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REPORT OF BOARD OF FISH AND GAME COMMISSIONERS. 
The following is a summary of the work: 
Total number of eggs taken__ 438,890 
Total number of eggs eyed_373,000 
Loss in hatching and rearing_:- 24,000 
Fry distributed— 
Price Creek _ 168,500 
Howe Creek_174,500 
Williams Creek _ 6,000 
Total _ 349,000 
Number of fish caught— 
Males- 80 
Females_ 107 
Number of females spawned-_ 94 
Average weight of fish— 
Males _ 6 pounds 
Females _11 pounds 
Highest temperature of water_63 degrees 
Lowest temperature of water_41 degrees 
In conjunction with the work of taking steelhead eggs this season, I 
have replaced the shake roof on the hatchery with corrugated galvanized 
iron, as the old roof was in a very shaky condition. This will be a great 
improvement. I have also built a new settling tank, and replaced the 
old auxiliary flume with a new one built of redwood. These improve¬ 
ments were much needed ones and have added to the efficiency of the 
station very much. 
Yours very respectfully, W. 0. FASSETT. 
Grizzly Bluff, June 11, 1910. 
To the Honorable the Board of Fish and Game Commissioners. 
Gentlemen : The following is my report for the season of 1910 on 
the steelhead work at Eel River Station: 
The fish made their first appearance on February 21st, and prospects 
looked very favorable for a good average take, but lack of water in 
Price Creek at the time the fish were running caused the main body of 
the fish to spawn in the river, with the result that my take was very 
disappointing. However, the 200,000 eggs sent me from the Ukiah 
Station swelled my total to respectable proportions, and enabled me to 
distribute a nice lot of fish in this vicinity. The run of females was 
much larger than the males, and at the end of the season a number of 
the females had to be released owing to the lack of males. 
The eggs received from Ukiah have provided some interesting data, 
and thinking it may be of interest I am including it in my report. The 
eggs were taken by Mr. La Motte on the 11th day of April and were 
received by me on the 28th of the same month. Upon being placed in 
the water several hundred hatched, although they were only seventeen 
days old. I placed all these alevins by themselves in a separate trough, 
and preserved specimens of them, and also of the others which hatched 
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