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ment for administrative saving, however, made available $30,000 
which was held in reserve the previous year. The sum of $76,000 was 
added to the appropriation in order to finance the new Bristol Bay 
salmon investigation. An appropriation specifically for conserving 
fish by screens and ladders was provided in the amount of $20,000. 
By means of special deposit funds made available by the States of 
Virginia and Maine, investigations were conducted on the oyster and 
lobster fisheries, respectively. Large allotments of Public Works Ad- 
ministration and Works Progress Administration funds made possible 
the construction projects undertaken by the Division to improve the 
biological stations at Milford, Conn., Beaufort, N. C., and Pensacola, 
Fla., as well as to construct fish screens in the States of Washington, 
Oregon, and Idaho. In addition to these projects statistical work on 
old fishery records was conducted at Cambridge, Mass., Ann Arbor, 
Mich., and Stanford University, Calif. About one-third of the 
emergency funds and about one-half of the two regular appropria- 
tions was spent in the calendar year 1938. A statement of funds 
available for biological investigations is given below: 



Project 1938 1939 
Regular appropriations: 
Commercial fishery investigations__._----.-------- $133, 181 $222, 300 
Oyster cultural investigations_—-_.....-...-------- 50. 579 50, 620 
AcMmeulLune Investigations=——-......-+-.-.----=s= 42, 500 46, 880 
Conserving fish by sereens and ladders__---------- 1, 500 20, 000 
NibCLACetiinvaStUGleseee oe - hey ee eee Ee ee 11, 100 
Washington laboratory and administration_-_-_------ 4, 240 7, 100 
Notale oo eS A eo eee a et toe 232, 000 358, 000 
Allotment for travelling expenses-_-_-_------------ 27, 000 31, 620 
Allotment for maintenance and operation of vessels_ 29, 000 30, 450 
Special funds: 
Manmnemoulimogstuaiese=..- ...-.-=.38-2--s- 2 =--- 15000 Sa ea eee 
StatetotVironmianoyster tund=-.-..0 eee = =. ala le eee ek 5, 000 
Pater amenopscer fund... ......27-.-2--.+2.-/ees-<2-2-- 2, 500 
Pubiceworks Admimistration projects=-.2-22-==2=--|=-=--—----—— 281, 050 
WWarks Progress Administration projects.__..-----=.[+-..-.--=.- 127, 645 

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