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ALMANOR HATCHERY. 



Almanor Hatchery was established in 1916 at the Big Meadows dam 

 of the Great Western Power Company on Lake Almanor. It produced 

 261,000 rainbow eggs in 1918 and 282,000 in 1919. The water supply 

 fails too early in the summer to permit the hatching and rearing of fry 

 at the station, and accordingly the eggs were transferred to Clear 

 Creek or Domingo Springs hatcheries as soon as they were "eyed." 



YOSEMITE EXPERIMENTAL STATION. 



With the intention of keeping the streams of the Yosemite Valley 

 adequately stocked with trout fry, the commission during the fall of 

 1917 made a survey of conditions obtaining in the valley with reference 

 to the establishment of a hatchery. A suitable site was obtained for a 

 fine hatchery near Happy Isles, and application was made to the Depart- 

 ment of the Interior for a lease to the property required for operations. 

 Every assurance was given by the Yosemite Park officials that the 

 department would grant a suitable lease, and pending the outcome of 

 negotiations for the same the commission took advantage of a temporary 

 permit granted it to establish an experimental hatchery on the site, in 

 order that it might be definitely determined as to the practicability of 

 the location for the propagation of trout. Arrangements were made 

 with the State Department of Engineering for the preparation of 

 suitable plans for the permanent hatchery. 



The experimental station was established during the fall and winter 

 of 1918 and was opened up for operations in the spring of 1919. Four 

 hundred thousand rainbow, black-spotted and steelhead trout eggs were 

 shipped to the station, and the resulting fry were reared and planted 

 in the streams and lakes of the Yosemite Valley with the cooperation 

 of park officials. The fry produced were vigorous and healthy and 

 attained an unusual size in the few months that they were reared in 

 the hatchery. 



The site was demonstrated as being satisfactory for hatchery pur- 

 poses, but as it is against the policy of the state to erect permanent 

 buildings on leased land it was decided at a meeting of the Board of 

 Fish and Game Commissioners, held during the latter part of October, 

 1920, to abandon the project. All equipment was therefore removed 

 from the site and transported by auto trucks to the Wawona Hatchery, 

 where it has been used to equip that station for more extensive 

 operations. 



MOUNT WHITNEY HATCHERY. 



On February 2, 1917, the Mount Whitney Hatchery, located on a 

 forty-acre tract on Oak Creek near the town of Independence, Inyo 

 County, was turned over to the Fish and Game Commission by the 

 Department of Engineering, under whose supervision the hatchery was 

 constructed. The building is a beautiful structure of granite and 

 gabro, and the coloring of the rubble walls blends harmoniously into 

 the background of giant peaks that form the west wall of the valley. 

 The building contains officas, storerooms and a laboratory on the lower 

 floor and living quarters for the help in the upper story of the struc- 

 ture. It is equipped with up-to-date plumbing. All the troughs have 



