32 REPORT OF THE FISH AND GAME COMMISSION. 
The steelhead egg-collecting stations were operated to their full 
capacity both years. Snow Mountain Station produced 4,500,000 eggs 
in 1916 and 6,000,000 in 1917. The increased number of eges taken 
in 1917 was due to very favorable egg-collecting conditions, and to the 
fact that facilities had been greatly improved for handling the fish and 
‘‘eyeing’’ the eggs. Nearly all of the eggs were shipped to other 
stations to be hatched and distributed. Steelhead fry to the number 
of 184,000 and 202,000 were distributed locally in the streams tributary 
to the Eel and Russian rivers during the two years. 
The take of eggs in 1918 amounted to only 3,250,000. This small 
take of eggs was due, as at other stations, to the drought, but at this 
station conditions were much more serious than in other sections of 
the state. Not only did but very few spawning fish get up as far as the 
dam, where our station is located, but during the latter part of April, 
the water became so warm that the fish in the traps, which were being 
held for spawning purposes, could not survive, thus necessitating the 
closing of the station a month earher than usual. 
Scott Creek Ege-collecting Station was operated as in previous years, 
and the 2,000,000 and 2,250,000 eggs taken in 1916 and 1917 were 
shipped to Brookdale for ‘‘eyeing.”’ A portion of the eggs were shipped 
to other stations and the balance hatched and reared for distribution 
in Santa Clara and Santa Cruz eounties. The total number planted in 
these two counties amounted to 881,000 in 1916 and 985,000 in 1917. 
At Seott Creek Station 1,900,000 steelhead eggs were taken in the 
spring of 1918. 
Of the steelhead trout eggs shipped to other stations in the two 
years from Snow Mountain Station and Brookdale, 2,733,000 and 
2,972,000 were distributed by the distribution cars from Mount Shasta 
Hatchery ; 490,000 and 445,000 from Ukiah in the streams of Mendocino 
and Sonoma counties; and 924,000 and 1,312,000 from Fort Seward 
{atchery in the streams of Humboldt, Mendocino and Trinity counties. 
An additional 715,000 steelhead were distributed from Mount Whitney 
Hatchery in the waters of southern California in 1917. 
During the spring of 1918 most of the eggs taken at Snow Mountain 
were transported ‘‘green’’ to Ukiah Hatchery to be ‘‘eved’’ instead of 
being put into the troughs at Snow Mountain until ready for ship- 
ment. Facilities are better at Ukiah than at Snow Mountain for 
‘‘eveine’’ the eggs, and the only impediment to the “eyeing’’ of the 
exes at the former station in previous years was the lack of suitable 
transportation—Ukiah being at a considerable distance from Snow 
Mountain Station. However, during 1916 we experimented with a 
small lot of eggs by taking them by stage to Ukiah. As the results 
seemed favorable, several lots of eggs were ‘‘eyed”’ at Ukiah Hatchery 
