14 REPORT OF THE COMMISSIONER OF FISHERIES. 
ASSIGNMENTS OF FISH AND FisH Eaes To STATE F1sH ComMMISSIONS, ETC.—Con. 
State and species. | Number. | State and species. Number, 
Minnesota: | Oregon: 
Black Dass. c ore ee eee a9, 340 | Chinook'salmons2. nis Pens ahr. | 3,650,000 
Catfish! G0 Seer ye nes See ae | a6, 800 | Rainhowrttoude! scscec 2 os bc ecee 604, 940 
Crap pic tae Ames ssshans cee wee «5,200 || Pennsylvania: 
Sunfish? 5. 2222S aie eee ee a5, 200 | Chinookisalmon 22.2 S)io¢niicl. a 10, 000 
Steelhead salmon.....:-....../.-2. 70, 000 CISCO: 332. < he ee ee ee 65, 000, 000 
Yellow perctits¥ 35 oe. eee a 2, 250 Laketrout....7i:4. 20 Fa beik Oo 50, 000 
Missouri: Steelhead salmon..............-... 30, 000 
Risin DOWAtLOU Ge cee esc cee eee a 100 | Wihitelishse cose cme nena eee 10, 000, 000 
Stanifksh SALA Tee eee Ee a 100 || South Dakota: 
Montana: Brook trout: o.com acne cee | a 2,100 
iBlackspotied tTOultss. o-een tees 350, 000 Rainbow trout... 2262.94. 18-1 | a 3,000 
Rainbowstrouts ..22) 5. - 37228 pe 150,000 |} Tennessee: Rainbow trout............ 55, 000 
Steelhead salmon.................. fos000, ||" Uta Makeitrout.s:* --- 2.2 4-ees nee 50, 000 
Nebraska: Vermont: 
Brook tEoW tae cf 345. eae a 32,900 aketroitwcjciasc-6 saecc Stewie ae 25, 000 
Rainbow trout. /:...22. 521i i! a 30,000 Landlocked salmon-..-........-... 20, 000 
Nevada: Rainbow trout-.-............. 50, 000 | Pikewperchs: 5 cessh: -cagswoceeces | 14,700, 000 
New Hampshire: | Steelhead salmon -... 32 .s25-222--2 25, 000 
Landlocked salmon............--- 20, 000 Vell ow sPereh. piers deck eee | 12,000, 000 
oakesnowti 52 2S -cisicie ners seen eee 25,000 || Washington: 
iPiketp enchia ee Sone eee 2,000, 000 | Blackspotted trout................ 75, 000 
IWRC OR SIS tater taser Nios sergem eee 250, 000 Rain bowatOl ins cstoe ce ceoeen eres 75,000 
New Jersey: Pike perch............... 1, 000, 000 | Steelhead salmon.................. 49,000 
New York: Wyoming: 
CiSCOR AE Aa 28a cca es caeae 104, 410, 000 | BIACKbasss oe aos eae eee 5 a 2,150 
Lake troutesc sek ee .--| 1,500, 000 Blackspotted trout........ Sy 100, 000 
Landlocked salmon.........- aM 100, 000 Brook itiToutiess <n | 100, 000 
Steelhead salmon.......... Tend 199, 000 Catfish Si ibis teal § a1, 200 
Wihitefishis ste b Lescglac. - ...| 29,200, 000 | Rainbow trout... om 309, 800 
Ohio; eWihiGelishe= sem oascmeasee oe cee 23, 640, 000 | Smolteesscee cs sacencceeeeeractecss 200, 000 
Oklahoma: a 
J 100, 000 484, 114, 740 
aim DowstTOwba Ys. sook o ee eae ee b 41, 000 | ANC) 2) Eye RA Ae AO a a 236, 575 
a 8,000 | b 41, 000 
IVGCK:PASSl ote Soe stuiacesieebeeieon a100 | 
In realization of the great and growing need for more adequate 
laws for the protection of food and game fishes in various parts of 
the country, the Bureau has been in communication with the fishery 
authorities of a number of States. Attention has been directed in 
certain cases to the lack of suitable laws or to the lack of stringent 
enforcement of the laws, and the States have been reminded of the 
stipulation made by Congress in connection with the annual appro- 
priation for the propagation of food fishes, which prohibits the ex- 
enditure of funds for hatching or planting fish in any State where, 
in the judgment of the Secretary of Commerce, inadequate protection 
is afforded the particular species handled. In every instance the 
response to the Bureau’s communication has shown a desire on the 
part of the States to bring about any needed reforms in fishery 
legislation, and there is reason to believe that some States that have 
been derelict in this matter will enact new and better laws in the 
near future. It has been the Bureau’s policy not to summarily recom- 
mend the discontinuance of fish-cultural work in any State, but to 
use every proper influence to bring the States in line for the main- 
tenance of their fish and other aquatic animals. 
The shad hatchery at the head of the Chesapeake Bay, near Havre 
de Grace, Md., closed by the Secretary of Commerce in 1917 for 
reasons fully set forth in published reports, has been definitely 
abandoned, as the State gives no indication or intimation of an in- 
tention to meet the conditions imposed by law. The equipment and 
machinery have been transferred to other stations, the major build- 
