April 29, 1970 (12 pages)

8 the Nevada County Nugget, Wednesday, April 29, 1970 JONI REED Joni Reed tells THE GOON. The channel catfish, becoming more popular in. California fishing. And good eating. At right is the bad. The walking catfish kills native fish, It has been taken from northern California waters. Effective November 15, by revert to the more normal order of California's Fish and slate-grey mottled brown or . Game Commission, it became black, unlawful to possess, import, The banned fish are easily candidacy for administrator Joni Reed today issued a state transport or release into the identified by their flattened Catfish is becoming an ever _ DFG biologists say that fishwild any of the four members heads. with eight barbels, or ment concerning her candidacy — more popular sport for the ermen who think they have of the fish family, Claridae, "feelers", and their continuous for public administrator of California angler, and the Decaught blue catfish in California which includes walking catfish. fins which extend top and botNevada county: When several of my friends partment of Fish and Game is were probably misled by the sotom along the rear two-thirds of approached me with the idea of Vicious in. their attacks on their bodies, planning a catfish jackpot in the called blue phase of the adult running for the office of public other fish, the almost eel-like near future. channel catfish, Although walking catfish don't not only was I Not only does the catfishmake A fine table-fish, the blue cat predators are known to crawl actually walk, they use their ‘administrator, interested because Ihave experout of the water at night and good fishing, certain breeds is known to reach weights of bony pectoral fins. and their fence in this kind of work, but make a tasty morsel on the nearly 100 pounds. Also called slither around onshore to forage tails to propel themselves “on also because certain legal protable. the great fortailed cat: or on whatever food: they can find. land, A lung-like section of thier cedures are presently being folMost of the imported walking The catfish has always been Mississippi cat, its color shades gils enables the fish to remain the jurin California waters for angler from a dusky-blue or slatecatfish are albinos, with long, out of water for extended perilowed that are not within who knew its whereabouts, Comgrey to a silvery-white belly. pale-pink bodies and darker pink ods and to crawl over land from isdiction of this office. — I feel I am a qualified canmonly, the catfish has been At no.time in its life does it heads, butZ ‘their off-spring may ‘one stream or lake to another. known as a Mississippi River have the black spots of the fish, but its popularity hasheadyoung and young-aduit channel ed west. cat. Of course, as in all. life, there The DFG realizes that a lot are the good guys and the bad of the young blue cats are going guys. to be caught before they have a An article compiled by Ward chance to become whoppers. But Gillilan, information officer for what are the odds that some of the California Fish and Game the imports. may grow up to Deal new manager of NC Mother Lode Bank department, and printed in Outcatch some fishermen? Valley in 1959 and began working for Mother Lode in the Grass Valley branch. 4 During his 11 years at Moth door California reveals the folNine southern California pub-~ lowing information about catlic fishing lakes in November fish, reaped a bonus jackpot of 74 Blue Catfish have been inthousand 8to 10-inch channel er Lode, he has worked up the troduced into the state for the catfish from and improbable first time. source -two small duck ponds ladder of jobs, each requiring more responsibility. Deal and his wife, Mary, have five children; four attending local schools and one baby still at home. Tests have proved the feasion the Department of Fish and bility of mass-producing chanGame's Imperial Wildlife Area nel catfish for stocking in pubnear Niland. lic waters. The fast-growing young fish, But on the other side of the only six months out of the egg, coin is the ominous presence are a product of DFG tests that Lost — 248 registered of the so-called walking catfish, proved the feasibility of con which California's Fish and structing the state's first hatch Game Commission has now outery for mass-producing chanlawed in the state. nel catfish, The $1,093,000 If a Department of Fish and hatchery to be completed within voters Game experiment now underway g year on the Imperial Wildlife works out well, California Area, will produce 500,000 half anglers will be getting yanked pound channel cats annually for around by some awfully big catstocking in public waters. BILL DEAL ifornia in both Berkeley and Westwood, Heald’s Business ‘College and Heald's Engineering College, My training and experfence ‘consist of three years as a legal. secretary, two years as a private guardian handling estates, and 16 years as office manager or executive secretary in the following fields general construction, lumber industry, and disbursement of building funds. In each instance I held positions of responsibility and handled large sums of money so that integrity was essential. I also worked as chief deputy recorder. of Placer county and stenographer in the Nevada County Building Department. In view of my training and experience I feel qualified as a candidate and if elected public administrator. I. promise to fulfill the