ACCLIMATIZATION OF FISH IN THE PACIFIC STATES. 
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The plants aggregated 2,651,000, of which 953,000 were deposited in 1884, 848,000 
in 1885, and 850,000 in 1886. These fish were all planted at The Needles, in Arizona. 
These experiments were considered sufficiently extensive to test the adaptability of 
the river, and no farther plants were contemplated. 
It was expected that by 1887 or 1888 the results of the experiment would be 
known. Information has never reached the Commission, however, that adult shad 
have been taken in any of the tributaries of the Gulf of California, although, in the 
absence of special efforts with suitable apparatus, the outcome of the experiment 
should not necessarily, for the present, be regarded as a failure. 
SHAD PLANTED IN UTAH AND IDAHO. 
In 1873, while en route to California with a consignment of young shad, Mr. 
Livingston Stone left 5,000 fry at Ogden, to be placed in Great Salt Lake basin. The 
fish were deposited in the Jorclau River, a few miles above its outlet in Great Salt 
Lake. In 1887, 984,000 more young shad were placed in the Jordan River. A 
plant of 1,925,000 fry was made in Utah Lake in the next year. Deposits aggregating 
2,265,450 flsli were made in the Weber River at Ogden, Bear River at Montpelier, 
Idaho, and Bear Lake, Utah and Idaho, in 1891. In 1892, 1,998,000 fry were placed 
in the Bear River at Cache Junction, Utah. 
GENERAL RESULTS IN CALIFORNIA, OREGON, WASHINGTON, AND UTAH. 
In order to insure protection to the shad in the event of the survival of the fry 
and the return of the mature fish, the California legislature enacted a law prohibiting, 
under a heavy penalty, the taking of shad prior to the year 1877. The existence of 
this law, which was of course entirely proper, made it difficult, if not impossible, to 
determine with satisfactory accuracy just when the results of the experiment were 
first manifested. From what can now be learned, mature shad first appeared in the 
waters of California in 1873. It appears that May 10, 1873, the California fish commis- 
sioners paid $50 as a reward for the first shad taken, and in their report of 1872-73 they 
state that while grown shad were not due in the rivers until 1874, they had, neverthe- 
less, had three specimens in their hands and had heard of the capture of two others. 
In a letter to Professor Baird, dated April 30, 1874 (published in Forest and 
Stream May 21, 1874), Mr. S. R. Throckmorton stated: 
The first shad taken on this coast, as verified by my own observation, was caught in a trap in 
Linsoou Bay, a branch of the harbor of San Francisco, about the 1st day of April, 1873. 1 purchased 
the fish and placed it in alcohol and presented it to the Academy of Sciences of the State of California. 
It is a male fish, l year 9 months and 20 days old, is 17 inches in length, and 3 pounds in weight. Two 
other shad were taken in the same locality during the summer of 1873 — male lish and smaller in size. 
In 1874 and 1875 sixteen full-grown shad were reported to have been taken at 
Vallejo and in the Sacramento River; the fish commissioners also learned of others 
taken in the same years. 
The increase of shad in the waters of California has been uninterrupted and rapid 
since the first capture of the grown fish. The following important references to the 
appearance of shad in the Sacramento River and elsewhere in 1877 are from the report 
of the California fish commission for 1876-77 : 
Shad, in their season, are becoming quite numerous in the Sacramento River. The experiment 
of their importation to this coast has resulted satisfactorily. The river is of proper temperature and 
furnishes an abundance of food for young fish before they go to the ocean. There can be no doubt 
