REPORT OF STATE BOARD OF FISH COMMISSIONERS 51 



mann, Assistant in Charge of Division of Scientific Inquiry, Bureau of 

 Fisheries, started for Redstone Park, Tulare County, in July, 1904, and 

 made an extended trip through the Mount Whitney region and gathered 

 a great deal of information in reference to them, which has been set 

 forth in a very interesting and beautifully illustrated bulletin issued by 

 the Bureau of Fisheries, May 19, 1906, entitled "Golden Trout of the 

 Southern High Sierras." 



Through the courtesy of the officials of the U. S. Bureau of Fisheries, we 

 are able to present two cuts of the Golden trout, and one of the Kern River 

 trout. An expedition was sent out by the U. S. Bureau of Fisheries to 

 collect specimens for the Lewis and Clark Exposition at Portland, Oregon. 

 Upwards of two hundred specimens were secured, which were brought 

 safely out of the mountains, but unfortunately met with a mishap en 

 route to Portland, and all were lost. In March, 1904, this Commission 

 undertook to collect some specimens of the fish for exhibition purposes at 

 the " Forest, Fish and Game Exhibit," held in San Francisco. Mr. R. W. 

 Requa, one of our experienced hatchery men, was detailed to make this 

 collection, and was assisted by Earl L. Morris, of Stanford University. 

 About fifty specimens of the fish, representing both types — Salmo roose- 

 velti and Salmo whitei (see colored plates) — were secured, most of them 

 taken with hook and line, from Cottonwood Creek, Inyo County, a 

 stream which has its source in Mount Whitney Military Reservation, 

 and flows in an easterly direction into Owens River. The fish were 

 transported a distance of nearly five hundred miles to San Francisco, 

 and were exhibited for two weeks without loss, notwithstanding they 

 were taken from waters of about 38° temperature and transferred to 

 waters the normal temperature of which was about 60°. At the close of 

 the exhibition, the fish were transported three hundred and fifty miles 

 farther to our Sisson Hatchery. It was evident that the abrupt change 

 in temperature had been too much for them. Three fourths of them 

 died on the way to Sisson. Among those that reached Sisson alive were 

 some females that were spawned by our Superintendent W. H. Shebley. 

 There were no ripe males among the survivors. Mr. Shebley fertilized 

 the eggs with the milt of Rainbow males, and has succeeded in raising 

 about three hundred hybrids. They are now a year and a half old, but 

 bear more resemblance to the Golden trout, the markings of that species 

 being more apparent than those of the Rainbow. 



During the past summer the U. S. Bureau of Fisheries sent another 

 expedition to Volcano Creek for the purpose of collecting several hun- 

 dred specimens, which are to be transported in a specially arranged car 

 to Eastern hatcheries. So far as our means permitted we were pleased 

 to assist the United States representatives, and furnished them with 

 pack animal cans and such other paraphernalia as would be useful to 

 them in making the collection. From the catch we hope to get a few 



