? Display at the Fair" Educate the^Public 



Since our last biannial report, your Commission has erected a building at the 

 State Fair grounds in Helena for the purpose of making a display of the fish of 

 Montana at all annual State fairs. 



The object to be accomplished by the expenditure of the money for building was 

 to increase the interest of the people at large in the subject of fish cultivation and 

 propagation, as well as the stocking of streams. The building has proved to be 

 a very attractive place for visitors at the State Fair grounds, and we have been 

 able since the year 1916 to make exhibits of native, as well as other fish found in 

 the waters of Montana, without appreciable loss. It is hoped that, by annually mak- 

 ing such an exhibit as our facilities may allow, we may be able to show the pro- 

 gress of your Commission in the introduction of new species of fish suitable for the 

 waters of Montana, and also to increase the consumption of fish as a food. Efforts 

 in the direction of increasing the consumption of fish have been made by the gen- 

 eral Government with some success, and during the past three years many species 



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which were not considered eatable have become a common article of food, par- 

 ticularly along the Atlantic coast, and in places where many varieties are found,, 

 some of which have not heretofore been considered suitable for consumption as 

 food. In this connection it may be well for us to call attention to the fact that 

 many of the course fishes found in Montana like the squaw fish, sucker and carp 

 are excellent food and while some of the species mentioned contain more small 

 bones than the trout, it is still a fact that all of the course fish mentioned are 

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