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purpose was allowed by Congress, and the allotment ordinarily made 
for the regular operations of the station had to be devoted to upkeep 
of the plant. 
There was again a large run of sockeye salmon into Litnik Lake, 
on which the Afognak station is located, and while the ege collec- 
tions were not equal to the previous year’s, when the hatchery was 
filled and additional eggs were taken for incubation in gravel boxes, 
the shortage was caused by the occurrence of floods during the spawn- 
ing period rather than to any diminution in the run of fish. 
As evidence of the trend and progress of salmon culture on the 
Pacifie coast, it may be noted that of the 124,484,000 salmon planted 
by the Bureau in the last fiscal vear 92,066,000, or over 71 per cent, 
were of the fingerling size. 
CULTIVATION OF FISHES OF INTERIOR LAKES AND STREAMS, 
The diversified and widespread fish-cultural work addressed to the 
food and game fishes of the streams and minor lakes of the interior 
has been conducted along the usual lines. The principal species in- 
volved are various trouts, landlocked salmon, black basses, crappies, 
sunfishes, and buffalofish. One of the fishes in this class most in 
demand and most desirable for planting over a wide range of coun- 
try is the eastern brook trout. The production at all the trout. 
stations is not sufficient to meet the demand, and recourse has been 
had to private hatcheries for supplies of eggs. The high prices now 
asked for such eggs, however, have necessitated a curtailment of pur- 
chases, and the shortage has been augmented by a poor take of eggs 
in Colorado, usually one of the most productive fields. The situation 
emphasizes the desirability of developing as rapidly as possible the 
proposed brook-trout station in the White Mountain National Forest 
at a site that has been made available to the Bureau through the 
courtesy of the Forest Service and the State of New Hampshire. A 
large part of the preliminary work connected with this project has 
been completed, surveys have been made, a road constructed, tele- 
phone line installed, a portion of the pond extension site cleared, and 
a temporary dam constructed. The officers of the Forest Service 
have rendered valuable assistance in the accomplishment of this 
work, but the station can not be fully developed and put in opera- 
tion until additional funds are provided. The special appropria- 
tion requested for the purpose seems very small when compared with 
the results that may reasonably be expected from such an under- 
taking. 
Successful results attended the fish-cultural activities of the sta- 
tions in the Rocky Mountain region, with the single exception of the 
Colorado field, where the work was adversely affected by the in- 
clement weather and the serious difficulty in transporting the eggs 
from the isolated field stations. Good collections of rainbow trout 
eggs were made in Madison Valley, Mont., notwithstanding the 
continuous cold and stormy weather prevailing throughout the 
spawning season. Aside from other valuable assistance rendered 
by the Montana Game and Fish Commission, the Bureau is indebted 
to it for its entire output of grayling. The work in the Yellowstone 
National Park was of a satisfactory nature, and upward of 2,000,000 
