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FISH AND GAME COMMISSION. 



MOUNT TALLAC HATCHERY. 



This liatfliLTy has been operated during the past two seasons, with 

 the usual results. The seining operations at the mouth of Taylor Creek 

 Avere discontinued owing to the run of fish being broken up and scat- 

 tered by the low v.'ater in the creek during the last four years of 

 drought, lasting up to the winter of 1921-1922, when a normal snow 

 and rainfall prevailed throughout the Tahoe basin. We operated traps 

 in the surrounding creeks to collect our supply of eggs for this station 

 as well as sliipping eggs from other stations. AVith the return of normal 

 weather conditions, the rim of trout in Taylor Creek will soon be as 

 good as in former years. We have made our usual plants of trout fry 

 in Taylor Creek and no doubt when the seasonal storms are normal and 

 the creek discharges its usual amount of water into Lake Tahoe, the 

 trout will enter the stream as in former years and in as great a number. 



There were hatched and distributed from Tallac Hatchery during the 



Pig. 14. Racks and trap uu Taylor Creek, Lake Tahoe, April 1, 1922. Such tempo- 

 rary rack.s are utilized in .securing? black-.spotted trout for spawning i)urposes. 



last two seasons 1.818, ()()() trout fry. During 1922 we are hatcliiug 

 800,000 eggs. The troughs at this station need renewing and the station 

 needs a general overhauling and iiiauN' needed repairs. 



UPPER TRUCKEE RIVER EGG-COLLECTING STATION. 



In tlic fall (»!' 1920, a trap and egg-collecting station was established 

 on the Upper Truckee River, ])etvvcen the moutli of the Upper Truckee 

 River and Myers Station. The station was built to collect black-.spotted 

 trout eggs of the variety known as the large lakf^ trout which ascend 

 this stream to spawn; also to ])revent the fish from ascending the 

 stream to its upper reaches, ultimately to be destroyed on descending 

 the stream by the farmers and stock raisers damming the river to flood 

 their meadow lands during tlie sunumn- and fall. There does not app(>ai- 

 to be any law to prevent landowners from i)lacing temporary dams 

 in streams to raise the watei- level so that it will run over the land on 



