PROPAGATION AND DISTRIBUTION OF FOOD FISHES, 19 30 1179 



The year's activities included no important construction work, and tlie few 

 minor repairs needed on slalion buildings were attended to by th(; regular 

 personnel. 



Aliccvillc (Ala.) substation. — The combined output of black bass and bream 

 from the four ponds available amounted to 46,1J50, which, under the conditions 

 existing is regarded as a very satisfactory year's work. Practically all of these 

 were delivered at the ponds to applicants who called for them. Another pond 

 approximately 2V2 acres in area, supplied by a flowing well, has been acquired 

 for the work in this field. 



I-AKE3LAND (MD.) PONDS 



[E. K. BuRNiiAM, acting in charge] 



During the spring of the calendar year 1029 the four principal ponds of 

 this system were stocked with largemouth black bass, crappie, and bream and 

 were used for the culture of the same species in the spring of 1930. Golden 

 shiners were planted as forage fish. The production resulting from these 

 plantings was distributed during the fall months as fingerlings, with the 

 exception of a few which were carried through the winter and planted as 

 yearlings in the spring of 1930. The 1930 hatches were trapped and distributed 

 as advanced fry before the close of the fiscal year. The total distribution from 

 these ponds during this period amounted to 193,800 of all species. 



CENTRAL STATION AND AQUARIUM, WASHINGTON, D. C. 



[Charles W. Burnham, Superintendent] 



The usual exhibit of live fish and aquatic animals was maintained 

 in the Central Station Aquarium throughout the year. Two thou- 

 sand four hundred and twenty-six individual specimens, representing 

 34 species, were shown in addition to eggs of the chinook salmon, cisco, 

 and pike perch, which were displayed throughout their incubation 

 and fry periods. Fry to the number of 2,607,500 were produced from 

 eggs thus incubated, while 380,737 fish were distributed to applicants 

 and planted in public waters in the Eastern States. Nearly all of 

 the latter number were hatched at the Lakeland (Md.) or the Fort 

 Humphreys (Va.) substation. 



Part 2.— DISTRIBUTION OF FISH AND FISH EGGS 



[E. C. Fearnow, Superintendent of Distribution] 



In view of the increased output of fingerling basses, trouts, and 

 other inland fishes, the distribution problem was quite difficult, espe- 

 cially during the summer and fall months when the four cars were 

 required to make shipments of fish from eight stations and substa- 

 tions. In addition to the 135 carload shipments of fish made during 

 the year, detached messengers, traveling in baggage cars, made 1,235 

 trips direct from the stations, with each messenger carrying from 

 20 to 40 pails of fish. 



The following table summarizes the distribution of fish and fish 

 eggs during the fiscal year to applicants in the United States and its 

 Territories. It also shows the plants of fish made by the bureau 

 in public waters of the country in connection with the propagation 

 of commercial fishes, and the salvage of fish from temporarily 

 flooded lands. 



