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Twenty thousand in the lakes and streams of Mendocino, Sonoma, 

 Napa, and Yolo Counties. 



Ten thousand in the North Fork of the American Eiver, in Placer 

 County. 



Ten thousand in Prosser Creek, in Nevada County, and twenty thou- 

 sand in Calaveras Creek, in Alameda and Santa Clara Counties, and in 

 other streams emptying in the Bay of San Francisco. 



SHAD. 



We were unable to procure from the United States Government any 

 young shad during the past two j'ears. The hatching of them by the 

 Government was not so successful as heretofore, and all that were 

 hatched were required to be turned into the rivers running into the 

 Atlantic. California is promised a large supply if the Government is 

 successful in hatching during the next year. Of the fifty thousand 

 that have been heretofore planted in the Sacramento Eiver, in eighteen 

 hundred and seventj'-one, and eighteen hundred and seventy-three, by 

 Seth Green and Livingston Stone, we know that manj'^ of the first have 

 returned from the ocean, and, without doubt, have spawned. The last 

 lot of thirty-five thousand will certainly return from the ocean in 

 February and March next for the same purpose. We believe that 

 these experiments of transplanting Shad to the rivers of the Pacific 

 Coast, will prove a success. We know of some sixteen full-grown Shad 

 having been caught at Vallejo and in the Sacramento River, and have 

 heard reports of others having been taken during the present season; 

 but, as under an Act of the Legislature, every person who takes a Shad 

 prior to March, eighteen hundred and seventy-seven, is sulvject to a pen- 

 alty of fifty dollars, we find it difiicult to obtain information in rela- 

 tion to the catching of Shad, until after the evidence has disappeared. 



We believe that after eighteen hundred and seventy-seven, Shad will 

 be found quite numerous in the Sacramento liiver. 



SALMON. 



The largest establishment in the world, for the hatching of salmon 

 eggs, is that of the Government of the United States, on the McCloud 

 Eiver, in Shasta County, under the superintendence of Mr. Livingston 

 Stone. At this point from six to ten million of young Salmon are 

 hatched each year and distributed to the Fish Commissioners of the 

 various States having rivers suitable for their growth and increase. In 

 eighteen hundred and seventy-three California received from this source 

 half a million fish, which were turned into the Sacramento Eiver. The 

 Government works at this point are so extensive, and conducted with 

 such economy, that it is found that the total cost of hatching one thou- 

 sand fish from the egg is but one dollar. 



We have thought it to be of so much public importance to increase 

 this valuable variety of fish in its native waters, that during the past 

 year we considered it advisable to expend one thousand dollars in the 

 hatching of a million more fish, to be placed in the Sacramento Eiver. 

 We therefore applied one thousand dollars of our small appropriation 

 to this jiurpose, and the fish have been successfully turned loose. 



Our appropriation being about exhausted, we will this year pay for 

 the hatching of but half a million more fish. 



The importance of the object of increasing the quantity of Salmon in 



