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BULLETIN OF THE UNITED STATES FISH COMMISSION. 
THE EASTERN BROOK TROUT. 
PLANTING OF BROOK TROUT IN PACIFIC STATES. 
Extensive attempts to acclimatize the eastern brook trout ( Salvelinus fontinalis ) 
have been made in several of the States of the Pacific Slope. The first plants, made 
more than twenty years ago, have been supplemented in recent years, and the fish has 
been given a wide distribution, especially in California and Nevada. 
As early as 1872 the California fish commission began their efforts to introduce 
this favorite game fish into the State waters, and purchased 6,000 young fish for that 
purpose. The plants were made in three equal installments — in the North Fork of 
the American River, in the headwaters of Alameda Creek, and in the San Andreas 
reservoir near San Francisco. 
In 1875 the California fish commission purchased 60,000 brook-trout eggs in New 
Hampshire and hatched them at Berkeley, with a loss of 1 per cent. The fry were 
distributed in public waters of the State, about 20,000 being placed in lakes and 
streams in Mendocino, Sonoma, Napa, and Yolo counties; 20,000 in Calaveras Creek 
(in Alameda and Santa Clara counties) and other streams tributary to San Francisco 
Bay; 10,000 in Prosser Creek, Nevada County, and 10,000 in the North Fork of 
the American River, in Placer County. In January, 1877, 133,000 additional eggs 
were obtained by purchase in the East. The young fish resulting from these eggs were 
planted in suitable waters in Siskiyou, Contra Costa, Alameda, Placer, Nevada, Santa 
Cruz, San Mateo, Monterey, Los Angeles, San Diego, Yuba, and Santa Clara counties. 
New Hampshire and Wisconsin furnished eggs in 1878 and 1879 to the number of 
70,000. The fry resulting from these were extensively distributed, the North Fork of 
the American River and the Truckee River receiving the largest plants. In 1880 
41,500 fry were distributed. From that time up to 1890 the reports of the California 
commission do not show any brook trout handled. In the latter year, however, 100,000 
eggs were purchased in New Hampshire, and 83,000 fry were produced and distributed 
in tributaries of the Sacramento and Klamath rivers. In the same year the North 
Pacific Game and Fish Club privately planted 25,000 young trout in Robinson Creek. 
The most extensive brook-trout propagation by the California authorities was 
carried on in 1892, when 317,000 fry were distributed, the eggs being taken in Marlette 
Lake, Nevada, where the fish had been acclimatized. The following year 251,000 fry 
were hatched from eggs obtained in Nevada, and in 1894 266,000 more fry were 
planted under the same conditions. 
The aggregate deposits by the State commission numbered 1,228,000 fry, which 
were placed in nearly every county having suitable waters. For detailed statements 
of the waters stocked, the reports of the California fish commission should be con- 
sulted. 
In May, 1893, the United States Fish Commission made plants of young brook trout 
in California, as follows: 50 yearlings in Three Creeks, near Hoopa Yalley; 215 year- 
lings in Redwood Creek, at Berry’s Crossing, and 5,900 yearlings in Supply Mill and 
Fish Tang creeks, Hoopa Yalley. These fish resulted irom a lot of 20,000 eggs from 
New York, which were hatched and reared at Fort Gaston (Cal.) station of the United 
States Fish Commission. 
The brook trout appears to have been successfully introduced into Nevada waters 
at a comparatively early date, but a history of the matter is not at hand. The Nevada 
