Excerpt from Bureau of Fisheries: Report of the Commissioners of Fisheries for the Fiscal Year 1908 and Special Papaers

The fish-cultural efforts of the Bureau in 1008 were directed chiefly to increasing the collection of eggs and the output of young fish. The possibilities of expansion and development in nearly every line arc almost unlimited-depending largely on the funds and trained men available for opening up new fields - but the public need and popular demand seem best subserved under the present circumstances by the concentration of efforts for immediate results in quantity in the fields already occupied. Thus, with the same funds as during the previous year, the hatcheries in 1908 yielded 376.000.000 fish more than in any other year, and delivered about 458, 000, 000 eggs to State and foreign hatcheries. The total output was over 2, 871, 000, 000 eggs and fish, of which over 2.400, 000, 000 were fish.

The conspicuous increases were in whitefish, silver, blueback, and humpback salmons, rainbow and brook trouts, Inrge-mouth and small-mouth black basses, yellow perch and white perch, cod, flatfish, and lobsters, all of which were produced in greater auantities than ever before. There was likewise an increase in shad, due largely to improved conditions in the Albemarle region of North Carolina. The output of lake trout and pike perch toll behind the 1007 record, as did also that of chinook salmon and Atlantic salmon. Fluctuations in the production of many of the fishes handled are, however, inevitable, being due to weather and other conditions which can not be controlled.

Following is a table summarizing the distributions of fish and fish eggs during the past year. Of these distributions 440, 161, 000 eggs, 4, 975, 000 fry, and 49, 800 older fish were delivered to various state fish commissions, and 3, 997, 725 eggs (salmon and trout) were shipped to foreign countries. On Lake Eric the Ohio and Pennsylvania fishery authorities cooperated with the Bureau in the collection of whitefish. lake-cisco, and pike-perch eggs.

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