Identifier: bulletinofbureau251905unit (find matches)
Title: Bulletin of the Bureau of Fisheries
Year: 1904 (1900s)
Authors: United States. Bureau of Fisheries
Subjects: Fisheries Fish culture
Publisher: Washington, D.C. : Govt. Print. Off.
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any other fish. Some of these barrenwaters, however, have been stocked by private individuals, fish and game clubs, or)>y the state and federal governments. KAWEAH RIVER. Kings. Kaweah, and Kern are the three great rivers of the southern High Sierras,whicii together constitute the headwaters of tho San Joaquin. The Kings and theKern liavi their principal hcadwutcis among the high mountains north of MountMhitney, Kings flowing westward and the Kern almost directly south. In the rightangle between these two rivers and approximately bisecting it is the Kaweah, flowingsouthwest. All of these rivers finally reach that great area of low tule land in theupper (southern) end of the San Joaciuin Valley, of which Tulare Lake is the center.As a result of various agencies, chief of wliich are the extensive irrigation operationsnow carried on in this portion of the San Joaquin Valley, only a relatively small pro-portion of the water which these rivers bring down from the mountains cvei reaches
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THE GOLDEN TROUT. 5 Tulare Lake or the tide land about it, and most of the latter is now und(>r cultivationand the lake has practically disappeared. Midilh Fork of hliireah Elver.—The Middle Fork of Kaweah River was exam-ined at various )ilaces fi-om the mouth of the South Fork to a point above the powerhouse, some 10 mile.s up the stream. In this portion of it.s course the Middle Forkis a large, swiftly flowing stream, with an occasional deep, quiet pool, but ordinariljwith a strong current and a depth of 8 to 10 feet or more. The bed rock is ofgranite, which in man,y places is bare. Many large boulders also occur in the stream.There are some rapids and an occasional small fall, at the foot of which are deep poolsin which trout delight to loiter. The water is clear, pure, and fairly cold, the maxi-mum temperature in July being about 65^ Fahrenheit. Trout were formerly notluicommon in this river, even down to Threerivers and below, but now they arerarely seen below the mouth of t

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