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exhibition of a city taking an active part in helping along the 
fishery interests of a commonwealth. This may be regarded as one 
of the great pieces of work accomplished by the Department of 
Fisheries in its first year’s work. There are indications that 
some other cities in Pennsylvania will take a similar substantial 
interest. 
The department is also an advocate of the establishment of a 
large aquarium for the display, chiefly, of Pennsylvania fishes, 
and it has again succeeded in interesting the City of Philadel- 
phia in the project. A movement is now on foot for the munici- 
pal authorities to appropriate a sum of money for building an 
aquarium either in Fairmount Park or on the Torresdale hatch- 
ery site with the exhibit of the department at the St. Louis expo- 
sition as a nucleus. 
The Bellefonte hatchery was located early in July and with- 
in four months buildings were erected, ponds were constructed, 
the hatchery in operation, and more than two million and a half 
of trout turned out before the close of the season. There are 
twenty-three acres of land in this hatchery. All but three acres 
of which will be devoted to brook trout work. It is estimated 
that there is available there eight thousand gallons of spring 
water per minute, more than twelve hundred of which flow di- 
rectly out of a spring into the hatching house, and the remainder 
from a stream which has its origin in two or three springs less 
than twelve hundred yards away and with a temperature on the 
hottest day in summer of fifty degrees. 
The second hatchery authorized by the legislature was located 
in Wayne County at a place called Pleasant Mount on the head- 
waters of the Lackawaxen river. An early winter prevented any 
work being done until the spring. It is designed to have this 
hatchery chiefly for the culture of smallmouth black bass, yellow- 
perch, pickerel and for experimental work in rearing Atlantic 
salmon to maturity for breeding purposes, following the experi- 
ments in this particular of the United States Bureau of Fish- 
eries. There is a small hatching house for brook trout, with 
only fifteen troughs, but with three tiers of nursery ponds of a 
design contrived by the superintendent of the station, Mr. 
Nathan R. Buller. By this contrivance it is expected that over 
a million trout can be turned out from Wayne County, annu- 
