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during 1917, and the results obtained were entirely satisfactory. It 
having been demonstrated that the long trip between the stations would 
not be injurious to the eggs, it only remained to make some arrange- 
ment for having a conveyance to leave with the eggs immediately after 
spawning operations had been completed, as delays in transporting 
them would be dangerous. This difficulty was solved by transferring 
Ford auto truck No. 3 to Snow Mountain and using it for the pur- 
pose. We, therefore, did most of the ‘‘eyeing’’ at Ukiah this season. 
The water is excellent and facilities better for handling the eggs, and 
the results obtained under the new arrangements are much better than 
.when the eggs were all ‘‘eyed’’ at Snow Mountain. 
The operation of Fort Seward Hatchery during the past two years 
has been carried out, as originally planned at the time the station was 
built. Rainbow and steelhead trout eggs have been shipped to the 
station each spring, and the resulting fry have been given a wide dis- 
tribution in the streams of Humboldt County, the western part of 
Trinity County, and a portion of Mendocino County. One shipment of 
fish was also made to Del Norte County in 1917. The stocking of 
tributaries of the Eel River has been given particular attention; a large 
portion of the 2,500,000 fry distributed from the hatchery during the 
two years being planted therein. 
Eastern Brook Trout. 
The Marlette-Carson Hatchery was operated during the seasons of 
1916 and 1917. In 1916, 55,000 Eastern brook trout fry were planted 
in Marlette Lake. In addition to this number, 50,000 eggs were shipped 
to Tallac Hatchery and the resulting fry distributed in the Tahoe 
region ; 527,000 Eastern brook eggs were also shipped to Mount Shasta 
Hatchery, and the fry distributed in waters throughout the ‘state. In 
1917 the Marlette-Carson Hatchery was operated by this commission 
under agreement with the Nevada Fish Commission, providing that one- 
half of the eggs taken were to be turned over to the state of Nevada. 
Our share of the eggs amounted to 200,000, and this number was 
shipped to Mount Shasta Hatchery. 
Eastern brook trout fry were distributed from Mount Shasta Hatch- 
ery to the number of 1,963,000 in 1916, and 1,617,000 in 1917. In 1916 
the pond fish at the Mount Shasta Hatchery produced 1,500,000. One 
hundred thousand eggs were obtained from the New Jersey Fish and 
Game Commission in exchange for a like number of Loch Leven trout 
eggs, and 527,000 eggs came from the Marlette-Carson Hatchery. In 
1917, 1,450,000 eggs of this species were taken from the pond fish, 
200,000° were received from Marlette-Carson Hatchery, and 200,000 
were purchased in Colorado. 
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