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from females producing approximately 1,300 eggs per pound of fish, 
which eyed 90 percent or more. Trout eggs were shipped to a number 
of Bureau stations. The number of warm-water fishes produced was 
limited by the small amount of available pond area (6.776 acres). 
Due to unseasonable weather which previled during the spawning 
season, the bass production was unusually small. The schools of bass 
fry apparently broke up much younger this year than usual because 
of high winds during the batching season. The total output of all 
sizes of bass for the year was 24,940. 
The cooperative substation at Bourbon, Mo., materially increased 
its production of rainbow-trout eggs, and 91 percent of the green eggs 
taken were eyed. 
The production of trout from the Cape Vincent (N. Y.) station and 
its auxiliaries at Cortland, Watertown, and Barneveld, was approxi- 
mately 1 million, several thousand of which were of legal size. The 
activities with pondfish were confined entirely to the propagation of 
smallmouth black bass, with an output of this species in excess of 
150,000 fingerlings—an increase of more than 60 percent over last 
year’s production. 
APPALACHIAN AND BLUE RIDGE TROUT STATIONS 
The Pisgah Forest (N. C.) station, which is located on the Davidson 
River in the Pisgah Forest and operated in cooperation with the 
Forest Service, liberated its production in waters within the Federal 
area in which it is located. The various waters were stocked in accord- 
ance with a program formulated on data collected from stream surveys 
made by the Division of Scientific Inquiry. It was very difficult to 
hold the trout over the winter, as the temperature of the water 
remained at 32° F. for several days, causing as much as 6 inches of 
ice to form on the ponds during a single night. 
The Smokemont (N. C.) hatchery, which is located in the Great 
Smoky Mountains National Park, reported a production of 177,560 
brook and raimbow trout ranging in length from 3 to 6 inches. These 
trout were utilized in restocking waters of the Great Smoky Mountains 
National Park and the Cherokee Indian Reservation. The present 
water-supply system at Smokemont is unsatisfactory for fish-cultural 
purposes and the National Park Service has under consideration the 
construction of an open flume, or raceway to replace the present 
metallic underground pipe. In the meantime, it is the intention to 
incubate some trout eggs during the coming season at the Walhalla 
(S. C.) hatchery, and transfer the resulting fish to Smokemont when 
they are approximately 1 inch long. 
The output of rainbow, brook, and brown trout at the Walhalla 
hatchery was in excess of 400,000. While 52,445 of these fish were 
assigned directly to the Forest Service, 231,000 were transferred to 
the Nantahala and Chattahoochee National Forest rearing units 
where they were held until fall before being liberated in the streams 
of those two public areas. At the end of the year, approximately 
500,000 fingerling trout of the three species handled were on hand at 
Walhalla. 
The majority of the fish produced in all of the trout hatcheries and 
rearing units in this area are now being planted according to a care- 
fully planned program. Game-fish management is undergoing a 
