1956/19561213.pdf (148.94 kb)
Sater or Flanagan -Int. 2879 UNITED STATES FISH-AND WILDLIFE SERVICE FOR FOOD EDITORS For Release DECEMBER 13, 1956 FISH AND SHELLFISH MAKE TEMPTING HORS D'OEUVRES AND CANAPES With the holiday season just around the corner, the resourceful hostess is gathering ideas for tempting surprises for her gu

1956/19561216.pdf (188.31 kb)
SECRETARY For Release DECE? QER 16, 1956 SECriETARY SEATON ANNOUW! S EXPANDED CONS33VATION PR3GRAM Secretary of the Interior Fred A. Seaton announced today that he has asked the recently reorganized United States Fish and Wildlife Service to develop a blueprint for a greatly broadened conservation p

1956/19561217.pdf (121.31 kb)
Flanagan or Sater -Int, 2879 UNITED STATES FISH AND WILDLIFE SERVICE For Release DECEMBER 17, 1956 EMERGENCY WELL REVITALIZES AREA IN TIME FCR FALL WATEFPOWL FLIGHT An emergency well, drilled just as the migratory waterfowl were starting south, is providing urgently needed water for flocks of as man

1956/19561218.pdf (87.70 kb)
AND WILDLIFE SERVICE For Release to Y. M. 's DECEMBER 18, 1956 HUNTERS HARVEST NEARLY 19 MILLION IdOURKtNG DOVES Hunters of 29 States harvested nearly 19 million mourning doves during the open season in 1955, Secretary of the Interior 'Fred A. Seaton said tcda: r. This information was recently compi

1956/19561228.pdf (90.08 kb)
Flanagan or Sater -Int. 2879 UNITED STATES FISH AND 'ZILDLIFE SEHVICE For Release DECEMBER 28, 1956 SECRETARY SEATON ANNOUNCES FIRST FISHEHY FUND LOANS Secretary of the Interior Fred A. Seaton announced today that the first five loans to be granted from the new fisheries loan fund have been approved

1956/19560416.pdf (133.15 kb)
Flmtig~ n or Sater -Int. 2879 FISH AND WILDLIFE SERVICE For Release to FM's APRIL 16, 1956 FRESH FISH SUPPLIES AVAILABLE WITH SECCND QUARTER ACTIVITIES The fresh fish season is on and for the next six months consumers will have greater freedom of choice between fresh, frozen, and canned fish in mark

1956/19560417.pdf (78.09 kb)
Sater or Flanagan -I& 287? FISRANDWILDLIFESERVICE For Release APRIL 17, 1956 PRICES DFZLINE SLIGHTLY AT GOVFEUWZNT FUR-SIUL AUCTION A slight decline in prices from last fall-3,2 percent-but an increase in total revenue because of a greater volume characterized the semiannual auction of Government-ow

1956/19560419a.pdf (163.44 kb)
FISH AN? WILDLIFE SERVWE For Release APRIL 19, 1956 FWS PLANS ZXTENSIVE NESTLING DOVE BANDING PROGRAM The mourning dove-game bird in some States and song bird in others-is ech8duled for what might be the most intensive hunt in its career, but this hunt will be without guns, and with leg bands being

1956/19560419b.pdf (126.78 kb)
A anagan or Sater -Int, 2879 FISH AND KtLDLIFE SERVICE For Release To PM's, APRIL IF YOU OR INFORMATION S, ERVICE 19, 1956 SEE A WHOOPING CRANE NOTIFY STATE FEDERAL CONSERVATION OFFICERS The northward flight of the whooping crane has started and the fate of the species is again in the balance. Inter

1956/19560420.pdf (87.02 kb)
Flanagan or Sater -Int. 2879 FISH AND WILDLIFE SERVICE For Release To PM! s, APRIL 20, 1956 INTERVIEWING PI-USE OF ECONOMIC SURVEY COMPLETED Field work on a survey which will give America its first authentic informa-tion of national scope on the economic aspects of hunting and sport fishing has been

