The United States Fish and Wildlife Service is a U.S. federal government agency within the United States Department of the Interior which oversees the management of fish, wildlife, and natural habitat
Patrol vehicles of the Fish & Wildlife Service in Alaska, 1950.
Biologist examining a baby alligator in the Big Branch Marsh National Wildlife Refuge
Biologist with a Canada warbler in Silvio O. Conte National Fish and Wildlife Refuge
Bozeman National Fish Hatchery
The United States Fish Commission, formally known as the United States Commission of Fish and Fisheries, was an agency of the United States government created in 1871 to investigate, promote, and pres
United States Fish and Wildlife Service
…of the American people". The original ancestor of the agency was the United States Commission on Fish and Fisheries, more commonly referred to as the United States Fish Commission, created in 1871 by the United States Congress with the purpose of studying and recommending solutions to a noted decline in the stocks of food fish…
USFC Fish Hawk, c. 1900.
Hoist and winch on Fish Hawk, used by Commissioner Spencer Fullerton Baird and Professor Addison Emery Verrill in exploration of the New England coast, c. 1885.
USFC Albatross in the 1890s.
Fish Commission buildings and docks at Woods Hole, Massachusetts, c. 1892.