Hatcheries Work

BEAR SHOT WHILE ROBBING FISH TRAPS. – Bullet From James Sanderson’s Rifle Ended Bruin’s Career. – Guardian On Watch For Thief.

            Acting on report of trout hatchery officials, James Sanderson, fisheries guardian, by keeping close watch on a bear which robbed the Rod and Gun Club trout traps on Fish Creek, bagged the animal last week just as Bruin made a second raid on the traps.  The bear was of the black variety, and although quite old was in fairly good peltage.  Last year, it would be remembered, Mr. Sanderson killed a black bear at the traps at Munroe Lake.

                            1,200,000 Eggs In Hatchery

            With trapping of trout for their spawn at Munroe and Mineral Lakes discontinued for the season the outside work of the hatchery men is nearing an end, with exception of Peavine Creek, where a number of green fish are being held in the traps.  Eggs in process of incubation in the hatchery number approximately 1,200,000.  It is not expected that the season’s catch will equal the take of last year, when 1,500,000 cutthroat eggs were successfully incubated.  With spawning fish running less freely than last week it is now improbable that the season’s catch will exceed 1,300,000.

                        No Local Kamloops

            So far as local Kamloops trout eggs are concerned, the idea of taking spawning parent fish of that species locally has been abandoned for lack of a proper net.  Through an error of the fisheries department, a gill net was forwarded to the club instead of a seine requisitioned by club officials.  The seine was to be employed in taking parent Kamloops trout from Premier and Horseshoe Lakes.  The usual allotments of the Kamloops trout eggs will be from hatcheries in the east later in the summer, however.

                        Distributing Cutthroat

            The first distribution of locally hatched cutthroat trout eggs will be made within a day or two when several thousand in the eyed stage will be planted by C.H. Robinson, fisheries overseer, Nelson, who was in the city yesterday.  The eggs will be placed above the falls on Phillips Creek, near Roosville, in the Fernie district.  Other distributions will be made locally as fast as the eggs reach the eyed stage.