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attributable to more efficient methods and in few instances to more 

 favorable weather and water conditions. 



In connection with this work there is carried on a cooperative 

 rearing pond system under which sportsmen's organizations receive 

 fish from Federal hatcheries and retain them for feeding and rearing 

 in ponds or, in several instances, complete hatchery units owned, 

 developed, and maintained by the cooperating organization. Ap- 

 parently economic conditions curtailed the funds which sportsmen 

 could spend for this work and a smaller number of organizations to 

 which a smaller number of fish were allotted cooperated with the 

 bureau during the fiscal year 1932. 



RESCUE OPERATIONS 



The salvage of fishes stranded in the overflowed areas of the 

 upper Mississippi River, principally in the Upper Mississippi Wild 

 Life and Fish Refuge, was conducted on a much restricted basis dur- 

 ing 1932. This was because water conditions rendered salvage work 

 impracticable or unnecessary to a considerable degree, with the result 

 that the collections of 51,611,367 represent less than one-third of the 

 figures for the previous record year. 



STATISTICAL SURVEYS 



FISHERIES or THE UNITED STATES, 1930 



New England States. — During 1930 the fisheries of Maine, New 

 Hampshire, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and Rhode Island employed 

 17,077 fishermen, or a decrease of less than one-half of 1 per cent 

 under 1929. The catch amounted to 701,350,979 pounds, valued at 

 $27,493,479 — an increase of 1 per cent in the catch, but a decrease of 

 5 per cent in value as compared with 1929. Landings of fish by 

 American vessels at Boston and Gloucester, Mass., and Portland, 

 Me., amounted to 350,801,470 pounds as landed, valued at $12,- 

 785,452 — an increase of 7 per cent in volume over 1929. 



Middle Atlantic States. — During 1930 the fisheries of New York, 

 New Jersey, Pennsylvania, and Delaware employed 10,605 fishermen, 

 or 1 per cent more than in 1929. The catch amounted to 193,867,981 

 pounds, valued at $13,063,672 — an increase of 2 per cent in the catch, 

 but a decrease of 8 per cent in its value as compared with 1929. 

 Landings of fish at New York City and Groton, Conn., amounted to 

 57,255,000 pounds, or 24 per cent less than in 1929. On the Hudson 

 River the shad fishery was carried on by 243 fishermen who caught 

 206,504 pounds of shad, valued at $33,372 — a slight increase over 

 1929. 



Chesapeake Bay States. — In the calendar year 1930 the fisheries of 

 Maryland and Virginia employed 19,391 fishermen, or 5 per cent 

 more than in 1929. The catch amounted to 316,392,924 pounds, 

 valued at $11,472,050 — an increase of 15 per cent in the catch, but a 

 decrease of 1 per cent in its value as compared with the previous 

 year. The shad and alewife fisheries of the Potomac River were 

 prosecuted by 608 fishermen, who caught 601,193 pounds of shad, 

 valued at $98,041, and 3,114,918 pounds of alewives, valued at 

 $49,315. 



