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  REPORT 
  OF 
  COMMISSIONER 
  OF 
  FISH 
  AND 
  FISHERIES. 
  

  

  On 
  the 
  nortlierii 
  part 
  of 
  the 
  coast 
  the 
  first 
  fry 
  were 
  introduced 
  in 
  

   1885, 
  the 
  number 
  being 
  60,000. 
  Of 
  these, 
  50,000 
  were 
  put 
  in 
  the 
  Willa- 
  

   mette 
  Eiver 
  and 
  10,000 
  in 
  the 
  Snake 
  River. 
  In 
  the 
  following 
  year 
  

   850,000 
  were 
  introduced 
  into 
  the 
  Columbia 
  River, 
  making 
  a 
  total 
  of 
  

   910,000. 
  

  

  The 
  increase 
  has 
  been 
  uninterrupted 
  and 
  rapid 
  in 
  California 
  waters, 
  

   and 
  the 
  shad 
  is 
  now 
  one 
  of 
  the 
  most 
  abundant 
  fishes 
  of 
  that 
  State. 
  

   As 
  a 
  result 
  of 
  the 
  liberation 
  of 
  the 
  first 
  two 
  consignments, 
  consisting 
  

   of 
  45,000 
  fry, 
  several 
  thousand 
  mature 
  shad 
  were 
  caught 
  in 
  1879, 
  and 
  

   sold 
  in 
  the 
  San 
  Francisco 
  market. 
  In 
  1880 
  specimens 
  of 
  all 
  sizes 
  were 
  

   taken 
  in 
  the 
  Sacramento 
  River 
  and 
  Monterey 
  Bay, 
  and 
  it 
  was 
  evident 
  

   that 
  the 
  shad 
  had 
  begun 
  to 
  multiply. 
  Up 
  to 
  1883 
  the 
  increase 
  was 
  

   marvelous. 
  Prohibitory 
  law 
  did 
  not 
  prevent 
  their 
  incidental 
  capture 
  

   in 
  salmon 
  nets, 
  their 
  abundance 
  being 
  thus 
  indicated. 
  

  

  The 
  shad 
  is 
  most 
  numerous 
  on 
  the 
  west 
  coast 
  in 
  San 
  Francisco 
  Bay 
  

   and 
  its 
  tributaries. 
  It 
  is 
  not 
  common 
  above 
  Sacramento, 
  owing 
  to 
  the 
  

   low 
  water-tempera'ture. 
  In 
  the 
  Columbia 
  it 
  is 
  regularly 
  found 
  as 
  far 
  as 
  

   the 
  Cascades, 
  about 
  150 
  miles 
  above 
  the 
  mouth 
  of 
  the 
  river. 
  Contrary 
  

   to 
  their 
  habit 
  in 
  eastern 
  rivers, 
  shad 
  are 
  found 
  in 
  the 
  rivers 
  tributary 
  

   to 
  San 
  Francisco 
  Bay 
  and 
  the 
  coastal 
  waters 
  of 
  that 
  vicinity 
  throughout 
  

   the 
  year. 
  

  

  