Applying Chemicals to Control Vegetation in Fish Ponds at Tishomingo National Fish Hatchery in 1949

Man on left, standing nearly waist deep in a large pool of water; he's holding an apparatus that features a long metal shaft connected to a flexible hose; he is using said apparatus to spray a chemical into the water (right). The man is wearing a pair of wadding pants/trunks, as well as a broadbrimmed hat.
Photo By/Credit

E.P. Haddon

Date Shot/Created
05/01/1949
Media Usage Rights/License
Public Domain
Image
Original caption: Apparatus being used by J.C. Standifer using sodium arsenite in fish ponds for control of aquatic vegetation. Tishomingo National Fish Hatchery, Oklahoma, May 1949.
Facility
Tishomingo National Fish Hatchery
Subject tags
Chemicals
Equipment
Fish hatcheries
Fisheries
Fisheries management
Fishes
History