REPORT OF THE COMMISSIONER OF FISHERIES. 

 Allotments of Fish and Eggs, Etc.— Coutiiuied. 



Shipments of Fish and Eggs to Foreign Countries, Fiscal Year 1911. 



Notwithstanding the heavy increases in output shown from year 

 to year, it has been impossible to keep pace with the needs of public 

 and private waters. The rapidly increasing population and conse- 

 quent opening up of new territory, the changed physical conditions 

 of the country, continuous expansion of the fisheries, lax enforce- 

 ment of fishery laws by many States, and total disregard of fishery 

 interests by others — all of these causes combine to render imperative 

 the greatest possible exertions on the part of the Bureau. 



The benefits accruing from the Bureau's efforts are manifested 

 through the widespread interest in the work by people in all sections 

 of the country. The applications for food and game fishes received 

 during the year numbered 10,393, and over half of them were for 

 the black basses, crappies, sunfishes, and catfishes, for stocking arti- 

 ficial ponds on farms. The popularity of this branch of the work 

 is constantly increasing with the fuller realization that the mainte- 

 nance of private fishponds can be made a valuable adjunct of farming, 

 as a food supply for home consumption, and as a source of revenue. 



The species propagated in larger numbers in 1911 than in 1910 

 included the chinook salmon, steelhead trout, brook trout, rainbow 

 trout, grayling, pike perch, yellow perch, white perch, smallmouth 

 black bass, buffalofish, pollock, haddock, and lobster. The output 

 of Atlantic salmon was double that of any previous year. 



