich can be 

 most easily handled in transit. It should be pointed out that this 

 does not all represent "Federal aid" or donations but in many instances 

 the assignments are the result of cooperative arrangements under 

 which the States stand their full share of the cost of producing the 

 fish or eggs which they receive. 



There has been a constant increase in the totals covered by these 

 cooperative relationships. The following list shows no shipments 

 made to foreign countries. There was, however, a routine exchange 

 of eggs with the Dominion of Canada. This is an annual arrangement 

 whereby the Bureau obtains Atlantic salmon eggs as compensation 

 for assignment of cut- throat trout eggs. It wiU also be noted that a 

 shipment of rainbow trout eggs was made to Puerto Rico in continua- 

 tion of the program of the insular Government to establish this game 

 species in the mountainous sections of the Island. 



The services of the Assistant Chief of the Division of Fish Culture 

 were loaned to make a survey of Lake Titicaca, South America, for 

 the Peruvian and Bolivian Governments. No shipments of fish have 

 as yet been made as a consequence of tliis study, how^ever. 



Assignments offish and fish eggs to State fish commissions, fiscal year 1936 



