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TABLE 1 

 Hatcheries and Egg Collecting Stations Operated 1942-43 



Hafcheries 



Alpine, temporarily closed in 1943 Kaweah 



Arrowhead, closed in 1943 Kern 



Basin Creek Kinjrs River 



Black Rock, opened in 1942 Lake Almanor 



Brookdale jNIadera (seasonal) , temporarily closed 



Burney Creek in 1943 



Central Valleys Mount Shasta 



Coy Flat (seasonal), opened in 1942 Mount Whitney 



Fall Creek Prairie Creek 



Feather River Rearing Reservoirs, closed in 1943 



Fern Creek, closed in 1942 Sequoia 



Fillmore, enlarged in 1942 Tahoe 



Fort Sevpard, closed in 1943 Tallac 



Hat Creek Tosemite 



Huntington Lake (seasonal), tempo- Yuba River 

 rarily closed in 1943 



Egg Collecting Stations 

 Fall Creek (Steelhead and salmon) Heenan Lake (Black spotted), closed in 



Little Walker Lake (Eastern brook) 1943 



Prairie Creek and Lost Man Creek Kirman Lake (Eastern brook), closed in 



(Silver salmon) 1943 



Rush Creek (Loch Leven) Klamathon (King salmon), temporarily 



San Lorenzo River (Steelhead) closed 1943 



Snow Mountain (Steelhead) Lake Eleanor (Rainbow), closed in 1943 



Shasta River (Steelhead), closed in 1943 



At the end of the biennium only four of the seven members who com- 

 posed the regular biological staff at the start of the war remained on duty 

 — Brian Curtis, Supervising Fisheries Biologist, and Joseph H. Wales, 

 Leo Shapovalov and William A. Dill, District Biologist. The three 

 junior aquatic biologists were on military leave, Earl Herald having left 

 before the beginning of the biennium and Elden Vestal and Chester 

 Woodhull at the end of 1942. Six men were employed at various times 

 on seasonal or part-time basis, A. B. Murphy, Alex E. Culbertson, J. C. 

 Marr, Garth Murphy, Warren R. Cheney and William H. Davenport. 



The accomplishments of the staff are to some extent reflected in the 

 list of reports and publications which follows. Routine activities were 

 carried on such as lake and stream surveys and recommendations for 

 stocking, for stream closures and for other forms of regulation. Projects 

 of special interest are described below. 



The life history of the steelhead and, incidentally, of the silver 

 salmon, has been under study at Waddell Creek since 1932. Mr. Leo 

 Shapovalov has practically completed writing up this work which will be 

 published shortly and which will be an outstanding contribution to the 

 knowledge of these species. 



That part of the Colorado River which borders California was sur- 

 veyed by William A. Dill and Chester Woodhull in 1942. The resulting 

 report, published in July of 1944 after an exhaustive study of the data 

 obtained, preseiits information about this area never before brought 

 togethei- under one cover and offers concrete proposals for the manage- 

 ment and regulation of the fishery. 



