TWENTY-NINTH BIENNIAL REPORT. 49 



CLEAR CREEK HATCHERY. 



This station has been operated, to its capacity during the last two 

 seasons. The usual repairs have been made. The total number of 

 rainbow trout eggs collected at this station during the biennial period 

 was 3,000,000. The number of fish distributed was 1,359,462. 



WARNER CREEK TRAP. 



This trap was operated as usual and the eggs taken were sent to 

 Domingo Springs where they were eyed and part of them shipped to 

 other stations, the remainder being hatched and distributed from the 

 Domingo Springs Hatchery. 



DOMINGO SPRINGS HATCHERY. 



This station has been operated during the last biennial period 

 as in former years, except that the number of spawning fish are 

 getting less owing to the same conditions that are affecting all the 

 streams tributary to Lake Almanor, and that is excessive fishing. To 

 improve conditions at Clear Creek, Domingo Springs and Warner 

 Creek egg-taking stations and hatcheries, we recommend that a large 

 hatchery with a capacity of not less than 3,000,000 fish be established 

 on one of the tributaries of Lake Almanor and that all the eggs collected 

 from Clear Creek, Warner Creek, Rice Creek, and Butt Creek be 

 hatched in one centrally located hatchery where the fish will thrive 

 better and can be better cared for with less expense than where so 

 many small stations situated so near each other are operated. 



The. Red River Lumber Company has offered the state a site for a 

 large hatchery on the northwest shore of the lake where an abundant 

 supply of water from the North Fork of the Feather River is available; 

 for hatchery purposes and for a pond system. A stock of brood fish 

 to furnish eggs for the hatchery when the number of spawn fish in 

 Lake Almanor is reduced is desirable to keep this lake supplied with 

 an adequate number of fish to furnish fishing for the many anglers 

 who frequent this lake each season. Lake Almanor can be kept well 

 supplied with trout if adequate plans for keeping it stocked are taken 

 in time. 



This station planted 1,844,722 fish in the last two seasons. 



BUTT CREEK EGG-COLLECTING STATION. 



Racks and traps were built across Butt Creek in the spring of 1926 

 near its junction to the outlet of the Lake Almanor tunnel about two 

 miles from Butt Valley Reservoir, but owing to a heavy flood during 

 April, the racks were so badly damaged that the fish escaped and no 

 eggs were collected. A cabin was also constructed for the help. It is 

 planned to improve the racks another season by building a crib in the 

 stream and by using heavier timbers. 



PINE CREEK EGG-COLLECTING STATION. 



An attempt was made to collect eggs of the large rainbow trout that 

 ascend Pine Creek from Eagle Lake, but it was found that owing to 

 the light fall of snow that melted so rapidly, that the stream did not 



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