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CONSTRUCTION ACTIVITIES 



Major construction activities were concerned witli the establish- 

 ment of four new hatcheries, as authorized by the act of May 21, 1930. 

 The 1938 appropriations act carried an item of $155,000 for this pur- 

 pose. The new hatcheries were, by law, allocated to tlie States of 

 Florida, Nevada, Georgia, and Mississippi. After a careful prelimi- 

 nary survey the Secretary of Commerce approved locations at Mari- 

 anna, Fla., Las Vegas, Nev., Cohutta, Ga., and Lyman, Miss. 



The delay incident to acquiring title to the sites deferred the start- 

 ing of actual construction until late in tiie year and none of the estab- 

 lishments were completed at the close of the year. However, a 

 limited number of fish were produced at Lyman, Miss. The Nevada 

 project consisted of a small hatchery which had been previously oper- 

 ated by the city of Las Vegas. This was donated to the Bureau and a 

 program of enlargement and improvement was undertaken. One 

 other site was also acquired by donation. All hatcheries were devel- 

 oped to the point where they were in readiness for some fish production 

 during the fiscal year 1939. All of these hatcheries will produce 

 warm-water species. 



At Carson, Wash., the development of a trout and salmon hatch- 

 ery, started in the fiscal year 1938, was continued until the exhaus- 

 tion of available funds. A hatchery, service buildings, water-supply 

 system, and several dwellings for personnel were provided, leaving a 

 further need for rearing ponds. 



During the year the Farm Security Administration transferred to 

 the Bureau of Fisheries a site at Arcadia, R. I., for development as a 

 bass hatchery. Preliminary development work on a cooperative 

 basis 'wdtli the Farm Securit}^ Administration was undertaken, but 

 the major part of the construction remained to be done during the 

 succeeding fiscal year. 



Some repairs and improvements at the older hatcheries were 

 eftected by the setting up of local W. P. A. projects. The most 

 important of these were for the complete rehabilitation of the Harts- 

 ville, Mass., and the Wliite Sulphur Springs, W. Va., stations. By 

 the utilization of funds from the regular appropriations as a sponsor's 

 contribution, it is possible to carry out extensive improvements 

 under such procedure. 



At the close of the fiscal year there had been approved an allocation 

 of $808,500 from the Public Works Administration, and $500,050 

 from the Works Progress Administration. These amounts, which 

 were to be disbursed by the Bureau, covered a broad program of 

 improvement and enlargement at practically all of the hatcheries, 

 the purpose being to put all of the properties in the best possible 

 physical condition and thus add materially to their operating efficiency. 

 No work had started on these projects at the close of the fiscal year. 



COOPERATION WITH OTHER CONSERVATION AGENCIES 



Among the administrative procedures most valuable in conducting 

 the Federal fish-cultural activities may be listed the cooperative 

 relations existing with other agencies working in the same field. No 

 other Federal agency has the responsibility of operating hatcheries, 

 but nimierous bureaus of the Federal Government administer lands 

 and waters which receive the output of the hatcheries maintained by 

 tliis Bureau. 



