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CAMKOKMA FISH AM) GAME. 



Ill' iiur iipt rations was necessarily limited, 

 liut wc tVel that the results obtained have 

 justified all the hard work and exi]'euse. 

 Although several efforts have been made 

 in past years to collect the eggs of the 

 golden trout, this is the first attempt that 

 has been successful. The success of the 

 operations this season is due to the skill 

 and resourcefulness of Mr. George Mc- 

 Cloud, Jr., who was in personal charge 

 of the golden trout egg collecting opera- 

 lions at Cottonwood Lakes and of the 

 Mount Whitney Hatchery, at which sta- 

 tion the eggs were hatched and the fry 

 reared. The golden trout are very diffi- 

 cult to rear, but the results obtained in 

 this delicate work far exceeded our expec- 

 tations. 



Plants of golden trout were made in the 

 Santa Ana River, San Bernardino County, 

 and in Mammoth Creek and Convict Lake, 

 Mono County. A shipment of golden 

 trout w-as planted in Lake Tahoe, and a 

 consignment sent to Mount Shasta Hatch- 

 ery to be liberated in the McCloud River 

 at a later date. Practically all of the 

 waters of southern California and the 

 lower San Joaquin Valley counties were 

 stocked with fish from the Mount Whit- 

 ney Hatchery this season. 



Fish Distribution Car No. 01 was de- 

 tached from distribution operations at 

 Mount Shasta Hatchery the forepart of 

 September and sent to southern California 

 to undertake the shipping of fish from the 

 Mount Whitney Hatchery. The work 

 was completed in a little over a month. 

 After the completion of the season's fish- 

 cultural operations the crew was assigned 

 to make the improvements on the Mount 

 Whitney Hatchery grounds, and this work 

 is now progressing nicely. 



MT. TALLAC HATCHERY. 

 The Mount TuUac Hatchery was oper- 

 ated as in past seasons, black-spotted 

 trout eggs being taken from the fish 

 ascending Taylor Creek to spawn. In 

 addition to the 1,200,000 eggs of this 

 species hatched at the station for distribu- 

 tion in the tributary streams of Lake 

 Tahoe in the vicinity of Mount Tallac, 

 shipments of eggs were made to Tahoe 

 Hatchery, Mount Shasta Hatchery and 

 the Feather River Experimental Station ; 

 1. '.0.000 rainbow^ and 8SO,000 steelhead 



Irniit try were also (list rihuli'd in lln' 

 tributary streams of Lakt- Tahoe from 

 Mount Tallac Hatchery this season. Tin; 

 stiM'lhcad trout should thrive Avell in the 

 waters of Lake Tahoe, and the addition 

 of this valuable species of trout to the 

 other varieties in the lake will be greatly 

 appreciated by the anglers of the state 

 who eujoy the fishing in this region. 



TAHOE HATCHERY. 

 From Tahoe Hatchery were distributed 

 1.">,(I(W> rainl)ow and 420,000 black-spotted 

 trout fry in the streams and lakes in the 

 Taiioe liasin and in the vicinity of 

 I'ruckce. 



FORT SEWARD HATCHERY. 



The streams of Humboldt and Trinity 

 counties' \Tere stocked with rainbow and 

 steelhead trout fry to the number of 

 200,000 and 1,000,000 respectively from 

 Fort Seward Hatchery this season. Mad 

 River, tributaries of Humboldt Bay, and 

 Eel River and tributaries, received most 

 of the fish. 



Quinuat salmon eggs received from 

 egg collecting operations on Eel River 

 near Bryan's Rest last fall were hatched 

 at Fort Seward Hatchery, together with 

 shipments of eggs of the same species 

 from Mount Shasta Hatchery, and the 

 resulting fry to the number of 1,000,000 

 were planted in Mad River, tributaries 

 of Humboldt Bay and Eel River. As egg 

 collecting operations near Bryan's Rest 

 were not satisfactory, a new experimental 

 station was established this fall on Bull 

 Creek, a tributary of Eel River, near 

 Dyerville. Owing to the fact that there 

 was not enough rainfall to raise the river 

 sufficiently to enable the spawning fish 

 to ascend the stream, no Quinnat salmon 

 eggs were taken early in the season, but 

 later rains during the month of November 

 improved conditions. 



DOMINGO SPRINGS STATION. 

 Tlie season's operations at Domingo 

 Spiings Hatchery were very successful. 

 In addition to the rainbow trout eggs 

 sent to other hatcheries, 317,000 were 

 hatched and the fry planted in lakes and 

 streams in Lassen and Placer counties. 

 A shipment of 100,000 steelhead eggs was 

 sent to Domingo Springs, and the result- 

 ing fry planted in lakes in that vicinity. 



