THE UNITED STATES BUREAU OF FISHERIES 
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The United States Bureau of Fisheries has not 
entered into the business of procuring legislative 
enactments for the regulation of fisheries, but 
has left that work to the various states concerned. 
Its greatest efforts have been put forth in stock- 
ing new waters with desirable food fishes, and in 
restocking waters that have been depleted of 
their natural supply of fishes. 
The importance of the fish-propagating meas- 
ures of the national government can hardly be 
overestimated. The map of the United States 
is dotted over, from corner to corner, with 
the fish-hatching stations of the Bureau. In 
number they are thirty-nine, and they have 
been located with a view to the propagation 
and distribution of practically all the most de- 
sirable species which by their habits of life are 
available for such operations. It is of general 
interest to state the locations of the fish-hatch- 
ing stations now (1903) actively at work, taking 
eggs, hatching them, and distributing both eggs 
and young fish. They are situated as follows: 
L Green Lake. 
at.,; ,, « q. ' Craig; Brook. 
Maine, 3. ‘ Grand Lake 
( Stream. 
Vermont: St. Johnsbury. 
New Hampshire: Nashua. 
o.3 Gloucester. 
Mass. 2:] Wood>sHol , 
New York: Cape Vincent. 
\ Battery Sta- 
Marylancl, 2:< tion. 
( Bryan Point. 
District of j Cefral Sta- 
Columbia: ) pish Lakes. 
North Carolina: Edenton. 
Virginia: Wytheville. 
Tennessee: Erwin. 
Ohio: Put-in-Bay. 
I Northville. 
Michigan, 4: - Detroit. 
( SaultSte. Marie. 
Minnesota: Duluth. 
Illinois: Quincy. 
Iowa: Manchester. 
Missouri: Neosho. 
Texas: San Marcos. 
Colorado: Leadville. 
Of still greater interest to all catchers and 
consumers of fish is the answer to the question, 
“What are the fishes that are being propagated 
and planted by the United States Bureau of Fish- 
eries?” A full answer will constitute an ex- 
cellent showing of the Bureau’s estimate of 
the comparative values of our best food fishes ; 
but at the same time due allowance must be 
made for the things which are and are not pos- 
sible in fish hatching. 
Distribution of Eggs and Live Fish by the 
United States Bureau of Fisheries, during 
the Year which ended July 1, 1902. 
Shad 106,986,000 
Quinnat Salmon 48,683,718 
Atlantic Salmon 638,765 
Landlocked Salmon. . . . 822,220 
Silver Salmon 424,530 
Blueback Salmon 3,371,000 
Steelhead Trout 534,882 
Lock Leven Trout 96,760 
Rainbow Trout 1,675,121 
Black-Spotted Trout . . . 1,868,500 
Brook Trout 6,579,762 
Lake Trout 27,260,490 
Scotch Sea Trout 24,531 
Golden Trout 69,950 
Grayling 1,803,258 
Whitefish 594,490,000 
Pike-Perch 237,099,575 
Pickerel 805 
Catfish 95,970 
Yellow Perch 1,700 
Buffalo Fish. 200,000 
Black Bass 262,157 
Crappie 735,120 
Strawberry Bass 3,551 
Rock Bass 37,170 
Warmouth Bass 100 
Sunfish and Bream 623,739 
Cod 212,001,000 
Flat-Fish 168,133,000 
Total, 
Lobster. . 
1,414,523,374 
81,020,000 
1,495,543,374 
Of the above, 99 per cent were in the interest 
of the commercial fisheries, and 1 per cent, or 
14,900,000, were game fishes. The number of 
applications for fish to stock interior waters 
was 3,814, and the distributing cars of the 
Bureau of Fisheries travelled 95,259 miles, and 
sixty-eight railways furnished free transportation 
for 29,616 fish cars and 68,940 trips' of messen- 
gers. 
In the matter of fish propagation and distri- 
bution for the stocking of new or depleted waters, 
the national government stands pre-eminent. 
The only defect in its policy lies in its failure to 
protect existing fisheries from over-fishing, and 
from such reckless waste as is now destroying 
the salmon fisheries of Alaska. 
