BUREAU OF FISHERIES IX 



More than 15 States have cooperated with the bureau in fish- 

 cultural work. This aid includes the joint operation of hatcheries, 

 aid in collection of eggs, and exchange or transfer of eggs to meet 

 demands which could not otherwise be fulfilled. In the Rocky 

 Mountain section a program of investigation of waters in the na- 

 tional forests has been developed to formulate an adequate stocking 

 and rearing policy along scientific lines. Similar investigations are 

 being conducted in the Yellowstone, Teton, and Glacier National 

 Parks. The Bureau of Indian Affairs has aided in the collection 

 of trout eggs on the Pyramid Lake Reservation. In cooperation 

 with the Bureau of Reclamation attempts are being made to de- 

 velop a program for the protection of fisheries which may be affected 

 by irrigation and reclamation projects under Federal control. As a 

 basic industry the fisheries should be accorded proper consideration 

 and treatment. Reference is made elsewhere to the extensive co- 

 operation with private sportsmen's organizations in the rearing of 

 fish to fingerling or adult size for stocking purposes. 



The Pacific and Great Lakes States have been particularly helpful 

 in the collection of fishery statistics. More recently Maryland and 

 Virginia have installed more complete systems for the collection 

 of such data. Last year many of the States in the Mississippi River 

 section contributed personnel to aid in the canvass of that area. In 

 this as in many of its activities the bureau represents the correlating 

 agency, performing necessary service beyond the scope of the indi- 

 vidual States. 



The bureau's technological program has been materially broadened 

 by cooperation with other agencies. At the South Carolina Food 

 Research Commission one of its investigators is studying the anti- 

 ansemic properties of oysters in collaboration with investigators at 

 that institution. The bureau is also cooperating with the Ohio State 

 Agricultural Experiment Station, Wooster, Ohio, and the North 

 Carolina State Agricultural Experiment Station, Raleigh, N. C, in 

 the feeding of fishery products to farm animals. In cooperation with 

 the United States Department of Agriculture and jDroducers of kelp 

 meal, nutritive studies of kelp meal are in progress. At Gloucester, 

 Mass., local fishing interests are making material contributions to the 

 maintenance of the bureau's technological laboratory located in that 

 city in providing laboratory space without cost to the Government. 



In Alaska during the past calendar year the bureau transported 

 more than 50 employees of other Government agencies on its vessels 

 and in many other ways it has rendered service to Federal and 

 Territorial representatives in that section. 



mTE-YEAR CONSTRUCTION TROGRAM 



Under the authorization of the act of May 21, 1930 (46 Stat. 371), 

 appropriations for augmenting of the bureau's fish-cultural facilities 

 in the amount of $448,500 were made available for the continuation 

 of projects previously initiated and for the incej^tion of several new 

 ones. There were placed in operation during the year the new ex- 

 perimental hatchery in West Virginia and a sorely needed bass 

 hatchery in New Mexico. The establishment at Natchitoches, La., 

 was largely completed but not placed in operation. Development 

 work at a substation near Leadville, Colo., and a hatchery in central 



