66 REPORT OP THE COMMISSIONER OF FISHERIES. 



Miscellaneous expenses : 



Administration $12, 000 



Propagation of food fishes 300,000 



Inquiry respecting food fishes 35,000 



Statistical inquiry 7, 500 



Maintenance of vessels 58,000 



Protecting seal fisheries 150,000 



Supplies for native inhabitants, seal islands 19, 500 



Specials : 



Continuation of biological station, Fairport, Iowa 40, 000 



Continuation of fish-cultural station. Homer, Minn 25,000 



Purchase of launch for Mississippi River (reappropriated) 8,000 



An itemized statement of expenditures authorized by the foregoing 

 appropriations has been made, as required by law. 



RECOMMENDATIONS. 



RELATIONS WITH THE STATES. 



In its fish-cultural work in the various States the Bureau has no 

 interests or purposes that are foreign to those of the States. In fact, 

 all its operations are necessarily for the immediate benefit of the 

 citizens of the States, and there should be the closest cooperation 

 between the Federal and State authorities. Congress has imposed 

 certain duties on the Bureau of Fisheries, and the fulfillment of those 

 duties can best be achieved by the active support of the States. 



Most of the States fully appreciate the necessity for cooperation 

 and act accordingly. Some, however, are pursuing a course which 

 results in the practical annulment of all the fish-cultural efforts of the 

 Federal Government and of local agencies, through failure to enact 

 and enforce legislation the nature of which and the necessity for 

 which are often most obvious, while other States that are and long 

 have been large recipients of the Government's bounty have enacted 

 laws or adopted regulations that have the effect, if they do not have 

 the object, of handicapping and of making more expensive, and there- 

 fore less extensive, the fish-cultural operations evidently contemplated 

 by Congress and determined on by the Bureau after full consid- 

 eration. 



In previous years attention has been called to these matters, and 

 the present report makes mention of some current phases of the sub- 

 ject. Under the circumstances that exist the Bureau has reason to 

 feel that it is incumbent on the States, if they desire Government aid 

 in the maintenance and improvement of their fisheries, to manifest 

 it unmistakably by the repeal of inimical measures and by the enact- 

 ment of proper legislation; to show some regard for the Bureau's 

 recommendation in respect to laws which affect its operations; and 

 at least to refrain from legislative and regulative acts that serve only 

 to retard and embarrass. 



