﻿THE 
  DISTRIBUTION 
  OF 
  FISH 
  AND 
  FISH 
  EGGS 
  DURING 
  THE 
  

   FISCAL 
  YEAR 
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  CHARACTER 
  OF 
  THE 
  WORK. 
  

  

  The 
  fish-cultural 
  work 
  of 
  the 
  Bureau 
  of 
  Fisheries 
  may 
  be 
  said 
  to 
  

   have 
  two 
  general 
  objects 
  — 
  the 
  restoration 
  and 
  maintenance 
  of 
  the 
  

   commercial 
  fisheries 
  of 
  the 
  country, 
  and 
  the 
  stocking 
  of 
  its 
  interior 
  

   waters 
  with 
  the 
  more 
  important 
  food 
  and 
  game 
  fishes 
  to 
  which 
  they 
  

   are 
  adapted. 
  In 
  the 
  prosecution 
  of 
  the 
  former 
  of 
  these 
  objects, 
  which 
  

   is 
  concerned 
  with 
  the 
  salmons, 
  whitefish, 
  lake 
  trout, 
  pike 
  perch, 
  shad, 
  

   white 
  perch, 
  yellow 
  perch, 
  cod, 
  lobster, 
  pollock, 
  and 
  other 
  commercial 
  

   species, 
  the 
  Bureau 
  acts 
  on 
  its 
  own 
  initiative, 
  carefully 
  planning 
  its 
  

   distributions 
  of 
  young 
  fish 
  with 
  the 
  view 
  of 
  conserving 
  and 
  increas- 
  

   ing 
  the 
  importance 
  of 
  existing 
  fisheries, 
  and 
  of 
  establishing 
  a 
  basis 
  

   for 
  their 
  extension 
  through 
  the 
  systematic 
  annual 
  plantmg 
  of 
  fish 
  of 
  

   suitable 
  species 
  in 
  fertile 
  but 
  unproductive 
  fields. 
  

  

  In 
  that 
  part 
  of 
  its 
  work 
  which 
  relates 
  to 
  the 
  stocking 
  of 
  interior 
  

   lakes 
  and 
  streams 
  the 
  Bureau 
  sohcits 
  the 
  participation 
  of 
  the 
  pubhc. 
  

   It 
  cooperates 
  with 
  individuals 
  or 
  associations 
  who 
  may 
  be 
  interested 
  

   in 
  deciding 
  as 
  to 
  the 
  waters 
  to 
  be 
  stocked, 
  considers 
  their 
  suggestions 
  

   as 
  to 
  the 
  species 
  of 
  fish 
  best 
  suited 
  therefor, 
  and 
  rehes 
  upon 
  them 
  to 
  

   see 
  that 
  the 
  fish 
  furnished 
  are 
  properly 
  planted 
  in 
  the 
  waters 
  for 
  which 
  

   they 
  are 
  assigned. 
  

  

  While 
  this 
  branch 
  of 
  the 
  work 
  is 
  relatively 
  small, 
  constituting 
  only 
  

   about 
  5 
  per 
  cent 
  of 
  the 
  annual 
  output, 
  the 
  benefits 
  accruing 
  there- 
  

   from 
  are 
  considered 
  invaluable, 
  not 
  only 
  in 
  the 
  economic 
  sense 
  of 
  

   increasing 
  the 
  food 
  supply 
  by 
  the 
  utilization 
  of 
  many 
  waters 
  hereto- 
  

   fore 
  unproductive, 
  but 
  also 
  because 
  of 
  their 
  educational 
  effect 
  in 
  

   developing 
  and 
  fostering 
  a 
  sentiment 
  favorable 
  to 
  the 
  protection 
  and 
  

   growth 
  of 
  the 
  fisheries. 
  The 
  fishes 
  principally 
  produced 
  for 
  such 
  

   waters 
  are 
  several 
  of 
  the 
  native 
  trouts, 
  the 
  grayling, 
  the 
  black 
  basses, 
  

   crappies, 
  sunfishes, 
  and 
  catfishes. 
  

  

  Owing 
  to 
  the 
  practicability 
  of 
  hatching 
  the 
  eggs 
  of 
  the 
  trouts 
  by 
  

   artificial 
  means, 
  the 
  demands 
  for 
  such 
  species 
  can 
  readily 
  be 
  suppHed. 
  

   On 
  the 
  other 
  hand, 
  the 
  resources 
  for 
  the 
  production 
  of 
  the 
  Warm-Water 
  

   species, 
  commonly 
  known 
  as 
  "pond 
  fishes," 
  are 
  extremely 
  limited, 
  

   and 
  it 
  is 
  with 
  the 
  greatest 
  diSiculty 
  that 
  the 
  insistent 
  and 
  growing 
  

   demands 
  for 
  them 
  can 
  be 
  met. 
  These 
  fishes 
  must 
  of 
  necessity 
  be 
  

   cultivated 
  naturally 
  in 
  open 
  ponds 
  where 
  the 
  eggs 
  and 
  young 
  are 
  sub- 
  

  

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