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New species of fisli iiiti'odueed will have a tondeney to feed nearer 

 the surface aud the anoflers will enjoy l)etter fishin*?. The introduction 

 of rainbow and steelhead trout should be kept up t'of a number of years 

 in as large numbers as possibU\ as it takes a long time to stock a body 

 of water as large as Lake Tahoe with a new species. 



In 1!)18, there were hatched and reared at ^Tount Tallae Hatchery, 

 14i),()0() rainbow, 1,18;},()()() I.lack-spotted and 335,000 steelhead trout 

 fry, and 1919, 51,000 rainbow, 685,000 black-spotted and 185,000 

 steelhead fry were distributed in Lake Tahoe and other waters of thaf 

 section. 



The steelhead trout have made such a remarkable growth, and pro- 

 duced such a title, gamey, tighting tish when planted in inland lakes of 

 the high Sierra that it was deemed essential that an effort be made to 

 introduce this species in the waters of Lake Tahoe, hence a shipment of 

 steelhead trout eggs is being sent to I\Io\uit Tallae Hatchery each season 

 and the fry are planted in the most favorable locations. 



FORT SEWARD HATCHERY. 



The hatchery established in 1916 on Fort Seward Creek, Humboldt 

 County, has more than filled our expectations, the fry produced at this 

 hatchery being the best reared in any of the liateheries locatiMl in the 

 Coast counties. 



The hatchery building is situated near tlu^ creek in a steep-walled can- 

 yon and the superintendent's dwelling on an eminence overlooking the 

 hatchery. As our funds were limited at the time the hatchery was estab- 

 lished, only a poorly constructed cabin could be built for the help be- 

 sides the cottage for the su|)crititendent. During the fall of 1919. two 

 four-room cottages, of plain interior finish atul shingle outside, were 

 built so that men with families could be employed. It is a difficult 

 matter to find competent help that will stay for any length of time in an 

 isolated place such as this, sixty miles south of Eureka on the main line 

 of the Northwestern Pacific Railroad and five miles from the post office 

 and store at Fort Seward, unless every comfort is provided. 



The water in Fort Seward Creek is the only water suitable for 

 hatchery purposes on the line of the Northwestern Pacific Railroad. 

 There are several streams between South Fork station and Fortuna, but 

 they all have their sources in the same sedimentary formation as Price 

 Creek, where we were compelled to abandon the hatchery owing to the 

 great amount of sediment carried in the water during the winter and 

 spring when the rainy season was at its height. 



We have endeavored to find a location from whieh an ample supply 

 of salmon and steelhead eggs could be collected for this hatchery, so 

 that Eel River may not be depleted of the valuable run of salmon and 



