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EEL RIVER EGG-COLLECTING STATION. 



Extensive egg-collecting ec|nipment was installed during the fall of 

 1921 on the South Fork of Eel River, near Branscomb. Racks, traps, 

 holding pens and cabins for the assistants have been put in on the South 

 Fork of Eel River. Racks and traps have also been placed in Charlie 

 Creek, and on Kinney Creek an eyeing station has been put in and 

 racks, traps, pens, etc., installed. The station has been equipped for 

 extensive operations, and it is the intention to collect the eggs of the 

 steelhead trout as well as those of the salmon, 



BROOKDALE HATCHERY. 



In 1905 Mr. F, A, Shebley located a hatchery at Brookdale for the 

 county of Santa Cruz, on a tributary of the San Lorenzo River, twelve 

 miles from the city of Santa Cruz. It has proved to be one of the best 

 steelhead hatcheries on the coast, and the increased number of steelhead 

 trout in the streams of Santa Cruz County is sufficient evidence of the 

 success of this station. An auxiliary of the Brookdale Hatchery was 

 established on Scott Creek, and it has been jointly operated by the 

 California Fish Commission and Santa Cruz County. The fry hatched 

 from the eggs collected at this station are distributed in the waters of 

 Santa Cruz, San Mateo, Santa Clara and Monterey counties, and some 

 of the eggs are shipped to Sisson and Eel River hatcheries for distribu- 

 tion in other localities. Beginning with July 1, 1912, both Brookdale 

 Hatchery and Scott Creek spawning station have been operated exclu- 

 sively by the state and a general distribution made of the product. 



EDGEWOOD EGG-COLLECTING STATION. 



After the abandonment of the station at Verdi, the commission still 

 considered it wise to establish a station on some stream where a supply 

 of rainbow eggs could be collected at small cost. Superintendent W. H. 

 Shebley of Sisson was sent to examine the different streams in Siskiyou 

 County for that purpose. He selected a point on the Shasta River 

 near Edgewood, Siskiyou County. The cost of operating w^as light and, 

 besides, the eggs could be transported direct from the spawning station 

 to the Sisson Hatchery, avoiding the expense of a double crew of men. 



The station was operated for the first time in 1906, but owing to 

 unusual freshets which swept over the racks, most of the spawning fish 

 were able to pass them, so that only about 50,000 eggs were taken. 

 This, however, was considered sufficient to demonstrate the value of the 

 station. An agreement was entered into with the Federal Bureau of 

 Fisheries, which desired to establish a rainbow egg-collecting station, 

 whereby the federal bureau was to bear part of the expense of operation 

 of the station and was to receive in exchange the privilege of eyeing 

 their eggs in the Sisson Hatchery. This arrangement was considered 

 mutually beneficial to both commissions, and it tended to insure a 

 continuance of the harmonious relations that existed between the two, 



THE SACRAMENTO EXPERIMENTAL STATION. 



During the fall of 1911 the commission decided to carry on a series 

 of experiments to determine whether the eggs of the quinnat salmon 

 could be successfully hatched and the fry reared near the city of Sacra- 



