. California fish and game. Fisheries -- California; Game and game-birds -- California; Fishes -- California; Animal Population Groups; Pêches; Gibier; Poissons. Calif. Fish and Game, 57(1) : 7G-79. 1971. ANGUILLA RECORDED FROM CALIFORNIA^ JOHN E. SKINNER Colifornia Department of Fish and Game Two specimens cf the Family Anguiilidae (true eels) have been taken alive in the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta of California. The first was taken in 1964 by a local fisherman and was identified by Dr. Car! Hubbs of the Scripps Instituticn of Oceanography as Angu//;a rosirato 'Le Sueurj, The second was cap
. California fish and game. Fisheries -- California; Game and game-birds -- California; Fishes -- California; Animal Population Groups; Pêches; Gibier; Poissons. Calif. Fish and Game, 57(1) : 7G-79. 1971. ANGUILLA RECORDED FROM CALIFORNIA^ JOHN E. SKINNER Colifornia Department of Fish and Game Two specimens cf the Family Anguiilidae (true eels) have been taken alive in the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta of California. The first was taken in 1964 by a local fisherman and was identified by Dr. Car! Hubbs of the Scripps Instituticn of Oceanography as Angu//;a rosirato 'Le Sueurj, The second was captured at a State-operated fish salvage facility on January 24, 1969 and was subsequently identified by Mr. W. I. FoUett, Curator of Fishes for the California Academy of Sciences, as Anguiila anguilla 'Linnaeus). SPECIMENS TAKEN Anguilla anguilla (Linnaeus) On January 24, 1969, a European eel, Anguilla anguilla (Linnaeus), was collected during routine fish salvage operations at the State's Delta Fish Protective Facilitj^ near B}-ron, Contra Costa County, Cali- fornia. This Facility is a louver fish screen located on an extension of Italian Slough, a natural deadend tidal reach. This slough connects directly with Old Eiver and thence with the San Joaquin Eiver. which flows westward to the Pacific Ocean. The capture site is approximately 65 airline miles east of San Francisco. The fish, an adult female that initially measured 925 mm in total length, was captured at about 1900 hours at an ambient water tempera- ture of approximately 11 C. It was brought to the attention of the author b^' John Massie, an employee working at the FIGURE i. Anguilla anguiila (Linnaeus; captured January 24, 1969. The specimen under consideration was .submitted to Mr. W. I. FoUett, Curator of Fishes for the California Academy of Sciences. San Fran- cisco, who identified it as Anguilla anguilla (Linnaeus, 1758). In sup- 1 Accepted for publication October 1970. (76). Please note that these imag
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