Stocking Fish 1939

State Uses New Type Truck to Transpory Fish

R. Underwood, of Indianapolis and an employee of the Conservation Department, takes out a can of minnows

The new truck with one of the sides open showing position of containers and spouts of running water

Game Warden Herbert SLaon wearing hip boots dumps the small fish in their new home, Lake Maxinkuckee

Stocking Indiana's lakes and rivers with fish has become big business, even to the point of using a specially built truck to transport the fish from the hatcheries in the variou bodies of water.

The above truck recently brought baby fish to Lake Maxinkuckee the first time one of these new models had been seen in this part of the state. In fact it was the first time the truck had ever been used for this purpose.

The truck holds 24 cans which have a total capacity of 50,000 minnows or fingerlings. Spouts can be seen in the picture bringing circulating water to each can. This water is kept at a constant tempature with the result that the fish can be kept in the cans for several days at a time without a heavy mortality.

So that the water from the spout won't damage the small fish a mesh covers each can, this breaking the force without reducing the introduction of fresh water.

The water pum[ and cooling system are in the rear od the truck and are kept in operation as long as fish are in the cans, even on long hauls when an overnight stop is made.

This new truck has reduced the loss of life in transporting the young fish to a negligible figure and makes it possible to take fish saley to any point in the state.