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these were given a wide (listrilmtioii in tln' stt-cains tributary to Lake 

 Talioe. 



The new hatchery will liave a capacity of 3,000,000 fry up to the 

 swimming stage. Then the surplus fry can be placed in nursery ponds 

 until such time as they can be distributed. The work of fencing the 

 grounds, building roads, cottages for the superintendent and the help, 

 and a small building for the preparation of the fish food, will be car- 

 ried on during the coming fall and spring. 



An endeavor has been made to add a new variety of game fish to the 

 native species of trout in Lake Tahoe, by the introduction of the 

 renowned golden trout of the Mount Whitney region. Last summer a 

 consignment of 250,000 golden trout eggs were shipped from the ]\rount 

 Whitney Hatchery to the Lake Tahoe Hatchery. The resulting fry 

 were carefully reared and planted in the streams flowing into the lake, 

 where conditions appeared to be most favorable for them. If the 

 golden trout thrive in the waters of Lake Tahoe, it will mean much t4 

 the anglers of the .state, who enjoy the fishing in this region. 



MOUNT TALLAC HATCHERY. 



The Talhiv- Hatchery has been operated for the past two seasons as 

 formerly. Some changes have been nuule in the building to improve the 

 light and water supply. During the last three seasons of drought, the 

 water supply at Tallac Hatchery was effected as in other parts of the 

 state. 



Since the construction, by the Tallac Hotel management some years 

 ago, of a dam at the outlet of Fallen Leaf Lake, which holds ba^-k the 

 water that enters the lake from Glenn Alpine Creek, the principal feeder 

 of Fallen Leaf Lake, the water in Taylor Creek, the stream that is the 

 outlet of Fallen Leaf Lake, has been very low. Owing to the light rain- 

 fall in the autumn, and the unusually light fall of snow and rain during 

 the winter months, the water that has entered the lake, during the 

 last three winters, has l)een held back by the dam at the outlet of the 

 lake. Consequently, the flow of water in Taylor Creek has not been 

 great enough to attract the spawning fish to its mouth, where it pours 

 its waters into Lake Tahoe, and where our egg-collection station is 

 located. 



As a result of the conditions, the take of black-spotted trout eggs was 

 considerably less than in other seasons of normal rain and snowfall. 

 The Tallac egg collecting station at the mouth of Taylor Creek has 

 been one of the best egg collecting stations in the state. From three 

 to five million eggs have been collected annually from this station for 

 the last fifteen years. 



While there are fifteen other streams entering Lake Tahoe on the 

 California side of the lake where the trout have a chance to spawn 



