NATURAL HISTORY OF THE QUINNAT SALMON. 
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General investigation (luring 1898 . — The following notes give the data obtained 
by the general investigation in 1898. 
Table showing greatest number of f ry taken at one haul of the seine. 
Station. 
Apr. 28 
to 
May 4. 
May IS 
to 30. 
•T uly 8 to 
27. 
Station. 
Apr. 28 
to 
May 4. 
May 18 
to 30. 
July 8 to 
27. 
50 
66 
8 
Princeton 
15 
6 
0 
Colusa 
0 
60 
2 
4 
0 
Red Bluff 
150 
1 
0 
4 
0 
Six miles below Red 
Bluff 
6 
(1 
Twenty miles below 
0 
2 
0 
100 
31 
0 
ii 
0 
0 
1 
0 
Sacramento 
10 
6 
<1 
0 
2 
(1 
8 
0 
Rio Vista. - __ 
0 
28 
(1 
Collinsville __ 
0 
0 
10 
II 
2 
0 
10 
0 
4 
(1 
Table showing size of young salmon taken in the Sacramento River in May , 1898. 
Dates and localities. 
Size in inches. 
Aver- 
1.4 
1.5 
1.6 
1.7 
1.8 
1.9 
2.0 
2.1 
2.2 
2.3 
2.4 
2.5 
2.6 
2. 7 
2.8 
2. 9 
3.0 
3.1 
3.2 
3.3 
3.4 
3.5 
3.6 
3.7 
3.8 
3.9 
4.5 
age 
size. 
Sisson, May 15 
2 
2 
5 
2 
2 
1 
2 
4 
2 
1 
2 
3 
3 
i 
2 
1 
1 
2.4 
Sims, May 17 
2 
3 
2 
1 
2 
5 
i 
3 
2 
3 
2 
3 
1 
2 
Hazel Creek, May 17 
2 
3 
i 
4 
2 
2.0 
Redding, May 4 and 
IS 
1 
3 
1 
3 
3 
4 
2 
o 
3 
1 
3 
2 
2 
1 
2 
i 
i 
i 
2.4 
River at Battle 
Creek, April 30. .. 
Red Bluff, April 28, 
May 20.. 
1 
1 
4 
3 
4 
4 
4 
i 
2 
i 
2 
1 
1 
2.1 
2 
1 
1 
1 
4 
4 
4 
1 
i 
1 
1 
i 
2 
i 
2 
2.1 
Tehama, May 5 and 
21 
i 
3 
4 
1 
i 
i 
2 
i 
i 
9; 
i 
1 
1 
2.1 
River at Thomas 
Creek, May 22 
1 
4 
] 
•> 
1 
2 5 
River at Deer Creek, 
May 22 
i 
i 
i 
i 
1 
2 
i 
2.2 
Chico Bridge, May 
23 
1 
i 
1 
1 
i 
1 
1 
2.7 
Jacinto, May 24 
1 
i 
i 
1 
i 
1 
2 4 
Butte City, May 25 . 
i 
1 
1 
2 
2.1 
Princeton, May 25.. 
3 
1 
1 
2.6 
Colusa, May 26 . ... 
1 
i 
i 
2.4 
Grimes, May 27 
i 
1 
2 3 
Wilson farm. May 
27 
i 
i 
i 
2.3 
2.3 
Knights, May 29 . . 
i 
3 
2 
Sacramento, Apr. 23 
Rio Vista, May 11 
and 30 
2 
1 
1 
i 
3 
2 
1.9 
2.3 
2 
2 
Benicia, May 13and 
23. 
1 
1 
1 
1 
1 
1 
i 
2. 6 
2.7 
San Pablo Bay, May 
18, June 17 
2 
2 
i 
i 
i 
1 
From the tables given it will be seen that — 
1. Young salmon were abundant in the river the first of May, at least between 
Redding and Tehama. As a few were taken at Sacramento April 23, it is probable 
that they were distributed throughout the river. 
2. The last of May they were nowhere so abundant as they had been at Red 
Bluff and Tehama three weeks previously. 
3. A few were found throughout the river May 18 to 30. 
4. The fry found in the river in May had an average size of about 2.2 inches. 
5. In July there were no fry found except a few at Redding and Battle Creek. 
