Sustained yield in fish & redwood

Fifty thousand fingerling steelhead fish are swimming peacefully in a new rearing pond built by The Pacific Lumber Co., the giant redwood producer, on its forest land at Yager Creek in Northern California. A second pond will take another 50,000 flsh.

The fingerlings are brought from a California Department of Fish & Game hatchery and are fed as many as four times a day by a Pacific Lumber employee. Food consists of pellets of junk fish, soybean meal, corn meal, and vitamin and mineral supplements. Water piped in from a nearby creek is a stimulting 590.

When mature, the fish will be released at several locations in the Van Duzen river drainage area.

Since 1973 Pacific has been raising steelhead and salmon in a pond at Scotia, Ca., the company's lumber and plywood manufacturing site. Steelhead grown recently at Scotia were released at an average size of 12"*15" into the Eel River which flows bv Scotia.