76 



Oulnnat salmon 4. 500,000 



Flat fish 4,000,000 



Brook trout 1,500,000 



Rainbow trout 1,250,000 



Steelhead trout 1,000,000 



Atlantic salmon 200,000 



Landlocked salmon 1 80,000 



Total 930,630,000 



Besides the above output of eggs, the Commission 

 has distributed 70,000 young rock bass and 30,000 black 

 bass rancrine from four inches in length to adult size. 

 • These eggs and fish were produced at about twenty 

 active stations. The cost of production and distribu- 

 tion, including the maintenance of the stations, was 

 about $200,000. 



I do not cite this as the greatest work done by any 

 Fish Commission, but merely as one of the great tri- 

 umphs of fishcultural operations There are present 

 other members of the Fisheries Society who can point 

 with pride to their hundreds of millions of fish de- 

 posited during the past year by State Commissions. 



The United States Commission was not the first in 

 the field. The States of Massachusetts and Connecti- 

 cut had commissions six or seven years before the na- 

 tional organization was in existence, and the American 

 fisheries Society, under its old name of the American 

 Fishculturists' Association, was largely instrumental in 

 establishing the National Commission, 



The system of public fishculture, which originated 

 in New England, has grown and increased in popularity 

 and usefulness until there is no longer any need of sup- 

 porting it except in the matter of appropriations. 



The United States Fish Commission is a great fish 

 and egg producing organization, but it can do nothing 



