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PISH AND GAME COMMISSION 



up our experiments, but from all the data gathered and experience 

 had in that locality, we recommend that the station be abandoned and 

 the equipment shipped where water conditions are better and where 

 some results can be obtained. There is no stream anywhere in the Kern- 

 ville section that is in condition to be used as a hatchery supply. It 

 is useless to plant any fish in Kern River, in the lower reaches, for 

 fish will not live in the main river during the summer months. Years 

 ago there were some trout in the vicinity of Kernville. They would 

 descend the river in the winter and spring, but they do not do so now. 

 The lower reaches of Kern River can be stocked by the installation of 

 tanks at the site of the last hatchery and the fry transported from some 

 one of the other hatcheries, after the water in Kern River has cleared 

 of the algae growths, that generally disappear after mid-summer. 



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Fig. 20. Kings River Experimental Hatchery. 



June, 1928. 



Photograph by E. G. Grimes. 



The upper reaches of the river can be stocked with fish from Mt. 

 Whitney Hatchery by pack train carrying the fish to the upper 

 reaches from the railroad between Mojave and Inyokern and probably 

 over other trails. 



BEAR LAKE HATCHERY 



While conditions were not as favorable during the last two seasons 

 as in the past years owing to the low condition of the water in Bear 

 Lake caused by the drought, our crews were successful in collecting 

 4,500,000 rainbow in 1926; 2,000,000 in 1927, and 1,700,000 in 1928. 



This number of eggs to be collected from Bear Lake is remarkable, 

 when we realize that there are thousands of bass in this lake to prey 



