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CALIFORNIA PISH AND GAME. 



ACCLIMATIZATION SOCIETY HATCHERY. 



The California Acclimatization Society, under the supervision of Mr. 

 J. G. Woodbury, first began experimenting, and had made several suc- 

 cessful hatches of eggs introduced from the Eastern states previous to 

 the establishment of a state fish commission. A small hatchery, situated 

 near the City ITall in San Francisco, was utilized in this pioneer work. 



STATE HATCHING HOUSE AT BERKELEY. 



The first hatchery owned and operated by the state was situated on 

 the grounds of the State University at Berkeley. Up to 1873 the Accli- 

 matization Society actually operated this hatchery and was paid hy the 

 Pish C^onnnission for the trout reared. 



CLEAR LAKE EXPERIMENTAL HATCHERY. 



In the early seventies, also, a temi)orary station was operated on 

 Kelsey Creek, tributary to Clear Lake, for the purpose of hatching a 

 shipment of whitefish sent to the California commission by the United 



Via. 32. TTnited States Fish Hatchery at Baird, Shasta County, in .July, 1SS2. 

 This was for many years the most impcrtant sahr.c ii-egg collecting atatioix in 

 California. 



States Fish Commission. Eastern brook trout, landlocked salmon and 

 whitefish, as well as the native varieties, were propagated with some 

 success, but the location was not suitable for carrying on the work on 

 a Iqrge scale. 



BAlRD HATCHERY, 



The circumstances surrounding tlie establishment of the first salmon 

 luitchery are as follows: In 1872 the United States commission 

 instructed Dr. Livingston Stone to proceed to the Pacific Coast and 

 there obtain a supply of salmon eggs from the Pacific salmon. Dr. 

 Stone was at that time one of the recognized authorities on fishculture 

 in the United States. lie had been engaged in the work of fisliculture 



