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UKIAH HATCHERY. 

 The streams of Mendociuo and Sonoma 

 comities )-eceiv('(l their usual portious of 

 steelhead Irout fry from Uldali Hatcli- 

 ery this season, 420,000 fish being planted 

 in the two counties. 



ALMANOR HATCHERY. 

 Egg collecting operations at Almanor 

 Hatchery resulted in a take of less than 

 200,000 rainbow eggs. The resulting fry 

 were distributed in Lake Almanor and 

 near-by streams. 



FEATHER RIVER HATCHERY. 



Operations at the experimental station 

 established near Blairsden on the Western 

 Pacific Railroad were not successful, as 

 the water supply from Grey Eagle Creek 

 did not prove to be satisfactory for fish- 

 cultural operations. Rainbow and black- 

 spotted eggs were shipped to the station 

 to be hatched and reared, but they died 

 in great numbers both before and after 

 hatching. The station has been disman- 

 tled, and the equipment will be used at 

 one of the other stations. 



BEAR LAKE HATCHERY. 

 Fish distribution operations were fin- 

 ished on September 5, and the station 

 closed after completing the most success- 

 ful season since the hatchery was estab- 

 lished. At the egg collecting station on 

 North Creek, 3,500,000 rainbow eggs were 

 taken. After being "'eyed," they were 

 shipped to Mount Shasta, Mount Whit- 

 ney, Tahoe, and Bear Lake Hatchery at 

 Green Spot Springs; 300,000 were also 

 hatched at the North Creek Station, and 

 planted in Big Bear Lake. A total of 

 1,075,000 rainbow trout fry were distrib- 

 uted in streams of San Bernardino 

 County, and in Big Bear Lake, from Bear 

 Lake and North Creek stations. At the 

 present time assistants are engaged in 

 making rep'airs and improvements at the 

 two stations. Negotiations are now under 



way for the purchase of a hue power boat 

 for use in egg collecting operations, trans- 

 ferring materials and supplies, etc., which 

 will greally facilitate the work next 

 spring. 



BROOKDALE HATCHERY. 

 Steelhead trout fry to the number of 

 700,000 were distributed in the streams 

 of Santa Cruz and Santa Clara counties 

 from Brookdale Hatchery this season, in 

 addition to shipments of steelhead eggs 

 made to Blount Shasta and Mount Whit- 

 ney hatcheries for distribution in other 

 seclions of the state. 



WAWONA HATCHERY. 

 The completion of the new hatchery 

 at Wawona enabled us to handle the fish 

 to much better advantage this year. 

 Streams in the vicinity of Wawona re- 

 ceived 75,000 rainbow and 195,000 steel- 

 head trout fry. 



CLEAR CREEK HATCHERY. 

 A small hatchery has just been com- 

 pleted on Clear Creek, Lassen County, 

 near Westwood. Eggs will be shipped to 

 this station from Almanor and Domingo 

 Springs hatcheries next season, and the 

 fry hatched for distribution in the streams 

 in tiie vicinity of Westwood. 



KLAMATH RIVER STATION. 

 The new Klamath River Hatchery, 

 which is being constructed by the Cali- 

 fornia-Oregon Power Company, and which 

 will be turned over to the California Fish 

 and Game Commission when completed, 

 in lieu of the construction of a fish ladder 

 over the Copco Dam, is well under way. 

 As it was not possible to complete this 

 hatchery in time to trap this year's run 

 of Quinnat salmon, a temporary station 

 was established at Klamathon. Ovi^ing to 

 the failure of the main run of salmon to 

 reach the point at which the racks are 

 located, on account of the long dry fall, 

 the take is therefore much below normal. 



COMMERCIAL FISHERY NOTES. 



N. B. ScoKiELD, Editor. 



TIDE CONDITIONS INJURE 

 FISHERIES. 

 The unusual conditions of water tem- 

 perature and currents along the Cali- 

 fornia coast dui-ing the past summer 

 were largely responsible for a greatly 



reduced catch of albacore in southern 

 California and evidently caused the 

 appearance of new and strange fishes as 

 elsewhere noted in this magazine. They 

 also affected the catch of sardines and 

 salmon and seriously handicapped the 



