know i'm charlie french executive director of the pennsylvania fish commission who would like you the fishermen of pennsylvania to become better acquainted with the commission and thought you might be interested in seeing and hearing about some of our activities all of which are designed to bring about the best fishing possible in the lakes and streams of our state each year over seven hundred thousand men and women purchase a pennsylvania fishing licen in addition to this number there at least a quarter of a million kitties under sixteen years of age will face and do not require a license i think you will understand it is quite a problem to provide recreation for this vast number of people  like to show you some of the highlights of our program planting in pennsylvania waters is to be produced in growing cotton or fish farms are for the most part held in ponds or rice face clean water must be manner that it will be readily pennsylvania fish commission has developed a satisfactory diet consisting of marine facia and other animal products we have found that are on this diet to give you an idea of the magnitude of our program that requires over two thousand tons of food per year to feed our growing face as much as five times may be fed in a single day at the height of the growing season in keeping with the times the cost of the living for trout has risen considerably during the past few years however by buying food in large quantities and storing at refrigeration plants at the various hatcheries the fish commission has been able to keep the cost of the tire on an economical basis here specially designed trucks transported two and a half million to streams and lakes all over the state sometimes on  to san francisco and about four hundred thousand miles our distance equal to sixteen times around the world actual planting of the fish is a cooperative project of our distribution agency or messengers our fish wardens and a local interested party and it would hardly be practical to for the fish commission to send a crew of men with each truck that's the fine cooperation of the sportsman in helping to distribute these faces and depreciated about of our liberated quite large in limited to the summer months under intelligent management which includes proper plantings these lakes afford good fishing and anglers there by again two and a half additional months of fishing get into these waters for several years the studies are in the form of a biologicals inventory and include an analysis of all factors affecting fish life and fishing the composition of the fish population in  technicians are management unit conduct many other tests and determinations on these waters a chemical or losses of the water various levels must be made a determination of temperatures from surface to bottom may be an index of sometimes in sampling fish populations and over abundance of small paned face or course fish is found in a lake since this usually leads to poor fishing measures are taken to alter the population many a lake and removing the existing fish populations may be necessary in extreme cases after refilling the lake is restocked with a species a fish best adapted to the likes environment that a successful fish population is not determined by numbers of face since higher numbers mean small fish rather it is a suitable ratio of asian bositis including many of catchable size the continuous inventory of our lakes and streams is designed to bring the best possible management to our waters and this in turn means good fishing this is dedication day or d day on virgin and they can fayette county this is a new lake developed by the fish commission with the aid of federal money day and many people bring their fishing tackle and start fishing right away accounts of these ceremonies indicate the interest in these projects i still make in chester county which is only an hour's drive from philadelphia  purchased under this program we are currently making two planes to create another new lake in western pennsylvania which will be only twenty three miles from downtown pittsburgh are like acquisition agents are searching constantly for lake sites located in areas where they will furnish fishing to the greatest number of anger and other public fishing lake recently completed and opened by the commission has newman's lake in cambridge county which you see nation to thousands of anglers over many years the investment seems well worth far as you may know that the general program of the pennsylvania fish commission is a hundred percent self supporting all the work being financed so revenue from fisherman federal aid money may be applied on the just certain projects approved by the fish and wildlife service the men in uniform are representatives of the fish commission force of fifty six  is to safeguard the interests of the fishermen and the commission all of the pennsylvania fish commission is a separate and distinct organization from the pennsylvania game commission there is a good spirit of cooperation between the two this is evidence particularly between the fish wardens and the game protectors who often join forces in their field problems the opportunity to go fishing as an american heritage which we must say are certainly no more natural or wholesome recreation can be found good pennsylvania fish commission is dedicated to improving and expanding fishing of all kinds all over the car well the next time you go fishing take your boy or girl along and even though it may seem a little more trouble it will pay big dividend is that you bring your problems to us as you have in the past and i promise you that we'll do everything possible to cooperate and help you thank you very much