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the figures whicli will ap})car in t.lu' I'nited States report soon to 

 l)e published for the fiscal year ending June 30th, IDO'-^, will 

 show a very gratifying increase in the beneficient results of the 

 work of the United States Fish Commission, in every line of pro- 

 ductivity ; and I am pleased to notice that whenever we write to 

 congressmen, in Ixdialf of the commission, to aid us, or to be 

 helpful along the lines of supporting the United States Fish 

 Pommission, and indirectly the other commissions, they invari- 

 ably reply that they are heart and soul with the fish commission 

 and wish to render it every aid possil^le. We have a grand total 

 here of a billion and a half distril)ution of fish during the last 

 year, wdiile for the previous year it was a little over a billion. 

 This increase is shown in nearly all the lines of production, a 

 very gratifying result, and one that gives us all encouragement 

 to go on. 



The report furnished me is as follows : 



SUMMARY OF DISTRIBUTION, 



I should be very glad if wo had n 1)rief presentment to show 

 what had been accomplislied by tlie various states. J can only 



