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The success of early experiments and the efficiency of the present 

 fishcultural department have been due largely to the untiring care and 

 energy of Mr. "W. H. Shebley. There is no one in America who 

 possesses greater knowledge of fishcultural methods. Present fishcul- 

 tural methods and the system of rearing ponds installed at the Mount 

 Shasta Hatchery will always be a monument to his ingenuity. 



On March 1, 1916, the office of the department of fishculture was 

 transferred from Sisson to San Francisco. Extensive fishcultural oper- 

 ations demanded a more centrally located section. Mr. E. W. Hunt was 

 appointed field superintendent of the department of fishculture, and 

 Mr. J. H. Hoerl chief clerk. Mr. Shebley was succeeded as superin- 

 tendent of the Sisson Hatchery by Captain G. H. Lambson, who for 

 seventeen years was superintendent of the United States Bureau of 

 Fisheries stations in California. 



The hatcheries at Lake Tahoe were for twenty years under the super- 

 vision of Mr. E. W. Hunt, who is a fishculturist of long standing and 

 a man of keen business ability. The results of his management are 

 evident now in the well-stocked lakes and streams of the region. Since 

 1916 Mr. Hunt, as field superintendent, has done most of the inspection 

 and advisory work at the various hatcheries. 



The work at Ukiah was for many years very capably handled by Mr. 

 A. V. La Motte. 



For many years Mr. M. L. Cross had charge of the Wawona Hatchery 

 and directed the distribution that has placed trout in hundreds of miles 

 of streams and thousands of acres of lakes in the previously barren 

 areas lying above and beyond the Yosemite Valley. As a hatchery man, 

 his work was always above criticism. 



For many years previous to his death in 1918, Mr. F. A. Shebley was 

 a trusted fishculturist of the commission. He was the son of Califor- 

 nia's first famous fishculturist, and had succeeded before his death, in 

 company with his brother, William H. Shebley, in making a reputation 

 in the same line of endeavor as great, if not greater, than that of the 

 father who had gone before. As a boy he followed farming on his 

 father's place, but for twenty-five years he was identified exclusively 

 with fishculture in connection with the California Fish and Game Com- 

 mission, and there were few men on the Pacific slope who knew as 

 much about fish and fishing in the waters of the rivers and bays as he. 

 At various times he was superintendent of the Price Creek hatchery in 

 Humboldt County and the Brookdale Hatchery in Santa Cruz County, 

 and later the new Mount Whitney Hatchery in Inyo County. Under 

 his management the Brookdale Hatchery became very popular and was 

 sought out by sportsmen from all over California as a place of great 

 interest. Also interested in angling as a sport, he was a master of the 

 fly rod and a skilled angler. 



In 1900 Mr. W. 0. Fassett was appointed superintendent of Eel 

 River Hatchery, and under his management the station was a continued 

 success. In more recent years Mr. Fassett has had charge of all of the 

 fishcultural operations along the north coast. 



In October, 1901, Mr. Charles A. Vogelsang was appointed chief 

 deputy of the California Fish and Game Commission, following the 

 resignation of Mr. J. P. Babcock. During the administration of Mr. 

 Vogelsang as executive officer of the commission (1901-1910) a number 



