Title: California fish and game
Identifier: californiafishgabien19561958cali (find matches)
Year: [1] (s)
Authors: California. Dept. of Fish and Game; California. Fish and Game Commission; California. Division of Fish and Game
Subjects: Fisheries -- California; Game and game-birds -- California; Fishes -- California; Animal Population Groups; Pêches; Gibier; Poissons
Publisher: (San Francisco, etc. ) State of California, Resources Agency, Dept. of Fish and Game
Contributing Library: California Department of Fish and Game
Digitizing Sponsor: Internet Archive

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Inland Fisheries
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Caitle Lake, Siskiyou County, with Mt. Shasta in the background. The department has conducted angler use studies on this lake. —Fish and Game Photo by Joe Wales Highlighting inland fisheries developments were in- creased hatchery production at reduced costs, elimina- tion of commercial fishing from the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta, establishment of a silver salmon run in the Sacramento River, proof of the threadfin shad's value as a forage fish, and many new waters opened to public fishing. All but the commercial fishing and silver salmon (see Salmon and Steelhead section) are detailed in this portion of the biennial report. Water utilization projects continued to require a great deal of investigational work to protect existing fisheries threatened by alteration of habitat, as well as to provide fishing in the new habitat resulting from these projects. Listed in Table 30 are some of the major new reservoirs first opened to public fishing during the biennium. By far the largest, and perhaps most im- portant, of these is 19,600-acre Berryessa Reservoir created by the Monticello Dam on Putah Creek. This large reservoir was stocked with smallmouth bass, largemouth bass, redear sunfish, and white catfish dur- ing 1957. By the spring of 1958, excellent fishing was being enjoyed by thousands of anglers. If this fishery follows the pattern of other reservoirs of this type, it will remain good for several years and then decline. Learning how to maintain the excellent fishing that exists for the first few years in most large warmwater reservoirs is one of the department's most challenging problems. Existing and proposed new reservoirs have a tre- mendous angling potential. These reservoirs fall into a number of diverse categories, some of which are: (1) Coldwater regulating reservoirs such as those formed by Keswick and Nimbus Dams. (2) Warmwater reservoirs such as Lake Havasu. (3) Large, primarily warmwater, fluctuating reser- voirs such as Folsom, Shasta, and iVIillerton Lakes. (4) Coldwater reservoirs such as Edison and Hun- tington Lake. (5) Waters that provide habitat for both trout and warmwater fishes, such as Lake Hennessey, Big Bear Lake, and Isabella Lake. Each category, and often each reservoir, presents unique management problems. How to produce the maximum amount of fishing in these reservoirs will require all-out effort by fisheries research and man- agement personnel in future years. :45)

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