PROPAGATION AND DISTRIBUTION OF FOOD FISHES, 1939 563 
national forests, there has been need for unusual cooperation with that 
agency. A new trout-rearing unit was under construction in the 
Alleghany National Forest in Pennsylvania, in accordance with plans 
developed and approved by the Bureau, with the expectation that 
the unit would be operated by this Bureau upon completion. 
The North Dakota Fish and Game Department donated to the 
Bureau the site for the new hatchery at Valley City, and further local 
assistance was received by the donation of pipe, a pump, etc. The 
North Carolina Fish and Game Department has contacted the 
Bureau freely and frequently relative to mutual problems, and it has 
been possible to render reciprocal assistance in the propagation of 
shad, the selection and inspection of hatchery sites for State develop- 
ment, and in the distribution of trout. A very large part of the pro- 
duction of the Marion (Ala.) station has been transported in State 
distribution trucks. 
At St. Louis, Mo., the city officials have approved the construction, 
at no cost to the Bureau, of a modern administration and service 
building in the Forest Park hatchery. The series of ponds in the 
municipal park system was taken over by the Bureau for operation 
shortly before the start of the fiscal year 1939, and results have been 
most gratifying. 
The State of Minnesota exhibited splendid cooperative spirit in 
donating to the Bureau a tract of land, together with the water rights, 
for the proposed hatchery at New London, and made available the 
services of its surveyors and engineers in acquiring additional property. 
Local interests raised a sum of money for the purchase of some of the 
additional acreage needed for the hatchery. The same cooperative 
assistance was obtained in Kansas, where the State Fish and Game 
Department donated water rights to a State-owned lake which is to 
serve as the primary water supply for the hatchery ponds. 
Ohio purchased and donated to the Bureau a splendid location for 
the new hatchery to be constructed in that State. In consideration 
of this courtesy the Bureau approved the relinquishment to the State 
of the Federal hatchery property at Put in Bay. However, such 
action requires Congressional sanction, and the necessary legislation 
had not been passed at the close of the year. 
Organized sportsmen’s groups throughout the country have sought 
technical advice on stocking problems and have submitted many 
applications for fish to be reared in nursery ponds sponsored and 
maintained by these organizations. 
ASSIGNMENTS OF FISH AND FISH EGGS TO STATES, TERRITORIES, 
AND FOREIGN COUNTRIES 
The transfer of approximately 166,000,000 fish and eggs to other 
fish-cultural agencies in the United States and its possessions was 
closely in line with the scope of such shipments in previous years. 
Forty States were the recipients of this form of Federal aid. In a 
number of cases the transfer was handled on an exchange basis, the 
Bureau being compensated by the State furnishing eggs or fish of 
needed species. The benefits in this procedure lie in the fact that 
many States were thus able to procure species which would be unob- 
tainable from other sources. Also, where State hatchery facilities 
are limited in capacity, the Bureau’s assignments have been the back- 
