PROPAGATION AND DISTRIBUTION OF FOOD FISHES, 

 FISCAL YEAR 1925^ 



By Glen C. Leach, Assistant in Charge, Division of Fish Culture 



CONTENTS 



Page. 



Introduction 44 1 



Part 1— FISH PRODUCTION: PROPAGATION AND RESCUE WORK 



Tabular summaries of operations 443 



Species of fishes handled 443 



Cooperation with States, other Federal agencies, and foreign govern- 

 ments : 444 



Output 445 



Assignments of fish eggs to State and Territorial fish commissions 446 



Shipments of fish and fish eggs to foreign countries and the Canal 



Zone 446 



Egg collections 446 



Fish-rescue work 447 



Stations and substations and output of each 448 



Transfers of eggs between stations 454 



Egg collecting at auxiliary stations 455 



Fish food used at hatcheries 456 



Hatchery fish-cultural notes 458 



Decision regulating fishing in the Quinault River 458 



Fish conservation in West Virginia 458 



Experimental feeding of young trout 458 



Successful stocking of Montana's largest lake with Great Lakes white- 

 fish 459 



Brood pike at Swanton, Vt 459 



Ripe halibut eggs 459 



Commercial fishes 459 



Pacific salmons 459 



Afognak (Alaska) station 460 



Yes Bay (Alaska) station 460 



Baker Lake (Wash.) station and substations 461 



Baker Lake (Wash.) station 461 



Birdsview (Wash.) substation 461 



Duckabush (Wash.) substation 462 



Quilcene (Wash.) substation 463 



Sultan (Wash.) substation 463 



Quinault (Wash.) station 463 



Clackamas (Oreg.) station and substations 464 



Clackamas (Oreg.) station 464 



Upper Clackamas (Oreg.) substation 464 



Little White Salmon (Wash.) substation 465 



Big White Salmon (Wash.) substation 465 



Rogue River (Oreg.) substation 465 



Applegate Creek (Oreg.) substation 465 



Salmon (Idaho) substation 465 



Sandy River (Oreg.) substation 466 



Baird (Calif.) station and substations 466 



Baird (Calif.) station 466 



Battle Creek (Calif.) substation 466 



Mill Creek (Calif.) substation 466 



1 Appendix IX to Report of U. S. Commissioner of Fisheries for 1925. B. F. Doc. No. 999. 



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