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REPORT OF THE FISH AND GAME COMMISSION. 



The Red River Lumber Company furnished the site and material 

 for the Clear Creek Hatchery and the Fish and Game Commission fur- 

 nished the labor for construction. We have operated there for the last 

 two seasons with good results. 



Clear Creek Station was first operated during the summer of 1918, 

 189,000 rainbow trout eggs being shipped in from Almanor Hatchery 

 and the resulting fry reared to a good size and given a wide distribu- 

 tion ill tlie waters in the vicinity of Westwood. During the season of 

 1919, 157,000 rainbow trout fry were reared and distributed from 

 Clear Creek Hatchery. 



BEAR LAKE HATCHERY. 



In our Biennial Report of 1918, we made mention of the necessity of 

 increasing the capacity of the Bear Lake Hatchery at Green Spot 



Fig. 11. The oid una invv luuclieiy at Green Spot Springs, Big Bear Valley, San 

 Bernardino County, May 21, 1920. Photograpli by L. Pliilips. 



Springs. We had been using the old buildings that had been erected 

 by the Southern California Trout Association, but it was poorly con- 

 structed and the arrangements of the troughs were not right to do good 

 work. 



After procuring a permit from the Forest Service for a site adjacent 

 to the site leased to us by San Bernardino County, a new hatchery with 

 modern troughs was erected and fully equipped for the hatching and 

 rearing of trout fry. The site at Green Spot Springs is about twelve 

 miles from the egg collecting station at North Creek. This is the 

 only water available for hatchery purposes near Bear Lake. All the 



