PROPAGATION AND DISTRIBUTION OF FOOD FISHES, FISCAL 



YEAR, 193P 



By Glen C. Leach, Chief, Division of Fish Culture 



CONTENTS 



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Introduction 629 



Part 1. — Fish Production: Propagation and Rescue Work 



Species handled 630 



Output 631 



Cooperation with other conservation agencies 632 



Cooperative fish nurseries 634 



State fish-cultural activities 637 



Salvage of food fishes 640 



Transfers of eggs between stations : 640 



Shipments to foreign countries 643 



Output of stations and substations 643 



Egg collections 650 



Fish-cultural notes 651 



Five-year expansion program 651 



Fish food 652 



Black-spotted trout egg collections at Pyramid Lake, Nev 652 



Bass ponds at Cape Vincent, N. Y 652 



Grayling operations at Grebe Lake, Wyo 652 



Successful pond fish work in Montana 653 



Fish hatchery site. Mount Rainier, Wash 653 



Effects of the drought 653 



Commercial species 654 



r^ ^Pacific salmon 654 



Afognak (Alaska) station 654 



Yes Bay (Alaska) station 655 



Birdsview (Wash.) station and substations 655 



Birdsview (Wash.) station 656 



Baker Lake (Wash.) substation 656 



Duckabush (Wash.) substation 656 



Quilcene (Wash.) substation 657 



Walcotts Slough (Wash.) substation 657 



Sultan (Wash.) substation 657 



Lake Crescent (Wash.) State trout hatchery 657 



Quinault (Wash.) station 658 



Clackamas (Oreg.) station and substations 658 



Clackamas (Oreg.) station 658 



Upper Clackamas (Oreg.) substation 659 



Little White Salmon (Wash.) substation 659 



Big White Salmon (Wash.) substation 659 



Rogue River (Oreg.) substation 659 



Applegate Creek (Oreg.) substation .- 659 



Salmon (Idaho) substation 660 



Baird (Calif.) station and substations 660 



Battle Creek (Calif.) substation 660 



Mill Creek (Calif.) substation 660 



'Approved for publication, December 18, 1931. 



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