REPORT OF THE COMMISSIONER OF FISHERIES. 7 
agents for canvassing the fisheries; a clerk to the deputy commis- 
sioner and a clerk for the Seattle office; change in designation and 
increase in salary of the principal Government officials on the Pribilof 
Islands; provision for personnel of the station at Block Island. R. 
I.; and an alternative estimate for the segregation of the different 
grades of all field employees, in lieu of detailed estimate by sta- 
tions, cars, etc., as at present, in the interest of a more elastic force 
that can be more economically employed. 
APPROPRIATIONS AND ALLOTMENTS. 
The appropriations for the Bureau of Fisheries for the fiscal year 
1918, including regular, deficiency, and special appropriations, ag- 
gregated $1,263,560, as follows: 
Salaries, including $8,000 deficiency for steamer Roosevelt___________ $440, 560 
Miscellaneous expenses: 
PCRUTETINES ET ALLO Mas ogee Re A ae ge ge 10, 000 
Opa toll Olt OG ase see aa ee een eee ee 375, 000 
Maunienance’> Of ° VESSGIS 49" this eSie eres RES ees Bee Fis) ik ie 90, 000 
inguiry respecting stood); fishes: 2s 8s: shoe) ohio oat ee Se 50, 000 
SPSS AVOUT G70 i Ae Ee EE Eee SA SEN ee eee eee MORON Oe Ete. eee 7, 500 
PHC HN SHOE, TISNEDICS == ote Nile SR A ee a 3, 000 
Protecting seal and salmon fisheries of Alaska, including deficiency 
CBS 125 00 bis Ag SR SES 9 OC eee Saat oe apo 2 SC OO RS per eete tee 110, 000 
Developing aquatic sources of leatheroni2. 2225022 es 10, 000 
Pease, ShCAMET TIES lie PT OAOIG 2 se ee ed ts BS 35,000 
TC USEUTT GT Bui EG WOR GES SR Net aE Seca aR RNP acer Werte ace 2 a 15, 000 
RGtOr Vessel TOr™ W. OOS LlOle: NIASS se ee ee 3, 000 
Rebuilding laboratory, Fairport, Iowa (deficiency) ________________ 80, 000 
Improvements and purchase of land at fish-cultural stations: 
ADE LIUGRT ioe Nc RV eer Sa sag eee ols See eS 5, 500 
EOPCIR COED, eolNg ty Oye ak rs ok ee ee ea ed ie eR yn SEE Ue 8, 500 
SHES yl de 0) Sl US. pet i gh a a > bo yee hs i cles ae 7, 500 
Improvements at fish-cultural stations: 
Bozeman se Montes y2Fe: wine nied Torts sareort ortrepies bobs 7, 500 
errs Na wT GS A i Es pe Se we OE A 2th id 3, 500 
“SEP TH HOPE TN, AC) ea ea at SaaS Sa BPE S Si PgR ee ST eS a 7, 000 
A detailed statement of the expenditures under the foregoing ap- 
propriations will be submitted in accordance with law. 
In addition to the amounts appropriated by Congress, there were 
provided for the extension of the Bureau’s activities certain allot- 
ments from the fund for the national security and defense. These 
allotments, approved and authorized by the President on the recom- 
mendation of the Secretary, have enabled the Bureau to undertake 
important work that otherwise would have been altogether impossible 
or possible on only a limited scale. 
The first allotment, amounting to $30,000, was made on January 2, 
1918, for the purpose of securing an immediate increase in the pro- 
duction of aquatic foods on all parts of the United States coast, 
through such educational and publicity methods as have heretofore 
proved successful. 
The second allotment, of $20,000, was given on February 27, 1918, 
to enable the Bureau to cooperate with the Food Administration and 
the State fishery authorities in increasing the production of food fish 
in the Gulf States. 
On April 9, 1918, an allotment of $25,000 was provided for the 
purpose of enabling the Bureau to install at the Pribilof Islands a 
plant for the utilization of seal carcasses in producing a commercial 
