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BEAR LAKE HATCHERY. I 



On March 4 a crew of men left for 

 San Bernardino en route to the Bear Lake | 

 Hatchery. Every effort will be made to 

 collect a large number of rainbow trout 

 eggs at the North Creek spawning station. 

 During the past summer and fall exten- 

 sive repairs and improvements were made 

 at the North Creek station and with the 

 new thirty-trough hatchery at that point 

 we will be able to handle a much larger 

 number of eggs than in former seasons. 



TAHOE HATCHERIES. 

 Arrangements have been made to open 

 the Tallac Hatchery on March IS or 19 

 and plans have been made to take the 

 usual number of eggs from the black- 

 spotted trout of Lake Tahoe. 



WAWONA HATCHERY. 

 A lease has been obtained from the 

 Wawona Hotel Company, and contract 

 has been let for the construction of a 

 small, modern hatchery. Unless this 

 work is delayed by a heavy fall of snow, 

 the hatchery will be ready for operation 

 during the fore part of April, and 

 250,000 trout eggs will be shipped to that 

 station, and the resulting fry distributed 

 in the streams of Mariposa and ^ladera 

 counties. 



ALMANOR AND DOMINGO SPRINGS 

 HATCHERIES. 



Arrangements have been made to send 

 a crew of men into Plumas County to 

 open up the Almanor and Domingo 

 Springs hatcheries on March 11. All re- 

 pair and improvement work was com- 

 pleted at these stations last fall, after 

 the completion of the fish distribution 

 operations, and everything is therefore in 

 readiness for this season's operations. 



FORT SEWARD HATCHERY. 



In addition to 300,000 quinnat salmon 

 eggs taken at the Bryaus Rest Station 

 on Eel River, Humboldt County, approxi- 

 mately 90,000 quinnat salmon were 

 shipped to the Fort Seward Hatchery 

 from the Mount Shasta Hatchery. The 

 fry resulting from these eggs are doing 

 nicely and will soon be ready for distri- 

 bution. As the fry reach the proper 



stage, they will be distributed in the 

 Eel River and tributaries and other 

 streams in Humboldt County. 



Fig. S3. Quinnat salmon taken at Bryan's 

 Rest Egg Collecting Station on Eel River, 

 Humboldt County. Photograph by S. 

 Campbell. 



SNOW MOUNTAIN STATION. 

 The Snow Mountain station was 

 opened during the fore part of January. 

 Owing to extreme drought, the spawning 

 steelhead have not ascended Eel River as 

 far as Cape Horn dam, at which point 

 our egg collecting station is located, in any 

 considerable numbers, and therefore the 

 collection of eggs has been very much 

 delayed. However, should there be suf- 

 ficient rainfall during the coming month, 

 we will undoubtedly be able to obtain an 

 ample supply of steelhead trout eggs at 

 this station. 



BROOKDALE AND SCOTT CREEK 

 STATIONS. 



The same climatic conditions have ob- 

 tained in Santa Cruz County as at the 

 Snow Mountain station, and the collec- 

 tion of steelhead trout eggs at the Scott 

 Creek station has been very small. Only 

 a little over 300,000 eggs have been col- 

 lected to date. However, our assistants 

 report that there are large numbers of 

 spawning trout at the mouth of Scott 



