54 EEPORT OF STATE BOARD OF FISH COMMISSIONERS. 



Pti/chocheilus rapax Girard. 



Pti/chocheilus harfordi Jordan and Gilljert. Sacramento Pike. 



Phoxinus montaniis Cope. 



Phoxinus orcuttii E. and E. 



Phoxinus conformis Girard. 



Phoxinus bicolor Girard. 



Phoxinus obesus Girard. 



Phoxinus crassicauda Baird and Girard. 



Phoxinus crassus Girard. 



Phoxinus coeruleus Girard. 



Algansea dimidiata Cope. Chub. 



Algansea symmietrica Baird and Girard. 



Algansea bicolor Girard. 



Luxilinus occidentaUs Baird and Girard. 



Coregonus ivilliamsoni Girard. Whitefish. 



Oncorhynchus gorbuscha Walbaum. Humpback Salmon. 



Oncorhynchus keta Walbaum. Dog Salmon. 



Oncorhynchus tchmvytcha Walbaum. Quinnat Salmon. 



Oncorhynchus kisutch Walbaum. Silver Salmon. 



Salmo gairdneri Richardson. Steel-head Salmon. 



Salmo gairdneri irideus Ayers. Brook Trout. 



Salmo purpuratus Pallas. Oregon Brook Trout. 



Salmo purpuratus heushatvi Gill and Jordan. Tahoe Trout. 



Salvelimis malma Walbaum. Dolly Varden. 



Gasterosteus williamsoni Girard. Stickleback. 



Gasterosteus microcephahi.s Girard. Stickleback. 



Archoplites interruptus Girard. Sacramento Perch. 



Coitus asper Richardson. 



Cottus semiscabrus centropleurus E. and E. 



Cottus gulosus Girard. 



Cottus minutus Pallas. " Catfish." 



By saying that the number of species of fresh-water fishes is limited, I 

 do not wish to imply that the food fishes are less in number or inferior 

 in quality, but merely that we have less variety, a defect which can be 

 remedied by introducing other species. 



DESIRABLE SPECIES TO IMPORT. 



The most prominent food fishes of the Mississippi Valley which are not 

 indigenous to California, are the various catfishes, the buffalo, the 

 pickerels, most of the sunfishes, especially the Black bass, the perches, 

 and the bass. Several of these have already been introduced. 



In the southern part of the State, where all but the moun,tain sources 

 of the rivers dry up during the summer, we naturally have but few fresh- 

 water fishes, and any attempts to stock these rivers are, of course, futile. 

 There are but four diff^erent species of fishes in the fresh waters of San 

 Diego County, exclusive of the Colorado River. One is a small killifish 

 living in the hot springs of the Colorado Desert, another a small stickle- 

 back, a third a small minnow, while the only eatable fish is the Salmo 

 irideus, which occurs, as far as known, only in Pala Creek. There is 

 scarcely more variety till we reach the Tulare Basin. Salmo irideris, or the 

 Brook trout, is the only food fish south of the Tulare Basin, and it never 

 reaches a large size there. A few species of marine fishes run up the 

 Southern California streams during spring. Chief of these is the mullet. 

 When the dams of the Sweetwater reservoirs were opened, to clear part of 

 the land of the water, large numbers of Sea bass ascended the stream thus 

 formed. With these remarks Southern California may be dismissed. 



The remainder of California may be divided into the Tulare, Sacra- 

 mento, Klamath, and Tahoe regions, each of which has a different set of 

 food fish. They are: 



