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BULLETIN OF THE UNITED STATES FISH COMMISSION. 
the report of the State lish commissioner for 1881-82, the first reference to the fish is 
found, the commissioner there stating that in 1881 he again commenced hatching land- 
locked salmon. The eggs were first forwarded by the United States Fish Commission 
in December, 1882. From this consignment, consisting of 15,000 ova, 14,000 fry were 
hatched and placed in the Truckee and Carson rivers in June, 1883. In 1890, 1891, 
and 1892, 70,000 eggs were sent to the Nevada fish commissioner. No records are 
available showing the disposition made of the fry resulting from the shipment in 1890. 
The fry from the 1891 consignment were distributed as follows: Truckee Eiver, 7,000; 
Humboldt River, 5,000; Carson River, 2,500; Lake Tahoe, 2,500. The plants in 1892 
consisted of 4,500 in Truckee River, 4,000 in Humboldt River, 4,000 in Carson River, 
and 500 in Lake Tahoe. 
The published details of the results attending the planting of salmon fry in 1878 
are very meager. No reference was made to the matter in the State commissioners’ 
reports until 1884, when it was stated that the plant in 1878 had been only a partial 
success; that only a few fish had as yet been taken, and that the catch had been about 
the same as last season, of which no mention is made. The State report for the years 
1885-86 says of the landlocked salmon : 
Some small plants were made by former commissioners. The fish increased and thrived. Many 
large ones have been captured during the last and present year. 
Mr. E. W. Hunt, deputy of the California fish commission, in a report dated 
September 30, 1891, made the following reference to landlocked salmon: 
I have been making inquiries about the landlocked salmon planted in Donner and Independence 
lakes. There have been two or three caught in Independence Lake during the spring and summer, 
weighing from l\ to 3 pounds. The professional fishermen on the lake do not think that they hybrid- 
ize. They are decreasing instead of increasing. None have ever been caught in Donner Lake that 
I can hear of. 
Mr. John P. Babcock states that of the fry placed in Lake Tahoe nothing had been 
heard up to December, 1895. Mr. Babcock thinks it possible that, as they so closely 
resemble the so-called “silver-side trout” of Lake Tahoe (Salmo myTciss henshawi ), 
some of them may have been taken and not reported. He also furnishes the informa- 
tion that the fry resulting from the shipment of eggs for the Country Club in 1892 
were placed in lakes on the club’s preserve in Marin County, and several fine speci- 
mens were taken there in 1895. The club reports that the fish are doing finely. 
In Nevada the results of the introduction of landlocked salmon seem to have 
been quite marked. The following quotations from the reports of the State fish com- 
mission will be sufficient to show the general outcome: 
The landlocked salmon furnished by the United States Fish Commissioner were planted in the same 
waters with the McCloud River salmon. The plants were small, and from the large bodies of water 
to be stocked I had but little hope of reporting at so early a day as this. No attempts, other than 
ordinary angling, have been resorted to in determining their condition. Sportsmen and fishermen 
have had numerous good catches of these most desirable food-fish, and an undeniable verdict as to 
their superiority for our waters comes from every intelligent person accustomed to the habits of fish. 
They do well in the Truckee and Carson, proofs of which I have in the returns made to me by fisher- 
men this season. I await the reception of more spawn, that I may be able to introduce them into 
every stream in the State. (Rept. 1883-84, pp. 4-5.) 
Mr. H. G. Parker, while fish commissioner, made one plant in Lake Tahoe and Truckee River. 
During the past few years many of these fish, weighing from 1 pound up to 31 pounds, have been 
taken. * * * Of my 1891 plants, several, from 2 to 10 inches in length, have been seen, thus showing 
our waters are adapted to their growth. (Rept. 1891-92, p. 12.) 
