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REPORT OF BOARD OF FISH AND GAME COMMISSIONERS. 
The collections for this season were 2,182,000 steelhead eggs, of 
which 320,000 were sent to Sisson, the fry from which are used to stock 
coastwise streams in Santa Barbara, San Luis Obispo, and Ventura 
counties; about 200,000 were sent to the Marin County Hatchery, and 
100,000 shipped to the United States Bureau of Fisheries Station at 
Oregon City, Oregon; the remainder, except 200,000 hatched at Spawn¬ 
ing Station and returned to Scott Creek, were hatched in the Brookdale 
Hatchery, which, together with the salmon eggs collected, made a grand 
total of 3,582,000 eggs of all kinds. Three fourths of the fry were 
distributed in the waters of Santa Cruz County; the balance were dis¬ 
tributed between the counties of San Mateo, Santa Clara, and Monterey. 
The proportion of the total operating expenses borne by the State 
approximates two thirds, which is paid out of the fish and game preser¬ 
vation fund. 
We beg to express our appreciation of the never-failing courtesy of 
the county board of supervisors, especially of Mr. Ralph S. Miller, who 
acted as a committee of one on matters pertaining to the hatchery; and 
in all matters pertaining to the advancement of the fish and game inter¬ 
ests we have had the cordial cooperation of Mr. Miller. 
Mr. Shebley has carried on successfully some very interesting work 
in the line of hybridization, and succeeded in establishing a cross 
between the female steelhead trout of the coast streams and the male 
Lake Tahoe trout—a fish that we believe will prove of inestimable value 
to the waters of Lake Tahoe, Independence, Webber, and Donner lakes, 
as this cross seems to produce a fish retaining all the fine food qualities 
of the trout of the mountain lakes, combined with the well known 
gamy qualities of the steelhead. 
Some important scientific work has been carried on for the past two 
years by Dr. C. H. Gilbert of Stanford University in the interest of the 
United States Bureau of Fisheries, in which he was assisted by our Mr. 
C. A. Reed. 
EASTERN BROOK TROUT. 
As will be seen by comparison with the reports of 1900 onJy 6,000 fry 
of this variety were turned out by our hatcheries in that year. The 
output for the past three years has been in excess of one million per 
year. These fish have shown remarkable adaptability to small lakes and 
meadow streams of the high Sierras. In order to satisfy the demands 
we have made some plants in considerable numbers in Coast Range 
streams, but no appreciable results have been manifest; on the other 
hand, at all elevations above three thousand feet and up to eight and 
nine thousand splendid results have followed, which the people in the 
mountains are not slow to realize; consequently there is an increasing 
demand, and as new lines of transportation have enabled us to reach 
