REPOirr OF THE FlSll AND GAME COMMISSION. 



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winter months the creek was so full of sediment that it was only with 

 the greatest skill and care that fish could be reared at all. In the spring 

 the water dried up rapidly and became very warm so that it was impos- 

 sible to hold the fry later than June. The commission decided to remove 

 the hatchery to a more favorable location. The Department of Fish- 

 culture was instructed to select a suitable site and to move the station. 

 After a careful survey of the streams on the line of the Northwestern 

 Pacific Railroad we selected Fort Seward Creek, a cold, clear stream 

 flowing into Eel River about four and one-half miles above old Fort 

 Seward, Humboldt Coimty. The commission purchased forty acres of 

 land near the mouth of the creek and selected a site for the hatchery 

 about one-quarter of a mile from the Northwestern Pacific Railroad. 



Fig. 47. New hatchery at Fort Seward, Humboldt County. Photograph by Silas Campbell. 



Early in 1916, the work of moving the building, tanks, flumes, etc., 

 from Price Creek to the new site on Fort Seward Creek was begun, and 

 in due time it was completed and ready for the spring hatch of trout 

 eggs (see Fig. 47). W. 0. Fassett, who has been superintendent of the 

 Price Creek Hatchery for a number of years past, was placed in charge 

 of the new station and he has successfully carried on the Avork as in 

 former years. A cottage for the superintendent and a cabin for the 

 men was erected and finished in a rough way until more comfortable 

 quarters could be arranged. 



The building and troughs were ready for the steelhead eggs collected 

 at the Snow Mountain egg collecting station during the spring. One 

 million steelhead eggs were shipped to the station and the resulting 

 fry are to be distributed in the streams of Mendocino and Humboldt 

 counties. Besides the steelhead eggs, 100,000 rainbow trout eggs from 

 the Lake Almanor station and 110,000 black-spotted trout eggs from the 



