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New species of fish intr-odncod will liave a tendency to feed nearer 

 the surface and the aiitjlers will enjoy better fishinj?. The introduction 

 of rainbow and steelhead trout should be kept up for a number of years 

 in as larj^e numbers as possible, as it takes a long time to stock a body 

 of water as lar^e as Lake Tahoe with a new species. 



In IDIS. tliere were hatched and reared at IMount Tallac Hatchery, 

 149,000 rainbow, ], 133,000 black-spotted and 335,000 .steelhead trout 

 fry, and 1919, 51,000 rainbow, 685,000 black-spotted and 185,000 

 steelhead fry were distributed in Lake Tahoe and other waters of that 

 section. 



The .steelhead trout have made such a remarkable growth, and pro- 

 duced such a fine, gamey, fighting fish when planted in inland lakes of 

 the high Sierra that it was deemed essential that an effort be made to 

 introduce this species in the waters of Lake Tahoe, hence a shipment of 

 steelhead trout eggs is being sent to Mount Tallac Hatchery each season 

 and the fry are planted in the most favorable locations. 



FORT SEWARD HATCHERY, 



The li;i1ch(M'y established in 1910 on Fort Seward Creek, Humboldt 

 County, has more than filled our expectations, the fry produced at this 

 hatchery being the best reared in any of the hatcheries located in the 

 Coast counties. 



The hatchery building is situated near the creek in a steep-walled can- 

 yon and the superintendent '^; dwelling on an eminence overlooking the 

 hatchery. As our funds were limited at the time the hatchery was estab- 

 lished, only a poorly constructed cabin could be built for the help be- 

 sides the cottage for the superintendent. During the fall of 1919, two 

 four-room cottages, of plain interior fini.sh and shingle outside, were 

 built .so that men with families could be employed. It is a difficult 

 matter to find competent help that will stay for any length of time in an 

 isolated place such as this, sixty miles south of Eureka on the main line 

 of the Northwestern Pacific Railroad and five miles from the post office 

 and store at Fort Seward, unless every comfort is provided. 



The water in Fort Seward Creek is the only water suitable for 

 hatchery purposes on the line of the Northwestern Pacific Railroad. 

 There are .several streams between South Fork station and Fortuna, but 

 they all have their sources in the same sedimentary formation as Price 

 Creek, where we were compelled to abandon the hatchery owing to the 

 great amount of sediment carried in the water during the winter and 

 spring when the rainy season was at its height. 



•We have endeavored to find a location from which an ample supply 

 of salmon and steelhead eggs could be collected for this hatchery, so 

 that Eel River may not be depleted of the valuable run of salmon and 



