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BULLETIN OF THE UNITED STATES FISH COMMISSION. 
THE WHITEFISH. 
In 1872 and 1873 Professor Baird, the United States Fisli Commissioner, sent to 
the California fish commission from Lake Superior 50,000 eggs of the common white- 
fish ( Coregonus clupeiformis ) in two lots; many of these perished during transportation. 
The survivors (25,000 in number) were hatched iu an extemporized structure on Clear 
Lake, in which the young were placed. Clear Lake is a large body of water in Lake 
county, in the Coast Range, about 80 miles northwest of Sacramento, and was selected 
for this purpose by the California authorities because of the supposed advantages it 
afforded, it containing few other fish, having a suitable temperature and other physical 
conditions, and being so placed that it could be readily seined. 
In 1875 the United States Fish Commission sent 20,000 whitefish eggs from Lake 
Michigan; these were successfully hatched at Berkeley and deposited in Tulare Lake 
on March 29, 1875. This lake, the largest in the State, was thought by the California 
commissioners to have the requisite temperature, food supply, etc., for the whitefish, and 
the introduction of that species was much desired by the people living near the lake. 
Larger plants were made in various parts of the State in 1877 and 1879, the eggs 
being furnished by tbe national fish commission. In 1877, 75,000 fry were put iu 
Donner Lake, in Nevada County; 50,000 in Sereno and other lakes, in Placer County, 
and 175,000 in Lake Tahoe, in the extreme eastern part of the State, partly in Nevada. 
In 1879, fry were planted as follows: 70,000 in Lake Tahoe; 70,000 in Donner Lake; 
00,000 in lakes in Nevada County; 225,000 in Eagle Lake, iu Lassen County; 100,000 
in Tulare Lake; 10,000 in Mark West Creek, in Sonoma County; 10,000 in San Jose 
Water Company’s reservoir, in Santa Clara County; and 20,000 in Chabot Lake, in 
Alameda County. 
In January, 1883, the United States Fish Commission delivered 500,000 eggs at 
the hatchery of the California commission at San Leandro. No record of the results 
of this consignment has been met with. 
Whitefish fry were introduced into a number of Oregon lakes in January and 
February, 1889, by the United States Fish Commission. The largest deposit, number- 
ing 400,000, was made in Klamath Lake, near Linkville, at the southern end of the 
lake. About 100,000 fry were placed iu Kullaby Lake, near Astoria; 75,000 in Chetaw 
Lake, in Wasco County; and 10,000 in Laddis Lake, in Multnomah County. 
The plants of whitefish in Washington have consisted of 375,000 fry placed in 
Washington Lake at Seattle; 300,000 in Lacamas Lake, in Clarke County; and 10,000 
in Silver Lake, at Castle Rock. These deposits were made by the United States Fish 
Commission in February, 1889. 
Iu Cceur d’Alene Lake and Pend d’Oreille Lake, in Idaho, in the basin of the 
upper Columbia River, very large deposits of fry were made by the United States 
Fish Commission in February, 1889. In the former lake 1,930,000, and in the latter 
1,300,000, young whitefish were planted. Ilayden Lake, a small body of water north 
of Lake Cceur d’Alene, received 20,000 fry at the same time. 
The results attending the introduction of whitefish into California waters have 
been extremely meager, if not altogether negative. While it is possible that the fish 
have in certain waters been overlooked, owing to the nonprosecution of commercial 
fisheries and the absence of scientific investigation, it is known that they have not 
attained economic importance anywhere in the State and have never been taken, in 
recent years, in some of the waters in which they were planted. 
