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REPORT OF THE COMMISSIONER OF FISHERIES. 
continue and become more effective so far as the resources and func- 
tions of the Bureau will permit. 
It is noted with regret that there is a desire on the part of some 
States to control, curtail, restrict, and handicap, by legislative action 
or official regulation, the work of the Bureau in artificial propaga- 
tion; and it may become necessary to resort to the courts to deter- 
mine the status and rights of federal fish-culture in state and inter- 
state waters in pursuance of acts of Congress. One of the latest 
exhibitions of this attitude of certain States is the case of Michigan^ 
whose legislature has taken entirely out of the Bureau’s hands the 
collection of eggs of the commercial fishes of the Great Lakes. No 
necessity for such a course was shown, and the action of the State was 
in opposition to the expressed wishes of the Bureau and inimical to 
the interests of fish preservation. 
Allotments aggregating 713,391,265 fertilized fish eggs were made 
by the Bureau to the fish commissions of the various States, as 
follows : 
Allotments of Fish Eggs to State Fish Commissions, Fiscal Yeae ended 
June 30 , 1909 .° 
State and species. 
Eggs. 
State and species. 
Eggs. 
California: 
Chinook salmon .... 
32,039,265 
New York— Continued. 
Landlocked salmon '. 
30.000 
20.000 
Connecticut: 
Rainbow trout 
Lake trout 
300,000 
30,000 
Blackspotted trout 
25,000 
Brook trout 
Ohio: 
White perch 
5,000,000 
10,000,000 
Pike perch 
158,725,000 
55,548,000 
Yellow perch 
Whitefish 
Illinois: 
Oregon: 
Rainbow trout 
50,000 
7,000,000 j 
25,000,000 
Chinook salmon 
6,581,000 
310.000 
100.000 
50,000 
Whitefish 
Brook trout 
Pike perch 
Blackspotted trout 
Maine: 
Steelhead trout 
Landlocked salmon 
300,000 
Pennsylvania: 
Brook trout . 
300,000 
Pike perch 
223,125,000 
3,000,000 
Maryland: 
Lake trout 
Rainbow trout 
50,000 
Blackspotted trout 
25.000 
75. 000 
White perch 
2,000,000 
Silver salmon 
Massachusetts: 
Whitefish... 
58,572,000 
Rainbow trout 
50,000 
Vermont: 
Michigan: 
Lake trout.. 
400,000 
Landlocked salmon 
30,000 
Washington: 
Lake trout.. 
3,500,000 
50,000,000 
Steelhead trout 
50,000 
Pike perch 
Wisconsin: 
Smelt 
22,500,000 
Lake trout 
12,126,000 
20,000,000 
Nevada: 
Whitefish 
Steelhead trout 
50,000 
Wyoming: 
New Hampshire: 
Grayling 
350,000 
Silver salmon 
50,000 
50,000 
300,000 
Brook trout 
50.000 
210,000 
10.000 
CO. 000 
Landlocked salmon 
Blackspotted trout 
Lake trout 
Landlocked salmon 
New York: 
Steelhead trout 
White perch 
Lake trout 
12,350,000 
3,000,000 
® Also there were allotted to California 7G5 crappie and strawberry bass, 3,600 bream, and 240 yellow- 
perch fingerlings, yearlings, and adults; to Colorado, 50,000 blackspotted-trout fry; to Minnesota, 4,420 
erappfe and strawberry bass and 816 largemouth black bass fingerlings, yearlings, and adults; and to New 
York, 200,000 brook-trout fry. 
In the collection of whitefish and pike-perch eggs on Lake Erie the 
Bureau had the active cooperation of the Ohio and Pennsylvania fish 
commissions. 
