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tenance work as well as new construction to augment production 

 facilities. New construction during the year has been mainly con- 

 fined to three Works Progress Administration projects involving the 

 erection of new fish cultural stations at Uvalde, Tex., Santa Rosa, 

 N. Mex., and Smokemont, N. C, in the Great Smoky Mountain 

 National Park. Active construction was initiated in November 

 and the New Mexico project completed by the close of the fiscal year. 

 In North Carolina the new hatchery was placed on a producing basis 

 but was not fully completed. In Texas the work progressed favorably 

 but considerable remained to be done at the end of the year. In 

 addition the Bureau supervised the construction of hatchery facilities 

 by certain other agencies, the details of which appear elsewhere in 

 this report. 



Beyond this, local W. P. A. agencies sponsored projects comprising 

 the enlargement and improvement of several of the Bureau's hatcher- 

 ies, including those at Rochester, Ind., Natchitoches, La., Lake Mills, 

 Wis., Hagerman, Idaho, and the Upper Mississippi Wild Life and 

 Fish Refuge. Development work also continued at the York Pond, 

 N. H., brook trout station, labor and materials being secured from 

 the Emergency Conservation organization and the W. P. A. C. C. C. 

 workers also effected minor improvements at the Lamar, Pa., hatchery 

 and small details of enrollees were used at several of the western 

 hatcheries. No major items of improvement were effected from the 

 Bureau's regular operating appropriations since it was necessary to 

 devote these funds to the production of fish. 



There was placed in operation a new hatchery at Harrison Lake, 

 Va., 26 miles southeast of Richmond. The major portion of the 

 construction on this project had been carried on during the previous 

 fiscal 3^ear. 



COOPERATION WITH OTHER CONSERVATION AGENCIES 



An attempt to show graphically the interrelationship of the Federal 

 hatchery system with other agencies concerned with the conservation 

 of fish life would present a most complicated structure. There are 

 multitudes of contacts throughout the country whereby the propagation 

 and distribution of fish can be handled virtually as a joint enterprise 

 between the Federal Government and the States. In some cases 

 these are based upon specifically formulated agreements, as in the 

 instance of the United States Forest Service and the States of New 

 Hampshire and Vermont. In others they are merely an operating 

 procedure resulting from informal understandings worked out in the 

 field. As an instance of the latter, reference can be made to work in 

 the Rocky Mountain and Pacific coast territory, where the collection 

 of eggs from wild trout is supported by several of the States, who 

 participate in a division of the resulting take. Elsewhere the Bureau's 

 hatcheries are being used to rear game fish and the States contribute 

 to the purchase of fish food. 



Another form of valuable coordination lies in the distribution of 

 tlie Federal hatchery output by the State conservation departments, 

 as is done in Indiana, Georgia, Virginia, and a number of other States. 

 Where Federal and State hatcheries are in juxtaposition it has been 

 possible to concentrate the work in one or the other, or so to divide 

 it as to eliminate any possibility of duplication. 



Mention must also be made of the now general practice of submitting 

 Federal fish applications to the State fishery authorities for their 



