REPORT OF THE COMMISSIONER OF FISHERIES. 
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At Yes Bay, Alaska, a telephone line has been run between the sta- 
tion and the boat landing, a distance of 17 miles, which will be of 
great assistance in operating the hatchery and has long been needed. 
A good foundation for racks, 8 feet wide and 250 feet long, has been 
made of heavy timbers, plank, rock, and gravel across the river at 
the lower end of the island. 
FISH-CULTURAL RELATIONS WITH FOREIGN COUNTRIES. 
For many years the Government of New Zealand has been intro- 
ducing American fishes into waters originally deficient in desirable 
food and game fishes. The experiments have been addressed largely 
to the salmons, trouts, and whitefishes, and the Bureau has made 
many consignments of the eggs of these fishes to this distant colony. 
The results of the introduction of the rainbow trout were manifested 
at an early date, and it has long been known that New Zealand affords 
the best rainbow-trout fishing to be had anywhere in the world ; over 
40,000 pounds have been taken by anglers in one season from two 
small lakes, and the value of this species to the colony for sport and 
food is becoming greater each year. It is only recently, however, 
that the outcome of the transplanting of other important species has 
been seen. From information communicated by the fish commis- 
sioner of New Zealand, it appears that the blueback or sockeye salmon 
has become established in some streams, and that the chinook salmon, 
resulting from eggs sent from the Bureau’s McCloud Biver station 
in 1901 and subsequent years, appeared in certain rivers in consider- 
able numbers in 1908 and 1909, and has already become the subject of 
artificial propagation, 238,000 eggs being collected in 1909. 
Dr. Gregory Antipa, inspector-general of fisheries in Roumania, 
has notified the Bureau of the desire of the Roumanian Government to 
present to the United States lots of young sturgeon from the Black 
Sea and Danube, with a view to their cultivation and the ultimate 
stocking of suitable east-coast rivers therewith. The condition of the 
sturgeon supply in all parts of the United States is most unsatisfac- 
tory, and the commercial extinction of the sturgeon in most streams 
is only a matter of a short time unless radical protective measures 
are taken by the various States. The efforts of the Bureau to propa- 
gate the native sturgeon on several of the leading rivers have been 
unfruitful, owing to inability to collect the eggs. The importation of 
new species is therefore well worthy of a trial. Several of the Rou- 
manian sturgeons are most desirable for their flesh and eggs, and 
their successful introduction to our waters would prove a great boon. 
