source in the state. It furnishes the state with all the Loch Leven 

 eggs that are needed. During the biennium, 3,632,656 eggs were 

 taken. 



Willow Creek Station at Harrison, Montana, did not provide as 

 many eggs as it has in the past. Only 4,378,972 rainbow eggs were 

 taken. This lake formerly was closed to fishing. Opening a portion 

 of the lake to fishing apparently has a direct effect on the number 

 of eggs taken at the trap. 



Ashley Lake provided the state with 983,680 native trout eggs and 

 Lake Ronan furnished 270,336 rainbow eggs, during the year 1949. 



Under the management of the Libby hatchery, during the bi- 

 ennium, traps were installed on Prospect Creek, Vermillion Creek, 

 and Bull River for trapping dolly varden trout and provided eggs 



Fertilizing Native Trout Eggs 



to rear dolly varden trout for the Flathead Lake area. Approxi- 

 mately 600,000 dolly varden trout eggs were taken from the Thompson 

 Falls area. This is a program designed to again re-establish the dolly 

 varden population and spawn runs in the tributary streams of Flat- 

 head Lake. 



The only source developed for the taking of sockeye salmon is 

 Flathead Lake and it has provided annually about three and one- 

 half million sockeye -salmon eggs for use in Flathead Lake and other 

 waters of the state. 



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