. Annual report - Florida Game and Fresh Water Fish Commission. Wildlife management; Fishery management. 36 BIENNIAL REPORT will be resumed when the war is over. Quail hatched at the Game Farm were liberated in pairs in closed areas over the State where they were left to propagate naturally for a period of time before being trapped for liberation in open territory. FISH HATCHERIES The Commission is operating three fish hatcheries, one at Eagle Lake near Winter Haven, Florida, one at Holt, Florida, and one at Wewahitchka, Florida. One Federal Hatchery, located at Welaka, Florida, is also in ope
. Annual report - Florida Game and Fresh Water Fish Commission. Wildlife management; Fishery management. 36 BIENNIAL REPORT will be resumed when the war is over. Quail hatched at the Game Farm were liberated in pairs in closed areas over the State where they were left to propagate naturally for a period of time before being trapped for liberation in open territory. FISH HATCHERIES The Commission is operating three fish hatcheries, one at Eagle Lake near Winter Haven, Florida, one at Holt, Florida, and one at Wewahitchka, Florida. One Federal Hatchery, located at Welaka, Florida, is also in operation. From the hatcheries at Eagle Lake, Holt and Welaka a total of 7,120,081 fingerling fish have found their way into Florida fresh waters. Fish from the Wewahitchka Hatchery are turned into the Dead Lakes in Gulf and Calhoun Counties. The following tabulation will show a breakdown of fish distributions from the three hatcheries: 1942-43 1943-44 Bass Bream Bass Bream Winter Haven 308,000 326,500 Holt 2,236,000 3,929,000 Welaka 214,631 58,435 47,605 One of the Fish Ponds at Wewahitchka Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Florida. Game and Fresh Water Fish Commission. [Tallahassee] Florida Game and Fresh Water Fish Commission
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