. California fish and game. Fisheries -- California; Game and game-birds -- California; Fishes -- California; Animal Population Groups; Pêches; Gibier; Poissons. TWENTY-SEVENTH BIENNIAL REPORT. 51 place more troughs in the hatchery. A cabin will be built for the accom- modation of the help. This station can be improved so that several hundred thousand more esffs can be collected aunuallv. JOHNSVILLE EXPERIMENTAL HATCHERY. This station was established during- the spring of 1921. It is situated on Jamison Creek, a tributary of the ^Middle Fork of the Feather Eiver, seven miles from Blairsden on
. California fish and game. Fisheries -- California; Game and game-birds -- California; Fishes -- California; Animal Population Groups; Pêches; Gibier; Poissons. TWENTY-SEVENTH BIENNIAL REPORT. 51 place more troughs in the hatchery. A cabin will be built for the accom- modation of the help. This station can be improved so that several hundred thousand more esffs can be collected aunuallv. JOHNSVILLE EXPERIMENTAL HATCHERY. This station was established during- the spring of 1921. It is situated on Jamison Creek, a tributary of the ^Middle Fork of the Feather Eiver, seven miles from Blairsden on the line of the Western I'aeilic Railroad and two miles from the mining town of Johnsville. The site was selected on the propertj^ of the Plumas-Eureka ^Mining Company in a narrow valley lying between Eureka Peak and Blount Washington. The oljject was to establish a hatchery in this region to furnish tlsh for the South Fork of the Feather River, the ^Middle Fork of the Feather and their tributaries, South Fork of Yuba River and tributaries and the lakes in the Gold Lake region, as well as other streams along the line of. Fig 15. Rack at Camp Creek, a tril)utary of the Klamath River. April 12. 1922. The Camp Creek Egg Collecting Station furnishes many ;(1s nf iMiiihinv trout eggs annually. the Western Pacific Railroad. Tlir hatching troughs, forty in niiinbcr were placed in a tent and a temporary tank and Hume foi- fiw water .supply This work was done under great difficulties owing to the depth of the snow. There were ( rainbow tront fry ami 111,000 steelhead trout fry distributed from this station. Tlii> rainbow fry did not thrive during the early part of the TUry were affected with a fungoid disease prol)ably brought to the hatch.'ry with some shipment of eggs. There was considerable loss among the fry for a time; but as the season advanced the fry inii>iov((l and wi'i-.' |)IaMtcd in good order. During the spring of 1922, when our
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