REPORT OF COMMISSIONER OF FISH AND FISHERIES. 117 



month of April it was necessary to sliovel out a mile of the road to 

 Leadville several times in order to obtain supplies. In the latter month 

 outdoor ojjerations were resumed to a slight extent, and in May the 

 ponds were cleaned and those injured by heaving of ice were repaired. 

 At this season black-spotted and rainbow brood trout were transferred 

 to spawning-ponds. The full stock of eggs and fish on hand at end of 

 fiscal year, June 30, 1893, follows : 



Kinil. 



Kggs. 



Black-spotted trout 1 57, 589 



Tellow-flnned trout j 



Kainbow trout I 5, G6r> 



Brook trout 



Vou Belir trout 



Loch Leven trout 



Total . 



63, 254 



Fry. 



Yearling 

 and two 

 years old. 



1,060 



74, 032 C, 338 



1,450 



22, 368 1, 970 



90, 300 



10, 818 



Brood 



fish. 



977 



28 

 1,414 



2,446 



Baird Station, California (Livingston Stone, Superintendent). 



The production of this station, consisting almost exclusively of 

 quinnat salmon eggs, is largely transferred to tlie commissioners of 

 the State of California. At their hatchery at Sisson the eggs are 

 hatched and fry liberated under direction of those authorities. 



Mr. G. B. Williams resigned the superinteudency and turned over 

 the property of the station July 29. He was succeeded by Mr. Liv- 

 ingston Stone, who had charge of these operations at their installation, 

 he reporting August 10. 



The first salmon yielding eggs was caught August 13, the fish, how- 

 ever, at that time being too scarce to warrant regular hauling of seine. 

 On August 24, regular work being started, 44,000 eggs were taken. 

 The California State law, permitting proprietors of canneries to operate 

 seines until September J , enabled those operators to catch nearly all 

 the summer run of fisli in the lower part of the Sacramento Eiver, 

 and the take of eggs from the summer run amounted to but 834,000. 

 Egg operations lasted only nineteen days, during which time 220 

 spawning fish were handled. All eggs taken, with the exception of 

 about 500,000, were forwarded to the State hatchery at vSisson. 



Egg collections from the fall run of fish commenced October 20, the 

 number obtained being 2,273,000. At this time funds having been 

 exliausted, operations would have ceased but that the California com- 

 missioners came to the rescue and paid expenses during a period of 

 about one week, there being obtained through their elTorts 423,000 

 additional eggs. The whole number of salmon spawned during the 

 fall run amounted to G20, the eggs produced being 2,090,000, and the 

 aggregate for the year being 3,530,000. Work was abruptly stopped 

 November 26 by a violent snow-storm. The eggs taken from the last 

 run were forwarded to Sisson. 



