PROPAGATION AND DISTRIBUTION OF FOOD FISHES, 1921, 
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the preceding table and gives the species and numbers of fish and 
fish eggs assigned to each such commission: 
ASSIGNMENTS OF FISH AND FisH Eacs to Stare Fisu CoMMISSIONS, FiscaL 
YEAR 1921. 
[Note.—Asterisk (*) denotes eggs; dagger (+), fry; all others are fingerlings.] 
State and species. Number. 
California: Chinook salmon......... * 3,000, 000 
Colorado: Rainbow trout..........-. * 50, 000 
Connecticut: Brook trout........... 52, 000 
Idaho: 
Blackspotted trout.............. * 50, 000 
Landlocked salmon............- = 15, 000 
Rainbow trout: .......2......... { ” an 
WER RO URES entsScomacm at te ee * 500, 000 
nois: 
205 FS EE. * Se ee ee 25, 300 
Crapplet - esr i Sa! 5, 800 
RU eependne doienaee es pp een on ee - 175 
Largemouth black bass........- 200 
e's 1) COE RA ee ee ee ee 410 
te PerCh oo nk Sone eee 250 
Hoek bass. 54s G31 bse L. 500 
[Dkr 1) eae Sa aie ae ae ea ie 26, 325 
Wudiveibass:.* 2ne.- f Pade S Ss 175 
Whitefish. f5teg). ols: * 500, 000 
Iowa: 
Wake bromts ci) ..20' 32 .l uj s2e: * 50, 000 
Rainbow trout—-5....- 20.2.5. i. * 62, 000 
Maine: 
Bake trout. 23%. c.cce caigeneiad- * 50, 000 
Landlocked salmon............. * 475, 000 
Maryland: 
WARE Sasa ene cee ce ee ck * 300, 000 
AKO ONU. =. . 2 22na Ses. ese * 4,000 
PAROND OLGh ao 2 mera sos seep * 1, 000, 000 
EAN DOW LEOUL. coe cnt se ea one * 150, 000 
Wihitefish 3! creat. fe tists * 100, 000 
Massachusetts: Rainbow trout... ... * 50, 000 
Michigan: 
PAKO TOU ot cee ys testes cc * 1, 000, 000 
Landlocked salmon............. * 10, 000 
iPikewperchis3:vae! eh el ea * 223, 200, 000 
‘Shit Bee aE See ae ies eee * 200, 000 
WyiBitensh 33 3fa- Sots kk et * 20, 000, 000 
Minnesota: 
WOUUSM esse eaeeeee «ane oh 6, 800 
(rappie 8s. 5.62655 BLL 5, 200 
Largemouth black bass.......... 9, 340 
Steelhead salmon................ * 70, 000 
SUA Shien cos -- 9 powered. 5, 200 
Mellow pereh--_ oo. 52a. cece n ee 2, 250 
Missouri: 
Bainbow trout... <<. ..0--.-<ss<-+ 100 
Dunfishisst. $53.38 100 
Montana: 
Blackspotted trout. ............. * 350, 000 
Rainbow trout................. * 150, 000 
Steelhead saimon................ * 75, 000 
Nebraska: 
LR TCS .0 1 ree ee eee 32, 900 
Rainbow troutss 2222407 2507 4° 30, 000 
State and species. Number. 
Nevada: Rainbow trout............. * 50, 000 
New Hampshire: 
Lake trouts2£4. 29. 5-2..0 nb 33 * 25,000 
Landlocked salmon...........-- * 20, 000 
Pikerperchy 432.6 it eGRLys. - * 2,000, 000 
WRItGOSH sees ech tery eke * 250, 000 
New Jersey: Pike perch............. * 1,000, 000 
New York: 
CISCO R a ee tera Sia ate * 104, 410, 000 
Laketront tue li yitec. dessa: * 1, 500, 000 
Landlocked salmon............. * 100, 000 
Steelhead salmon............ =A. * 199, 000 
WinITGHSH A Cen Oe ete ae * 29, 200, 000 
Olilon Wititehshtsseee nase Meer 2? 82 * 23,640, 000 
Oklahoma: 
* 100,000 
Rainbow trout..............-.-- + 41, 000 
8, 000 
ENOGK) buss:t i Poems acres ANE MT) 100 
Oregon: 
Chinook salmon...............-- * 3,650, 000 
Rainbow trout: -...2..2....2... * 604, 940 
Pennsylvania: ° 
Chinook salmon.... 2. 2..2:.....- 10, 000 
GCiseois-b = 3s peep ta has gt. * 65,000, 000 
WAKO UO Get se tees enn se. oe * 50,000 
Steelhead salmon................ * 30,000 
Winitefishe. 2.5 eo es *10, 000, 000 
South Dakota: 
Brookitropt .. 4-923! 2p 2544.5-4 | 2,100 
Ralnbow Wout.. seen es Seat oes te 3, 000 
Tennessee: Rainbow trout.......--- * 55,000 
Utah: ‘Lake'trout=:....-22......2..4- * 50, 000 
Vermont: 
Take tronte.< isi jo2 ay cbse och | * 25,000 
Landlocked salmon............. 1 * 20,000 
Pikemperchiiset. 2.9 Leer to * 14, 700, 000 
Steelhead salmon............... * 25,000 
Yellow perebit 2/204 0 00 * 12, 000, 000 
Washington: ; 
Blackspotted trout. ............. * 75,000 
Rainbow trout:....0---52..22..: * 75, 000 
Steelhead salmon............... * 49,000 
Wyoming: 
Blackspotted trout.............. * 100, 000 
BLOUK CLO Pose eee ee ee eee = * 100, 000 
Catfish 522222 6-43. og? ha. x 1, 200 
Largemouth black bass.........- 2,150 
Rainbow trout: ig * 309, 800 
* 483, 914, 740 
Dota ot <2 53 we asgzserre ts + 41,000 
236, 575 
CONSIDERATIONS IN DISTRIBUTION OF COMMERCIAL FISHES. 
The output of the bureau’s hatcheries handling the commercial 
species is planted in local waters on the natural spawning grounds 
in so far as this may be desirable or practicable. This course is ob- 
viously necessary for the maintenance of the fishery involved, par- 
ticularly where commercial fishing is aggressively prosecuted or 
where, as in the case of the anadromous fishes, commercial activi- 
ties are coincident with the spawning season of the fish. It has 
been ably argued that the bureau’s hatcheries belong to the people 
and that the output should be distributed more widely in neighbor- 
