REPORT OF THE COMMISSIONER <>K FISHERIES. 



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shall carry such ensigns and markers as shall distinctly show that they arc being used 

 by the United States Bureau of Fisheries. It shall be unlawful to have in possession 

 or use such ensigns and markers or imitations thereof upon any boat, buoy, net, or 

 fishing appliance except when in use by the United States Bureau of Fisheries; and 

 the person or corporation which shall violate this provision shall be deemed to be 

 guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction thereof shall be punished by a line of 

 not less than one hundred dollars nor more than five hundred dollars, or by impris- 

 onment in the Detroit house of correction for a period of not more than one year, or 

 by both such fine and imprisonment in the discretion of the court. Any line imposed 

 upon a corporation under this act may be recovered of said corporation by a suil in 

 the circuit court for the proper county, and any recovery shall carry with it full c< »sts 

 of suit. 



Sec. 3. Section six of act number eighty-eight of the public acts of eighteen hun- 

 dred ninety-nine, being an added section to act number one hundred fifty-one of the 

 public acts of eighteen hundred ninety-seven, entitled "An act to regulate the catch- 

 ing of fish in the waters of this State by the use of pound or trap nets, gill nets, 

 seines, and other apparatus," is hereby repealed. 



RELATIONS WITH FOREIGN COUNTRIES. 



In response to requests coming through diplomatic channels, the 

 Bureau has furnished eggs of five species of salmonoid fishes to the 

 governments of Argentina and New Zealand, as follows: 



In addition to furnishing the foregoing shipments, the Bureau has 

 acted as agent in obtaining 300,000 brook trout eggs for Argentina, 

 100,000 rainbow trout eggs for an applicant in Germany, and 15,000 

 rainbow trout eggs for an applicant in France. 



Through the courtesy of the fisheiy authorities of the Province of 

 Ontario, the Bureau has continued to collect whitefish and lake trout 

 eggs in the Canadian waters of Lake Erie and Lake Superior. The 

 immense numbers of whitefish, lake herring, lake trout, pike perch, 

 and other fishes which the Bureau plants in the open waters of the 

 Great Lakes are of almost equal benefit to Canadian and American 

 fishermen. In Juno, 1905, some 300,000 }^oung lake trout were 

 deposited in the Canadian waters of Lake Superior near Rossport. 



RESCUE OF FISHES FROM OVERFLOWED LANDS. 



The rescue of fishes from the sloughs formed by the overflow of the 

 Illinois and Mississippi rivers was conducted on a somewhat larger 



