Identifier: appendixtojourna19051cali (find matches)
Title: Appendix to the Journals of the Senate and Assembly of the ... session of the Legislature of the State of California
Year: 1853 (1850s)
Authors: California. Legislature
Subjects: Legislative journals
Publisher: Sacramento : State Printing
Contributing Library: San Francisco Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: San Francisco Public Library

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nd probably some ofthe young salmon were carried into the tule basins and there perished when the waterreceded. Of this I have no knowledge, but it appears to be a natural conclusion that acertain percentage of them would be carried with the current through the breaks in thelevees. The output of fish from the Sisson hatchery for the two years Ijeginning September1, 1902, and ending August 31, 1904, is as follows: Season I90S.Salmon eggs received from Baird, Battle Creek, and Mill CreekStations, U. S. Bureau of Fisheries, during summer andfall run of 1902, and hatched and distributed from the Sis-son hatchery 14,782,540 Eastern brook-trout fry 415,000 Rainbow trout fry 502,000 Cutthroat trout (Salwo henshawi) 752,000 Sunfish , 1,356 16,452,896Season 1904.Salmon eggs 58,432,000 Rainbow trout fry 500,000 Eastern brook-trout fry 682,000 Cutthroat trout (Salmo henshawl) trout fry 90,000 Loch Leven trout fry 29,000 Landlocked salmon fry .. 7,tXX) 59,740,000Making a grand total of 76,192,896
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2(i REPORT OF 8TATE BOARD OF FISH COMMISSIONERS. The last two years have been busy ones at this station, especially the year just closed,when there was expended on these grounds the $10,CX)0 appropriated at the last sessionof the Legislature. All of the work and improvements were absolutely necessary.The help came when it was most needed. In efficiency and capacity we have gained atleast six years. All of the improvements are of a durable and permanent character.We now have eighteen trout-rearing ponds and eleven nurseries. While they requireconsiderable labor to keep them clean and in such order that the fish will thrive, theyhave been provided with drains so that one pond can be emptied at a time, affordingbetter opportunities for sorting the fry, which important work must be done system-atically and by skilled hands, in order that no injury will be done the fish. I find thatafter the first six months the young fish should be sorted every sixty days, owingto unequal development. The

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