1956/19560425a.pdf (156.14 kb)
Sater or Flanagan -Int. 28'79 FISB AND WILDLIFE SERVICE For Release APRIL 25, 19% FIRST PROPOSED UNITED STATES VOLUNTARY STANDARD FOR FISHE; RY PRCDUCTS TROUNCED As the result of cooperative efforts by the fishing industm the Department of the Interiol; and the Department of Agriculture, quality sta

1956/19560425b.pdf (153.97 kb)
FISB AND WILDLIFE SERVICE For Release APRIL 25, 1956 FWtS BAGS RECORD NllM3ER OF MARKET HURTERS With the biggest bag of market hunters in the history of the Fish and Wildlife 'Service enforcement program either now in custody or out on bond, Service officials are "catching up the loose ends" of the

1956/19560425c.pdf (160.48 kb)
Int. 2879 .TION SERVICE I FISH AND WILDLTFE SERVICE For Release APRIL 25, 19% FWS PRZPARES FOR MOURNING DOW3 CAJ. COUNT The 1956 "call count" for mourning doves will be made betmen May 20 and June 10 in 44 States, the Fish and Wildlife Service said today. The data so obtained will be used in fixing

1956/19560427.pdf (97.33 kb)
Q-n or Sater -Int. 2879 FISH AND WILDLIFE SEKVICE For Release APRIL 27, 1.956 WATER. FCWL SURVEYS WILL $ERYICE BEGIN MAY1 &re than 400 American and Canadian Wildlife specialists will participate in the annual waterfowl breeding ground survey which will begin My 1, and in the duck banding program whi

1956/19560429.pdf (182.85 kb)
FISH AND WILDLIFE SERVICE For Release APRIL 29, 1956 NATIONAL WILDLIFE REFUGES HOST TO NEARLY SEVEN MILLION VISITORS Vhe sign of the flying goose%the emblem of the National Wildlife Refuges-attracted a record-breaking total of 6,974, 7 recreation-seeking visitors in 1955, Aoting Secretary of the Int

1956/19560430.pdf (65.77 kb)
Jlanagan or Sater -Int. 2879 ~ P~ woMMNU INFORMATION SERVICE FISH AND WILDLIFE SERVICE For Release to PM's, APRIL 30, 1956 SURVEY INDICATES GREBTER PROFIT IN FISH SERVINGS Serving for serving, there is as much profit for the restaurateur in fish and shellfish as there is in steak, roast beef, roast

1956/19560502.pdf (90.21 kb)
lBlmrn[ SM INFORMATION SERVICE FISH AND WILDLIFE SERVICE For Release MAY 2, 1956 INTERIOR MAKES LAND AVAILABLE FOR GAMK FfBSTORATION PROGRAM An order withdrawing 560 acres of land in the State of Washington to help the Washington State Game Department round out its Sherman Creek Game Range project h

1956/19560503.pdf (136.80 kb)
FISH AND WILDLIFE SERVICE For Release to FM's, MAY 3, 1956 NEW TRUMPETER SWAN NESTING AREA DISCOVERE33 IN ALASKA The discovery of a new nesting area for the trumpeter swan-this one in the lower Copper River Basin in Alaska-has been reported by a Fish and Wildlife scientist. the Hitherto, there were

1956/19560504.pdf (127.88 kb)
Sater or Flanagan -Int. 2879 lggwmElGm w UCIB Dwmllow INFORMATIQN SERVICE FISH AND WILDLIFE SERVICE For Release MBY 4, 1956 McNARYWILDLIFE REFUGE FORIYALLY ESTABLISHED An area of 2,849. U acres in Franklin and Walla Walla counties in Washington, near Pasco, officially has become a part of the nation

1956/19560507a.pdf (133.08 kb)
FISH AND WILDLIFE SERVICE For Release MY 7, 1956 STUDY CLEARS CHUB FISHERY OF BLAME! IN DECLINE OF LAKE MICHIGAN TROUT The decline of Lake Michigan’ s trout fishery, which plunged from an annual catch of ~ OO, OOO pounds in 1946 to a mere 34 pounds in 1955 is due to the sea lamprey rather than to de