20* EEPOET OF COMMISSIONER OF FISH AND FISHERIES. 



Tlie state of California lias also assisted in the propagation of the Call- 

 fornia salmon by appropriations made for the most part by public 

 spirited citizens in sums of one or two thousand dollars, in order that 

 the supply, especially intended for the Sacramento, might be increased 

 in proportion, and hatched out at the United States establishment on 

 the McCloud. 



The organization of a new establishment on the Clackamas, a tributary 

 of the Columbia Eiver, will be referred to hereafter. All the expense 

 of preparing the building, dam, and apparatus was met by voluntary 

 contributions from the canners on the river, although the actual work 

 was superintended by officers of the United States Fish Commission 

 detailed for that purpose. 



The State of Maryland, too, by its fish commission, has also for several 

 years carried on its operations of shad-hatching in connection with the 

 United States Fish Commission, Mr. T. B. Ferguson, the accomplished 

 head of that commission, ha\iug placed at the command of the United 

 States Commission the important apparatus devised by him for hatch- 

 ing out eggs, and aided in its practical manipulation. He is also the 

 head of the establishment in Baltimore where the eggs of the California 

 and land-locked salmon have been hatched for distribution by the United 

 States Commission to such points in the Southern States as were with- 

 out proper facilities for the work. 



The indirect aid rendered by State commissions in the planting of fish 

 is also of very great imijortance. 



The present production of the eggs of the California salmon is on so 

 enormous a scale that it would be imx)Ossible for the United States Fish 

 Commission, even with a considerably larger appropriation, to under- 

 take the business of hatching them out, or of placiug them in the 

 waters of the several States. It is also impossible for tbe officers of the 

 commission to have a proper appreciation of the character of these 

 waters, which will alone permit a judicious planting. Very great aid is 

 therefore experienced in the general work by the present arrangement 

 of forwarding the eggs of the salmon, of the various species, California, 

 land-locked, and Eastern, to the State commissioners, who receive and 

 hatch them out and personally superintend their introduction into ap- 

 propriate waters, at the same time making a report of their action in 

 the matter. In many cases, too, the commissioners of one State will 

 agree to receive and hatch out eggs for the waters of an adjacent State 

 which has no hatching-house. 



The messengers of the Fish Commission also frequently deliver their 

 young shad to the State commissioners, who take charge of them and 

 see that they are properly deposited, a selection of points being made 

 by correspondence with these officers. 



APPLICATIONS FOR FISH. 



The applications for the services of the United States Fish Commis- 

 sion, in supplying eggs or the young of fish, may be arranged under two 



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