238 Uniled Suites of America 



South Dakota State Department of Game, Fish 

 and Parks, Fisheries Division 



POSTAL address: Woonsocket, South Dakota, USA. 

 EXECUTIVE officer: James T. Shields, Superintendent 



of Fisheries, Department of Game, Fish and Parks, 



Pierre, South Dakota. 

 SPONSORING AGENCIES: U. S. Government and State of 



South Dakota. 



YEAR FOUNDED: 1949. 



SCOPE OF ACTIVITIES: Restricted research concerned 



with statewide fisheries investigations. 

 SEASON OF OPERATION: All year. 

 PHYSICAL ENVIRONMENT ACCESSIBLE: Fresh-water 



rivers, streams, lakes and reservoirs. 

 PROVISIONS FOR VISITING SCIENTISTS: None. 



MAJOR RESEARCH FACILITIES: Small library; large out- 

 door ponds and tanks, small aquarium tanks; limited 

 collections of fish; machine and wood shop; small boats 

 and outboard motors. 



SIZE OF staff: Six at professional level. 



MAJOR CURRENT RESEARCH PROJECTS AND SCIENTIFIC 

 LEADERS: 



Large impoundment studies (Ned E. Fogle and James 



W. Sprague) 

 Small lakes studies (Marvin F. Boussu and Don T. 



Weber) 

 Trout water studies (R. Keith Stewart) 



SCOPE OF activities: Laboratories function primarily 

 for research on fishery resources and their management, 

 but unrestricted research on general marine and fresh- 

 water biology is encouraged. 



season of OPERATION: All year. 



PHYSICAL ENVIRONMENT ACCESSIBLE: Gulf of MexicO 



and coastal embayments; sandy and silty beaches and 

 brackish, shallow bays; oligothrophic lakes, rivers and 

 streams. 



PROVISIONS FOR VISITING SCIENTISTS: None. Living 

 quarters available nearby. 



MAJOR RESEARCH FACILITIES: Small library; running 

 brackish water at Rockport, large outdoor ponds and 

 tanks and small aquarium tanks at San Marcos; ma- 

 chine and wood shop at San Marcos and Rockport; 

 skiffs and outboards; 12 cabin cruisers 21 ft to 36 ft 

 LOA, and a 39 ft LOA bay shrimp trawler. 



SIZE OF staff: Forty at professional level; 23 techni- 

 cians. 



MAJOR CURRENT RESEARCH PROJECTS: 



Fisheries, shrimp, crab, and oyster investigations of 



all bays 

 Limnological studies and management of lakes and 



streams 

 Pollution abatement and control 

 PUBLICATIONS ISSUED: Bullet'uis of Texas Game and 

 Fish Commission, Marine Laboratory Series 



Texas State Game and Fish Commission Labor- 

 atories 



POSTAL ADDRESS: 



Marine Laboratory, P. O. Box 1117, Rockport, Texas, 

 USA. 



Field Laboratory: Seabrook, Texas. 



Fish Hatchery Laboratory: San Marcos, Texas. 

 EXECUTIVE officers: Terrance R. Leary, Coordinator, 



Coastal Fisheries. Marion Toole, Coordinator, Inland 



Fisheries. 

 YEAR FOUNDED: Marine Laboratory, 1946; Fish 



Hatchery Laboratory, 1948. 



TEXAS .STATE GAME AND FISH COMMISSION LABORATORIES 



United States Department of the Interior, 

 Fish and Wildlife Service, Bureau of 

 Commercial Fisheries 



POSTAL ADDRESS: 



Headquarters: Washington 25, D.C., USA. 



Branch laboratories: 



1. Biological Laboratory, Ann Arbor, Michigan 



2. Biological Laboratory, Auke Bay, Alaska 



3. Biological Laboratorj', Beaufort, North Carolina 



4. Biological Laboratory, Boothbay Harbor, Maine 



5. Biological Laboratory, Brunswick, Georgia 



6. Biological Laboratory, Galveston, Texas 



7. Biological Laboratory, Gulf Breeze, Florida 



8. Biological Laboratory, Honolulu, Hawaii 



9. Biological Laboratory. La Jolla, California 



10. Biological Laboratory, Milford, Connecticut 



11. Biological Laboratory, Oxford, Marj-land 



12. Biological Laboratory, San Diego, California 



13. Biological Laboratory, Seattle, Washington 



14. Biological Laboratory (Fish Passage Research), 

 Seattle, Washington (Not described in the 

 Directory. ) 



15. Biological Laboratory (Marine Mammal Re- 

 search, Seattle, Washington (Not described in 

 the Directory.) 



16. Biological Laboratory, Stanford, California 



17. Biological Laboratory, Washington, D. C. 



