Our country and its resources; . FISH CULTURAL STATION, B0ZEMAN, MONTANA 72 OIK COUNTRY AND ITS RESOURCES condition of the seal herd. A com-plete census of the seals shows L! f,s7. ail increase of nearly L!;MHianimals over the year 1913. TheL915 census has not yet been com-pleted but indicates an increase of60,000 animals over 1014. M l SSEL The Bureau Of Fisheries has beenconducting a general canvass offresh-water mussel fishing, whichha:, been in progress for several with supervision of propagation anddistribution of food and game fishesand scientific investigations into all matters
Our country and its resources; . FISH CULTURAL STATION, B0ZEMAN, MONTANA 72 OIK COUNTRY AND ITS RESOURCES condition of the seal herd. A com-plete census of the seals shows L! f,s7. ail increase of nearly L!;MHianimals over the year 1913. TheL915 census has not yet been com-pleted but indicates an increase of60,000 animals over 1014. M l SSEL The Bureau Of Fisheries has beenconducting a general canvass offresh-water mussel fishing, whichha:, been in progress for several with supervision of propagation anddistribution of food and game fishesand scientific investigations into all matters pertaining to tisli. In 1914the enormous quantity of 44i88,757,-^<H» tish and ova were greater proportion of this, ofcourse, was egg and not tish. butfingerling, yearling and adult tishnumbered over 58,000,000, an in-crease of 150 per cent over this number, salmon, trout andbass contributed the larger SPAWNING TROUT AT NEOSHO,HATCHERY MO., FISH CULTURAL STATION, WYTHE-VILLE, VA. years on the streams inland. Thecanvass covered in 1914 includedtributaries to the Great Lakes andthe Ohio anil Mississippi thousand nine hundred andfifty-two persons were engaged intaking mussels in the streams underconsideration and in preparing themfor the market The mussel fisher-ies hail an output of _::..117 tons ofshells, valued at $382,210, and yield-ed pearls worth $164,261. The shellsare used iii the manufactlire of pearlbuttons. Bl BEAT] OP Fisii i BEES The Bureau <(the bureau is more spectacular than its development of a new tish indus-try—the catching and marketing oftile tish. This edible and nutritivelish was practically unknown in themarket prior to October of with November. 1915, andup to August, 1916, 6,938,000 poundsof tile lish have been taken and mar-keted for $255
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