REPORT OF STATE BOARD OF FISH COMMISSIONERS. 



13 



Since the passage of the Act by the last Legislature mak- 

 STURGEON. ing the months of April, May, June, July, and August a 



close season for sturgeon, many reports have come to us of 



the large number of these fish seen far up the Sacramento and San Joaquin 



rivers in places where they have but rarely been seen for years. We are 



encouraged to think that these fish, being now able to reach natural 



spawning-grounds unmolested, will in a few years come into the markets 



in increasing instead of diminishing numbers. The abolishment of the 



use of the barbarous sturgeon hook, which kills the small as well as the 



large fish of this species, as well as all other species, should greatly 



help to increase the productiveness of this fishery. The receipts of this 



fish for 1896 are given herewith: 



January - - ..- 34,181 pounds. 



February .- 26,955 pounds. 



March 18,625 pounds. 



Total - 79,761 pounds. 



The principal market supply of trout has continued to come 

 TROUT. from the Lake Tahoe region. The following table of ship- 

 ments from Truckee is furnished by the U. S. Commission 

 of Fish and Fisheries. The figures for 1896 are not yet obtainable: 



Number of Pounds of Cut-throat Trout Caught in Lake Tahoe and Shipped from Truckee. 



Month. 



1894. 



1895. 



April 



May 



June 



July.. 



August 



September. 

 October 



Totals 



7,480 

 10,319 

 2,642 

 7,095 

 4,176 

 3,256 



928 

 4,643 

 5,728 

 6,299 

 3,376 

 5,741 

 2,035 



34,968 



28,750 



In 1895 fishing was resumed in Lake Tulare after an 



LAKE interval of several years, during which time the Sacra- 



TULARE. mento River perch have rapidly increased in abundance. 



This Commission made a plant of black bass, yellow perch, 



and sunfish in this lake in May, 1896, and ordinances were passed by the 



Supervisors of Kings and Tulare counties prohibiting fishing with nets. 



The number of pounds of Sacramento River perch taken in this lake in 



1895 follows. The figures are furnished by the U. S. Commission of 



Fish and Fisheries: 



• 



March 313 pounds. 



April 14,876 pounds. 



May 3,945 pounds. 



June 2,760 pounds. 



September 230 pounds. 



October 1,185 pounds. 



Total 23,309 pounds. 



