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W. H. Shebley and H. E. Southern examining Klamath River trout on Cottonwood Creek, near Hornbrook, Siskiyou County, California, about 1904

Identifier: californiafishga821922cali (find matches)
Title: California fish and game
Year: 1914 (1910s)
Authors: California. Dept. of Fish and Game California. Fish and Game Commission California. Division of Fish and Game
Subjects: Fisheries Game and game-birds Fishes
Publisher: (San Francisco, etc.) : State of California, Resources Agency, Dept. of Fish and Game
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries
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McCloud River. Afterexamining a number of sites, it was decided to establish a hatchery onHat Creek, with the exception of Fall River the largest tributary of thePit. Hat Creek is a large stream, carrying about 26,000 minersinches of water, and is not subject to sudden floods. The commissionhad the plans of the hatchery made after the design of the old BairdHatchery and let the work out by contract. The hatchery was a largebuilding for those days; it was constructed of good material, was 100feet long, 46 feet wide, and contained 64 hatching troughs when com-pleted. It had a capacity of 90 troughs, but all were not put in, as therun of salmon did not justify the expense. There was a completefiltering plant and the hatchery was fully equipped to care for from6,000,000 to 10,000,000 eggs. The year following its completion, Mr.J. V. Shebley took charge of the station. He began operations early inAugust, but although trapping and seining for the spawning salmon 66 CALIFORNIA FISH AND GAME.
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Fig. 33. W. H. Shebley and H. E. Southern examining Klamafh River trout onCottonwood Creek, near \Hornbrook, Siskiyou County, about 190-1, CALIFORNIA PISH AND GAME. 67 was continued until November, only 1,200,000 eggs were collected. Thespawning beds that a few years before had been covered with thousandsof spawning fish were now deserted. In 1887 W. H. Shebley wasappointed superintendent of the Hat Creek station, to succeed J. V.Shebley, who resigned from the commission to engage in private busi-ness. The take of eggs the second year was less than that of the first.Every effort was made to procure sufficient eggs to justify the commis-sions operating the plant, but only 500,000 were taken. In the spring of 1888 Superintendent W. II. Shebley recomnuiuledto the Board of Fish Commissioners and to Governor Waterman thatthe Hat Creek Hatchery be either abandoned or closed down for a num-ber of years, and that a station be established lower down the river ata place where the salmon eggs co

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