PROPAGATION AND DISTRIBUTION OF FOOD FISHES, 

 FISCAL YEAR 1924^ 



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



CONTENTS 



Page 



Introduction 363 



Fresh-water fishes 363 



Marine and anadromous fishes. 364 



Cooperation with States, other Federal agencies, and foreign governments. 365 



Fish conservation 365 



Part 1.— FISH PRODUCTION: PROPAGATION AND RESCUE WORK 



Tabular summaries of operations 36& 



Species of fishes handled 366 



Output 367 



Assignments of fish eggs to State and Territoral fish commissions 368 



Shipments of fish eggs to foreign countries 369 



Egg collections 369 



Fish-rescue work 369 



Stations and substations and output of each 371 



Transfers of eggs between stations 3T6 



Egg collecting at auxiliary stations 377 



Fish food used at hatcheries 377 



Hatchery fish-cultural notes 379 



Effect of changed conditions on fish-cultural work in the Washington 



field 379 



Extension of the run of sockeye salmon 380 



Effect of turbid water on salmon eggs 380 



Results attained in the stocking of Idaho waters 381 



Growth of rainbow trout in Montana waters 381 



Mortality of fish in Lake Erie 381 



Report of fish food used at the Wytheville (Va.) station during June, 



1924 SS^ 



Commercial fishes 382 



Pacific salmons 382 



Afognak (Alaska) station 382 



Yes Bay (Alaska) station 383 



Baker Lake (Wash.) station and substations 385 



Baker Lake (Wash.) station 385 



Birdsview (Wash.) substation 386 



Brinnon (Wash.) substation 387 



Duckabush (Wash.) substation 387 



Quilcene (Wash.) substation 388 



Sultan (Wash.) substation 388 



Quinault (Wash.) station 389 



Clackamas (Oreg.) station and substations 391 



Clackamas (Oreg.) station 391 



Upper Clackamas (Oreg.) substation 392 



Little White Salmon (Wash.) substation 392 



Big White Salmon (Wash.) substation 392 



Rogue River (Oreg.) substation 392 



'Appendix V to Report of the U. S. Commissioner of Fisheries for 1924. B, F. Doc. No. 978 



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