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REPORT OP STATE BOARD OP PISH COMMISSIONERS. 



The following report of Mr. E. W. Hunt gives a brief summary of 

 the work performed at these two stations for the seasons of 1905-06: 



Tahoe City, Cal., September 30, ly06. 

 To the Honorable the Board of Fish Commissioners of the State of California. 



Gentlemen : I herewith submit my detailed report of the work covering the seasons 

 of 1905 and 1906. 



Acting under instructions from your Honorable Board, I started for Tahoe on April 

 2, 1905, to open tbe stations for the spring and summer work. 



On April 3d I met Mr. D. L. Bliss, Jr., on his way to Tahoe, and was invited with my 

 party to accompany him to the Lake on special train of the Lake Tahoe Railway and 

 Transportation Company that was in Truckee awaiting his arrival. We arrived in 

 Tahoe at 11 :30 a. m., after a very pleasant ride. I inspected the buildings, which had 



MOUNT TALLAC AND TAYLOR CREEK, LAKE TAHOE. 

 SPAWN-COLLECTING STATION. 



been in charge of Captain P. Wehrman during the winter months, and found them in 

 very good condition and in readiness for business. I also looked at the new wharf put 

 in by the Captain during the winter. It is a very good piece of work. 



On April 4th I started for Taylor Creek, to commence operations with the seine. On 

 April 5th I fixed up quarters for the crew (Messrs. Wehrman, Robinson, and Anderson), 

 and cleaned up the seining ground. Commenced seining same evening, and continued 

 to do so until the night of May 7th. The weather during the time was very pleasant, 

 considering the spring of the year. We caught 2,612 trout(l, 712 males and 1,900 females). 

 The males averaged 2 pounds and the females \y 2 pounds. Number of females stripped, 

 1,875, averaging over 1,600 eggs to the fish. The total number of eggs taken was 

 3,150,0i '0. We shipped 500,000 eyed eggs from this station. Sisson Hatchery received 

 25^,000 and Wawona Hatchery received a like number, leaving about 2,500,000 to be 

 hatched at the Lake Tahoe stations. Tahoe Hatchery received 1,000,000, Tallac Hatchery 

 1,000,000, Glen Alpine and Camp Agassiz hatcheries, about 500,000. 



