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of Taylor Creek to facilitate the seining. March 27th commenced 
operations with seine and continued until May 8th, with grand success. 
The present season has been the banner season in egg-collecting on Lake 
Tahoe in the history of the California Fish and Game Commission, as 
the following results will show: Number of fish caught, 7,250 (males, 
2,981; females, 4,342) ; males averaging nearly 2 pounds and females 
1J pounds. Number of females spawned 4,194, they averaging about 
1,500 eggs to the fish. Total number of eggs taken 6,130,000, of which 
1,680,000 were shipped to the following State hatcheries: Sisson, 
100,000; Wawona, 250,000; Ukiah, 400,000; Marin County, 100,000, 
and 830,000 exchanged with Morrill and Denton of Verdi, Nev., for 
Eastern brook trout fingerlings. 
Our best spawning day was on May 7th, when we collected 965,000 
eggs. We had several days during our spawn collecting seasons that 
over half million eggs were taken. The number of eggs hatched at the 
Tahoe stations this season will be about 4,000,000, distributed and 
hatched as follows: Tallac Hatchery, 2,250,000; Tahoe Hatchery, 
1,050,000; Glen Alpine, 700,000; have been distributing fry from the 
Tallac and Glen Alpine stations for the past week to relieve the crowded 
condition of the troughs. The work of distribution at all the stations 
will be taken up in the near future and continued until all of the fry 
are planted. 
Would respectfully recommend at this time that the Tahoe Hatchery 
have a new floor, head box and set of troughs; also that the water supply 
be placed in first-class shape and an iron pipe installed to convey same 
from the springs to the building. This work can be done at the end of 
the coming season. 
Respectfully submitted. 
Tahoe City. 
E. W. HUNT, 
Superintendent. 
REPORT OF SUPERINTENDENT OF EEL RIVER HATCHERY* 
Grizzly Bluff, July 13, 1909. 
To the Honorable the Board of Fish and Game Commissioners. 
Gentlemen : The following is my report of the steelhead work for 
the season of 1909. The fish started running earlier this season than 
usual, making their first appearance in Price Creek on February 16th. 
The run continued until April 23d. The season was a very satisfactory 
one, and I took 438,800 eggs. The fry were distributed in Howe, Price, 
and Williams creeks. 
7 —FC 
