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IN 1913 IN 1002 



Striped Bass 7,234,000 



Yellow Bass 255 



Cod 227,812,000 212,001,000 



Pollock 563,799,000 



Haddock 126,125,000 



Flatfish 809,270,000 1 OS, 1:5:5,000 



Lobster 199,680,200 81,020,000 



Total 3,863,593,282 1,494,543,37 1 



The distribution of tins enormous output required 641,250 

 miles of travel, W,'5,.'>94 miles of which were performed by the 

 special ears of I lie Fisheries Bureau, and the remainder by 

 detached messengers. All transportation was paid for with 

 the exception of 12,314 miles of car service, and 81,355 miles 

 made by messengers. 



In order to obtain these enormous annual supplies of young 

 tisli and fish-eggs, covering forty-five species of food fishes, 

 the Government maintains thirty-four permanent fish-halch- 

 eries, open and operated all the year round, and one hundred 

 and two subhalchcrics, auxiliaries and egg-collecting stations. 

 These are scattered through thirty different stales and 

 Alaska. This industry may be regarded as a great ever- • 

 working machine, in constant operation lo put back seed- 

 stock in the place of what the commercial and other fishermen 

 annually take out of our waters. In addition to this many 

 states have stale hatcheries. The one recently finished by 

 the state of Kansas, at Pratt, under the direction of Professor 

 L. L. Dyche, is said to be the most extensive and mechanic- 

 ally perfect single hatchery thus far developed in America. 



The thirty-four permanent hatcheries of the National 

 Government may be classified as follows: 



