. Combined biennial report for the period ending 1942/1946. Pennsylvania Fish Commission; Fisheries; Fish culture. ^ ^-^m. M»^^' 4m- Bear Creek Dam iVo. ;i'^ hut the Pennsylvania Board of Fish Commissioners has assumed att increasing load of stream stocking hy furnishing legal size fish dur^ in<r recent years. This has heen especially true during the war years and the forest now looks to the State for this assistance in the mainte- nance of good trout fishing. Streams on the forest are open to public fishing under the same State regulations which apply outside. Immediately prior to the war,
. Combined biennial report for the period ending 1942/1946. Pennsylvania Fish Commission; Fisheries; Fish culture. ^ ^-^m. M»^^' 4m- Bear Creek Dam iVo. ;i'^ hut the Pennsylvania Board of Fish Commissioners has assumed att increasing load of stream stocking hy furnishing legal size fish dur^ in<r recent years. This has heen especially true during the war years and the forest now looks to the State for this assistance in the mainte- nance of good trout fishing. Streams on the forest are open to public fishing under the same State regulations which apply outside. Immediately prior to the war, a small trout rearing station was huih bv the Forest Service on the of Farnsworth Creek in Warren County, in order to permit rearing fingerling fish to catch- able size. This rearing station was constructed under plans and recom- mendations made by the United States Fish «nd Wildlife Service and the station was operated by the United States Fish and Wildhfe Service for a short time before the outbreak of the war. Shortages of fish food and personnel made it necessary to close this station dur- incr the war vears, but it is to be reopened in August, 1946, for year- Ion- operation. This plant is expected to augment the annual supply of legal size fish available for release in streams of the National Forest By pooling the restocking efforts of the State of Pennsylvania, the United States Fish and Wildlife Service and the Allegheny National Forest, it is hoped to develop sport fishing on the forest to a high level. 96 Prior to the war, a 57-acre lake was developed on the Allegheny Forest in the vicinity of Marienville utilizing labor from emergency conservation camps. This body of water and the surrounding land area are managed under cooperative agreements with the Pennsyl- vania Board of Fish Commissioners and the Pennsylvania Game Commission. The area has served as a water fowl and small game refuge for a number of years, and the State fish hatchery at Tionesta rem
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