14 REPORT OF NEW JERSEY STATE MUSEUM. 
The number of men employed in catching shad is over 2,000; 
the number of boats, nearly 1,000; the number of nets, 830; 
value of apparatus, including boats, nets, etc., $11,300. Total 
value of the catch in 1903, $325,000. The United States Fish 
Commission is doing everything possible to keep the Delaware 
river stocked. The steamer “Fish Hawk’ has been stationed 
near Gloucester, N. J., every year, where millions of eggs are 
hatched and the fry deposited in the upper Delaware. 
BAIT FISH. 
Another important thing is the protecting and increasing of 
bait fish, in order to supply food for preserving and maintaining 
the supply of food-fish in our waters. Without food the fish 
placed in the water would not live and increase. 
Fish introduced by the Fish and Game Commissioners during 
the past year, 1905: 
They have introduced wall-eyed pike, channel catfish, calico 
bass and crappies. 
The wall-eyed pike were first brought from Lake Erie several 
years ago, and have multiplied and now appear in large numbers 
in the lakes in the northern part of the State where they were 
placed. 
Large numbers of calico bass and crappies have been caught. 
23,865 black bass, perch, pickerel, crappies, catfish and butterfish 
were distributed. Over 25,000 brook, or square-tailed trout, 
were distributed during the past year in suitable streams in the 
northern part of the State. 
The same Commission will place 40,000 trout in the streams 
during this fall and winter, besides large supplies of other fresh- 
water fish. The Commission report that, unfortunately, shad are 
disappearing from the Delaware river. ‘The Commission has 
done all it could to overcome this condition. It has, in connec- 
tion with the Pennsylvania and United States Conamission, 
placed 3,806,000 shad fry in the Delaware river. They attribute 
it to the closed time being too short. 
