ACCLIMATIZATION OF FISH IN THE PACIFIC STATES. 
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fish commissioner, in his report for 1881 and 1882, speaks of having hatched brook 
trout, but no details are given and no mention of the subject is made in his two 
preceding reports, going back as far as 1877, implying the carrying on of private 
fish-cultural work before the formation of a State fish commission. In 1883 a reservoir 
of the Virginia and Gold Hill Water Company yielded 250,000 eggs of the brook trout, 
which, when hatched, were distributed to the Carson, Walker, Truckee, and Humboldt 
rivers, each receiving 40,000 fry. About 3,000 fry were also placed in Washoe Lake. 
In 1885 or 1886, 50,000 eggs were taken from the same reservoir, but the details of 
the distribution are not recorded. In 1887, 500,000 eggs were obtained from fish caught 
in Marlette Lake, and in 1888 the same number was taken in that water. The combina- 
tion of the resulting fry with the young of the native trout of Lake Tahoe in the 
distribution tables published by the State commissioner makes it impossible to record 
the waters in which plants were made. Large numbers of fry were deposited in 1889 
and 1890, but no details are available. 
The planting of fry by the Nevada commission was continued in 1891 and 1892. 
In the former year 545,000 fish were allotted to private waters or public streams, the 
Truckee, Carson, and Humboldt rivers receiving 410,000 fry. In the latter year the 
plants aggregated 362,800 fry, of which 220,000 were placed in the rivers named and 
65,000 in Lake Tahoe. In 1893 the State distributed 430,000 brook trout, the plants 
being mostly in the Truckee, Carson, and Humboldt rivers and Lake Tahoe. The eggs 
were taken from fish that had been introduced. 
Plants of yearling brook trout were made in Oregon and Washington by the 
LTnited States Pish Commission in the fall of 1894. Sixteen hundred fish were equally 
apportioned to the South Fork of the Umatilla River, near Gibbon, Greg., and to a 
tributary of Dead Point Stream, near Hood River Station, Oreg. The fish put in 
Washington waters consisted of 375 yearlings in Twin Lake, 750 in Mountain Lake, 
750 in Kelly Lake, 750 in Hooker Lake, 1,150 in Cranberry Lake, 1,150 in Johns Lake, 
and 51 in Washington Lake — a total of 4,976. All of these fish were reared at the 
Fish Commission station at Leadville, Colo. 
STATUS OF THE BROOK TROUT IN THE PACIFIC STATES. 
While detailed information is wanting regarding the outcome of the attempts to 
colonize the brook trout in this region, and while the results of plants in many places 
are unknown to the writer, enough has been recorded in the State reports and elsewhere 
to show that the fish has become adapted to numerous waters, where it has spawned 
and now constitutes a permanent addition to the list of game fishes of the section. As 
early as 1880 the results of brook-trout planting in California had become noteworthy. 
In the report of the California fish commission for that year it is recorded that — 
The South Yuba aud the North Fork of the American rivers, which originally contained no fish 
above the high falls on each stream, are now well stocked with trout. We have also stocked other 
streams, which naturally contained no fish, or from which all the fish had been caught. 
In the report of Mr. J. G. Woodbury, superintendent of hatcheries, published in 
the report of the California fish commission for 1889-90, the following references are 
made to the results of planting eastern brook trout in 1875, 1877, 1878, and 1879. 
After mentioning the waters stocked, he says: 
In all these short coast streams, which become warmer and diminish in volume as the summer 
advances, they have not reproduced themselves — at least I can not learn that they have been caught 
for a number of years past; but in all the high Sierra streams where these trout were planted they 
