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Title: California fish and game
Year: 1914 (1910s)
Authors: California. Dept. of Fish and Game
Subjects: Fisheries Fishes Game and game-birds
Publisher: Sacramento (etc.) California Dept. of Fish and Game
Contributing Library: Gerstein - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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dentrout, Sahno roosevelti. This fish is known to excel any other speciesof trout in beauty, not only because of its well-proportioned form,but more particularly because of its exceptionally brilliant and richcoloration. There are three recognized species of golden trout: the Little Kerngolden trout, Sahno whitei; South Fork of the Kern golden trout,Salnn agua-honita, and Roosevelt trout, of Volcano Creek, Salmoroosevelti. The Kern trout, Salmo gilherti, is the parent species fromwhich the three, afore named, were probably derived; and, so far as is 142 CALIFORNIA FISH AND GAME. known, all four species are native to the head waters of the KernRiver. The distinctive characteristics of these diversified types is morereadily appreciated if the geographical isolation of their habitat isunderstood. It has been stated that the Kern trout. Sahno gilherti,is the parent species of the golden trout, and as may lie inferred fromthe name, is native to the Kern River. This river is of considerable
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Fig. 37. Agua-bonita Fall.s on Aolcano Creek. _.- -:: am whichis the original home of the golden trout. Photograph by W. Y.Kellogg. width and flows through a most inspiring, deep, rugged, high Sierrancanyon, and in ages past, when the glacial period wrought its stupen-dous changes, the Kern River trout, native then to not only the KernRiver but to its tributory streams—Volcano Creek, South Fork of theKern and the Little Kern and Soda Creek—became isolated in thesedifferent streams by the formation of unsurmountable barriers, andeach group being acted upon by the influences of its own peculiarenvironment, with no opportunity for interbreeding of groups, resulted, CALIFORNIA PISH AND GAME. 143 quite naturally, in each one developing in its own distinctive, character-istic way.* And the golden trout, vSa/zxo rooseveiti, of Volcano Creek,the most radiantly beautiful of them all, became the most individual. But the changes which Volcano Creek underwent were far moreenduring and much mo

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