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"I may add that it is the purpose in connection with this 

 summer's fish planting work in the high Sierra to keep a careful 

 record of the present fish plantings and to secure data of previous 

 plantings with a view to have authoritative references for the 

 future as to the varieties of fish, their origin and where to be 

 found in the streams whose fountain heads are in the Sierras, 

 these data to be recorded not only in the pubhcations of the Cali- 

 fornia Fish Commission, but also in the bulletins of the United 

 States Fisheries Bureau." 



In this connection Warden Ferguson stated further that as the 

 result of the summer's fish campaign and allowing the fish three 

 or four years' time to multiply a work will be accomplished that 

 was started in 1891, and that in regions with no previous plantings, 

 save then with the assistance of stockmen, upwards of 100 streams 

 and lakes will be stocked that have previously been barren of fish 

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"A glance at the map will show," said he, ''that the headwaters 

 of the San Joaquin and the Kings have their rise almost wholly 

 in Fresno, and naturally there are 100 or more tributary streams 

 that will make perfect trout waters and make the mountains in 

 the San Joaquin Valley a paradise for the fishermen. The plan 

 incidentally involves the keeping of the varieties separate and as 

 far as possible to plant the streams to particular varieties. 



"It has been demonstrated that trout planted in new waters 

 thrive amazingly well and grow to greater size than in the 

 streams that have known them for generations. The mere fact 

 that no streams in the high mountains have been found in which 

 they are in their native state is not an indication that the trans- 

 planted fish will not thrive there. The barrenness of these 

 streams in the high altitudes is readily accounted for on the 

 very plausible theory that coming from high plateaus these 

 streams have high falls which preclude the fish ascending from 

 the main streams to spawn. Where the fish have been planted 

 above such falls, they have thriven and propogated in great num- 

 ber, and the prediction is a safe one that in about three years 

 hence these now barren mountain streams will be plentifully 

 stocked with trout. 



"The example of this is furnished right here in Fresno County. 

 Originally there were three streams not frequented by trout, the 

 south and middle forks of the Kings, and Fish Creek, near the 

 border Hne of Madera. Due to the first fish-planting work in 

 1897, splendid trout fishing may to-day be had in Roaring River, 

 Crown Valley Creek, Pitman, Ranchiera, Tamarack, Big Creek, 

 the south fork of the San Joaquin, and a score of other smaller 

 streams as well as lakes." — Fresno Republican, May 31, 1910. 



