crustaceans, resembling young Lobsters, have, during the present season , 

 been caught in the Bay of San Francisco, which were not before known. 

 It is not yet definitely determined that these are the young of the 

 Lobsters brought from the East. 



We feel that this experiment in the importation of new varieties of 

 fish is so great a success that the people of the State are already amply- 

 repaid for the small amount of money expended in the undertaking. 



WHITE FISH. 



During the past Winter we received from the United States Govern- 

 ment, through the kindness of Professor Spencer F. Baird, United 

 States Fish Commissioner, twenty thousand White Fish eggs from Lake 

 Michigan {Corego7ius alba). We also purchased, in Charlestown, N. H., 

 sixty thousand eggs of the Eastern Brook Trout. It will be remem- 

 bered that in eighteen hundred and seventy-three, we received from the 

 Government of the United States twenty-five thousand White Fish 

 eggs from Lake Superior, which were successfully hatched at Clear 

 Lake, and placed in that body of water. Inasmuch as ('lear Lake 

 seemed to be well stocked with these fish — several mature fish having 

 been caught during the past Winter — we thought it advisable, if suc- 

 cessful in hatching, to place this donation in Tulare Lake; the inhabit- 

 ants of that vicinity very much desiring it, and the waters of that lake 

 being of the proper temperature and containing their natural food. We, 

 therefore, through the kindness of the Regents of the University, were 

 permitted to erect a small hatching-house on the banks of the stream 

 at Berkeley, where, under the supervision of Mr. J. G. Woodbury, these 

 eggs were successfully hatched. This point was selected because the 

 building erected on the University grounds, when not in use for hatch- 

 ing purposes, would be under the supervision of the officers of the Uni- 

 versity, and it seemed of importance that the students should have an 

 opportunity, if they so desired, to learn practically the process of fisji- 

 hatching. On the twenty-ninth of March, eighteen hundred and sev- 

 enty-five, the young fish were placed in Tulare Lake, which is the 

 largest body of fresh water in the State, and, we have no doubt, that 

 in a few j'ears it will be abundantly stocked with this most valuable 

 variety of food-fish. Experiments made by filling a vessel with water 

 from the lake, and placing some of the young fish in it, showed that the 

 water is filled with the minute vegetable matter and animalcula on which 

 the 3'oung fish feed, as they immediately commenced darting in every 

 direction in search of food. We carried the cans of young fish in a 

 boat some two hundred yards from the shore, and turned them into the 

 lake among large patches of tule where they can hide from their natural 

 enemies. The lake contains, at the present time, but two varieties of 

 fish that are used for food — a Perch, and a large cyprinoid, locally called 

 Lake Trout, and, if these experiments of planting in it White Fish 

 shall prove a success, it will give the people of the San Joaquin Valley 

 an abundance of most excellent fish. 



TROUT. 



The sixty thousand eggs of the Eastern Brook Trout were also 

 hatched at the State hatching-house, at Berkeley, under the supervision 

 of Mr. Woodbury, with a loss of only four per cent, which were dis- 

 tributed in the public waters of the State, as follows: 



