REPORT OF STATE BOARD OF FISH COMMISSIONERS 49 



Report on Salmon Hatch. 



Grizzly Bluff, Cal., May 1, 1906. 

 To the Honorable the Board of Fish Commissioners. 



Gentlemen : The following is my report of the salmon hatch at this station for the 

 season commencing December 1, 1905, and ending April 6, 1906. The eggs arrived in six 

 shipments, as follows: 



December 9,1905 1,274,000 



December 27, 1905 1,671,720 



January 1, 1906 - 1,497,600 



January 10,1906 .. - 1,500,000 



January 29, 1906 - 2,000,000 



February 13, 1906 - 2,000,000 



Total 9,943,320 



The hatch was successful excepting a rather heavy loss on the first two shipments in 

 transit, and a 25 per cent loss in the last shipment, caused by the eggs hatching on the 

 trays before I received them. Prom this hatch there was planted in Eel River and 

 I'rice Creek 9,265,920 healthy fry. The Following is a summary of the hatch : 



Eggs received 9,943,32o 



Eggs lost 443.IKD 



Loss in rearing - 297,500 



Fry distributed... 9,265,920 



Yours respectfully, 



\V. (>. FASSKTT. 



Report on Steelhead Work, Season of 1905. 



Grizzly Bluff, Cal., May 15, 1905. 

 To the Honorable the Board of Fish Commissioners. 



Gent i. km in: The following is my report on the steelhead work at this -tat ion for the 

 season of 1905. This season I made every effort to get fish from the river by means of a 

 seine, but am satisfied that satisfactory results can never be obtained by this plan, 

 Owing to the immaturity of the fish, and the uncertainty of weather conditions. In 

 February the seining crew went up the river sonic twenty-live miles, and brought down 

 t he tish they caught in live cars, which I transferred to a pond near the hatchery, in 

 the hopes I could hold them until they ripened. This experiment was a failure, as the 

 tish were so very active that those which did not kill themselves outright in the cars, 

 bruised themselves so that they died shortly after being placed in the pond. I next 

 attempted to hold the fish we caught at a point twenty-live miles up the river, in the 

 hopes that I could spawn them and take the spawn to the hatchery in a row-boat by 

 way of t lie river, but the same conditions prevailed Most of the fish we caught were at 

 least three to four weeks from their spawning period. While the seining crew were 

 working on the river, I also had the trap at Price Creek in operation, with the follow- 

 ing result: 



Total number of eggs taken 287,000 



Total number of eggs eyed 258,000 



Loss in eying . .. 29,000 



Loss in hatching and rearing 15,400 



Fry distributed 243,000 



Number of fish caught — 



Males .- 50 



Females. 107 



Number of females spawned 69 



Average weight of fish — 



Males .- 3 K>s. 



Females 5 lbs. 



Highest temperature of water 69° 



Lowest temperature of water 48° 



The fry were all placed in Price and Howe creeks. 



Yours respectfullv, 



W. O. FASSETT. 



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