Photo Gallery

Specially designed railroad cars were used to transport fish eggs and fry across the continent in stocking programs conducted by the Bureau of Fisheries. The Bureau began in 1903 in the Department of Commerce & Labor, and in 1939 was transferred into the Department of Interior. Credit: NOAA NORTHEAST FISHERIES SCIENCE CENTER

Milk cans were strapped to horses for planting fish. Credit: DC BOOTH NATIONAL FISH HATCHERY

Children at sardine cannery cutting off the heads and tails of herring, and cleaning herring for canning. From a photograph by T. W. Smillie. Credit: NOAA NATIONAL MARINE FISHERIES SERVICE

Men in wooden boat after fishing for cod,1897. Credit: UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON

Ken Carlander and graduate students, Fred Meyer, Jim McCann, and Jim Schmolbach (1958). Credit: KEN CARLANDER

George Embody (upper right) and crew removing trout from the Cornell Experimental Hatchery near the water supply, 1938. Credit: HOWARD SCHUCK.

International Commission for Northwest Atlantic Fisheries plenary session--U.S. Department of State, Washington, D.C. April 2, 1951. Credit: HOWARD SCHUCK

South side of T Wharf, the wholesale fresh fish center in Boston, circa 1898. Credit: 2000 AFS CALENDAR

Mackerel packing on shipboard. Splitting, cleaning, and washing. Credit: NOAA NATIONAL MARINE FISHERIES SERVICE

Collecting trip to Martha’s Vineyard, Massachusetts, conducted by H.M. Smith, 1923. (left to right) Chilchester, Galtsoff, Smith, unidentified, Bigelow. Credit: NOAA NORTHEAST FISHERIES SCIENCE CENTER.

Emmeline Moore became the first female president of the American Fisheries Society in 1927, shown here at her desk, 1963. Credit: NEW YORK STATE DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL CONSERVATION, THE CONSERVATIONIST.

The sponge auction wharf at Key West, Florida,1900. Credit: NOAA FISHERIES COLLECTION

George Embody (upper right) and crew removing trout from the Cornell Experimental Hatchery near the water supply, 1938. Credit: HOWARD SCHUCK

1936 Annual Meeting of the American Fisheries Society in Grand Rapids, Michigan. Credit: Great Lakes Science Center.

Fulton Fish Market in New York City was the site of the first meeting of the American Fish Culturists Association in 1870. Credit: University of Washington.

Vessel USS Albatross at the Washington Navy Yard. Credit: NOAA NORTHEAST FISHERIES SCIENCE CENTER.

Spencer F. Baird, circa 1867. Credit: NOAA NORTHEAST FISHERIES SCIENCE CENTER

End view of the movable station, on scow beached at Canso, 1901–1902. Group of board members and research associates includes (L to R) G.A. Cornish, unknown, A.P. Knight, J. Stafford (curator 1901–1907), J. Fowler, C.M. Fraser, E.E. Prince, R.R. Wright, unknown, A.B. Macallum. Credit: THE AQUATIC EXPLORERS

Comstock Hall, home of the Laboratory of Limnology and Fisheries at Cornell University, built in 1914. Photo taken in 1943. Credit: HOWARD SCHUCK

O. Lloyd Meehean, USFWS, Washington; W.J.K. Harkness, Toronto (AFS President 1951-1952); John Van Oosten, USFWS, Ann Arbor (AFS President 1941-1946) at the 1950 Annual Meeting in Memphis. Credit: Great Lakes Science Center.

AFS Past Presidents Seth Gordon (1948-1949) and Al Hazzard (1950-1951) at the 1950 Annual Meeting in Memphis. Credit: Great Lakes Science Center.

Stillman Wright, USFWS, Washington, DC (L); Shelby Gerking, Indiana (AFS President 1986-1987); George Bennett, Illinois; Bruno von Limbach, USFWS, Washington, DC at the 1950 Annual Meeting in Memphis. Credit: Great Lakes Science Center.

H.S. Swingle (AFS President 1957-1958) at the 1950 Annual Meeting in Memphis. Credit: Great Lakes Science Center.

Dr. Snieszko at T.V.A. luncheon at the 1950 Annual Meeting in Memphis. Credit: Great Lakes Science Center.

John O'Donnel (L), Wisconsin, & John Van Oosten (AFS President 1941-1946) enjoy launch ride on Pickwick Reservoir during the 1950 Annual Meeting in Memphis. Credit: Great Lakes Science Center.

Dave Leahy of Kansas visits TVA dam at the 1950 Annual Meeting in Memphis. Credit: Great Lakes Science Center.

New York State’s Experimental Trout Stream, Crystal Creek, Adirondacks, New York. Field personnel (left to right) S. Lee Crump, Robert Zilliox, Howard Schuck, Arch Petty, Donald Pasko. Courtesy of Howard Schuck.

Frederick Mather in the frontispiece from his book Men I have Fished With (Mather 1897). Credit: Wikipedia.

J Frances Allen studying Striped Bass.

U.S. Fish Commission Steamer Albatross (National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration).