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Es. 4,000 aDd Es. 7,600 and recurring charges of Es. 1,538 and 

 Es. 4,044 respectively towards the execution of schemes. The 

 District Boards of Chingleput and Nellore have been granted 

 compensation at the rate of Es. 2,800 and Es. 7,000 per annum 

 respectively on account of fishery rentals derived from the 25 and 

 110 tanks transferred to the control of this department. Ponds and 

 sheds at the various breeding and stocking stations were under 

 construction, 



60. The receipts from inland fisheries amounted to Es. 76,564 

 as against Es. 77,297 in the previous year. The receipts exceeded 

 the expenditure by Es. 21,381 as against Es. 20,573 in 1918-19. 

 An inquiry was made as to the market-price of fish before the war in 

 selected places in the Presidency and it was found that the percent- 

 age of increase in price varies from 30 per cent to 50 per cent. 

 Assuming that the rise in the market-price of fish is 50 per cent, 

 there is a raargm of '<::'0 per cent increase in the rentals as the 

 increase over the compensation paid to local bodies (which is based 

 on the average rentals for five years) works out at more than 70 per 

 cent. Prom this it may be concluded that the stocking operations 

 have resulted in an increase in the rentals and therefore presumably 

 in the stocks of fish available. 



61. Fiah'farms. — At Sunkesula carp and eiroplm were bred in 

 the farm and distributed to the Cuddapah-Kurnool canal and to the 

 selected tanks in the Ceded districts. The silting up of the Tunga- 

 bhadra in the neighbourhood of the farm has caused great difiiculties 

 in obtaining an adequate supply of water during the dry weather. 

 It is therefore desirable to transfer the fish-farm to another place. 

 The sites finally selected are Praema and Mahanandi in Nandyal 

 taluk. The scheme is under investigation by the Public Works 

 Department. In the fish market at Kurnool, 509 lb. of murrel and 

 ],826 lb. of carp reared in the Sunkesula farm were sold for Es. 334. 



62. The etroplus introduced last year into the farm at Ippur in 

 Nellore district bred on a large scale and it was possible for the first 

 time to distribute the fry of this non-indigenous fish to the tanks 

 served by this farm. The tanks were also supplied with mullets. 

 About 12,600 larvicidal fish were supplied to local boards and private 

 persons. 



63. The general work of the powder factory farm at Madras was 

 satisfactory, but owing to an unusual inundation during the rains a 

 large number of murrel and fresh-water sharks managed to enter the 

 breeding-pond despite the wire-net fence and destroyed a large 

 number of the gourami fry bred this year. The pond has since been 

 drained, the gourami being transferred temporarily to a private 

 pond in the Hydari Gardens. After the predaceous fish had been 



