Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1918-03-04
DESPITE WAR MUCH Is BEING
DONE TO PROPAGATE FlNNY
TRIBE.
PLACED IN IOWA
STREAMS, LARGE AND SMALL
Three Governments Stations in State
Make Wide Distribution, Increasing
IL Output Over Previous Years
Report Covers Distribution Of Fin.
serIinss, Ysarinss and Adults.
EBy e. 6. Dougherty.l

Washington, March 4.-Altho the
United States was at war for nine
months OF 1917, the bureau Of fisher
les continued its peace time work CT
stocking American streams with fish
and fish eggs, increasing the distribu-
ton over former years.
In it's annual report just published
the bureau shows that more than o.
100000 fish and eggs were distributed
to streams and fish hatcheries.
OF this number millions went to
Iowa, not to overlook mora than 100.
600 German carp. The fish and eggs
allowances during the year for the
Iowa state commission were $4,000
brook trout, 100000 lake trout, 10000
600 perch.
Giving the details of output Of indi-
vidual stations for the year shows that
Iowa stations furnished the following
lingering, yearling and adult fish for
distribution:
Manchester station-Brook trout,
529,607; 516,a60 rainbow trout and
eggs; 1856 rock bass; 5000 small
mouth black bass.
Bellevue station-Black bass. 1856;
35s; 47,4eo buffalo fish; $4,000 carp;
$4,000 catfish; 194,27S crappie; 1875
drum; $500 pike and pickerel; loo
strawberry bass; 7s3,75O sunfish; 400
Yarmouth bass; $500 white bass; 300
yellow perch.
North .McGregar-Black bass, $4,000;
$1,000 buffalo fish; 1920 carp; $4,000
catfish; 271,S $50 crappie: 10000 pike and
pickerel; 300 rock bass; 4S7,676 sun
fish; 1920 yellow perch.
Distribution in Streams.
The distribution of fish in streams
during the year was as follows:
Catfish-Mississippi at Bellevue,
$4,000; Des Moines at Boone, 900;
Fairfield pond. 1850; Mississippi at
Fairport, 1852; Upper Iowa at Lime
Springs. $3.50: Maquoketa river at
Manchester, 800; Mississippi at North
McGregor, 531, 200. The fish distributed
in the Mississippi was rescued from
overlooked lands during flood periods.
Carp-Mississippi river, at Bellevue,
47,4o0; Fairport. $4,000; Muscatine,
100000; North McGregor $4,000; Port
Lawrence, $4,000; Quarry pond, 1oo,-
900: Sooke Island, 100000; Turkey Is
land, 100000.
Rainbow trout-Coe College, 1000
eggs; Little Point Creek at Harris
Ranch Siding, 1000; Goddard Creek at
Jackson Junction, 1000; head of spring
branch, Manchester. 1,500; Willow
Lake, Monona, 1000; Bloody Run,
North McGregor, 1000; Coulee Creek,
Douseman, $500; Spring Valley Creek,
4 o;rt "ofar-
vile, $500.
BROOK, trout-Baldwin Creek. Cresco,
1000; Rutherford Creek, 1000; state
fish commission, Spirit Lake, $4,000
eggs.
Pike and pickerel-Mississippi at
Bellevue, 5000; at Fairport, 200; at
North, McGregor,, 20,050.
Graphic and strawberry bass-Mis-
sissippi at Bellevue, 1SO,S75; Des
Moines, at Boone, 80: ponds at Corn
ing. 90; Iowa at Eldora, 1870; Mississip-
pi at Fairport 1895; Woodland Lake,
at Guthrie Center, So; Maquoketa at
Manchester 5000; Mississippi, at North
McGregor, $1,000.
Small mouth black bass-Volga riv-
er at Delaware, 5000.
Large mouth black bass-Buffalo at
Anamosa, 800; Mississippi at Bellevue
24,410; Des Moines at Boone, $40; Buf-
falo, at Central City, 400; Clead Lake,
800; Summit Lake, Creston. 200; Bux-
ton pond, Des Moines, 60; Iowa at Ell
dora, 24c; three Fairfield ponds, $3.50;
Knoxville City pond, 60; Mississippi at
Fairport, e,s4s; Upper Iowa at Lime
Springs. 5000; Maquoketa. at Man
chester, 1000: volga river at Maynard,
go; Maquoketa, at Monticello, 800; Big
Cedar at Nashua, 1870; Dayton Park
Lake, Onawa, 100; Radike's pond. Os-
ceola, so; Iowa river, Steamboat Rock
24o; Lake Co-Mar, Story City. 90;
Highland Park Lake, Washington. 1a5;
Railroad pond, West Burlington, 325.
Sunfish in small lots were distributed
in rivers and ponds at Adelphi, Belle
vue, Boone, Carroll, Edgewood, Fair
field, Fairport, Lime Springs, Man
chester, North McGregor, Underwood
and West Burlington.