duties of this office and will not illegally perform acts which are properly the func tion and duty of the coroner nor Lost -248 registered voters will I abstain from. collecting in Nevada county sometime beBill Deal has been named Now swimming around in Lake inch catfish fry hatched in the manager of the Nevada City tween the 1968 general election all monies legally due the County and the last day to register for of Nevada, ‘thereby saving taxpayers’ money. Diego county, are 2,000 young prG's Central Valley Hatchery Mother. Lode Bank; Deal will be exchanging jobs this. June's: primary election. blue catfish, a speciesthat compear Sacramento for rearing, Chris Schaaf, who has been monly grows to 50 oF more’ 4+ tne cametime, nearly 200,000 with Nevada City branch manager. . county clerk reflect that the pounds in the Mississippi drainlargemouth bass fry produced Schaaf now will become assistgreat register of voters for age. They are the first blue in the test ponds were moved to ant and loan officer at 1970 is 248 names short of ae ever introduced into Calithe DFG's Chino Fisheries Base the cashier those listed on its pages for the Grass:Valley branch, 1968 election, Deal is a local product; gradSACRAMENTO —-: The CalfA 10-hour ride in a specially pgp pent oi Ca isRanks ofthe Republican, Dem.fornia Division of Highways touated from Grass Valley High equipped DFG plane brought the sued by the Department of Fish in 1950 and received ocratic, American Independent day is calling for bids on a 4-to8-inch fish from a‘U. S. and Game to home aquarium School his first banking experience with and Peace and Freedom parties project involving Interstate Bureau of Sport Fisheries and, owners and tropical fish dealers the Grass Valley Bank ofAmerall have been pared down, A Route 80 in Placer and Nevada Wildlife fish farm at Stuttgart, to help prevent the illegal recomparative list of voters for counties, Ark. to their new California jease of so-called walking catica, He served four years with the two election years is as The project: calls for repairthe U, S. Air Force and rehome, fish into California waters. follows: ‘ ing 24 bridge decks at various in The young blue cats were fin= Native to Eastern India and turned to the B of A branch ‘Republicans in 1970, 6,543, Interstate 80 locations between Ae eee, Nevada City for a few months clipped for identification before and in 1968, 6,687; Democrats the Cape’ Horn undercrossing Asia, the fast-breed “in 1955, their release. Two thousand Southeast ing imports are already conin 1970, 6,722, and in 1968 about 3.2 miles east of Colfax For the next three. years he channel catfish of comparable aeesd "disaster" in Souththere were 6,985; American Ih(Placer county) and Boca Bridge size also were marked and ern Florida where they were obtained his only out-of-state dependent, 1970, 74 and in 1968 overhead about seven miles east banking experience,. working as stocked in the lake for future jnegaitly released and are rapidthere were 100; Peace and Freeof Truckee (Nevada county), loan interviewer for the National comparision of the two spejy fish within the next few years. And last year, 86,000 one Bids sought for interstate — é crowding out and displacing tla ied and yield to the native fame fishes, Bank: of Commerce of San Andom, 1970, 1, and in 1968 there Repair, sealing, and resur. ffacing will be done as required, tonio, Tex. He returnedtoGrass were 2, -

8 the Nevada County Nugget, Wednesday, April 29, 1970 JONI REED Joni Reed tells THE GOON. The channel catfish, becoming more popular in. California fishing. And good eating. At right is the bad. The walking catfish kills native fish, It has been taken from northern California waters. Effective November 15, by revert to the more normal order of California's Fish and slate-grey mottled brown or . Game Commission, it became black, unlawful to possess, import, The banned fish are easily candidacy for administrator Joni Reed today issued a state transport or release into the identified by their flattened Catfish is becoming an ever _ DFG biologists say that fishwild any of the four members heads. with eight barbels, or ment concerning her candidacy — more popular sport for the ermen who think they have of the fish family, Claridae, "feelers", and their continuous for public administrator of California angler, and the Decaught blue catfish in California which includes walking catfish. fins which extend top and botNevada county: When several of my friends partment of Fish and Game is were probably misled by the sotom along the rear two-thirds of approached me with the idea of Vicious in. their attacks on their bodies, planning a catfish jackpot in the called blue phase of the adult running for the office of public other fish, the almost eel-like near future. channel catfish, Although walking catfish don't not only was I Not only does the catfishmake A fine table-fish, the blue cat predators are known to crawl actually walk, they use their ‘administrator, interested because Ihave experout of the water at night and good fishing, certain breeds is known to reach weights of bony pectoral fins. and their fence in this kind of work, but make a tasty morsel on the nearly 100 pounds. Also called slither around onshore to forage tails to propel themselves “on also because certain legal protable. the great fortailed cat: or on whatever food: they can find. land, A lung-like section of thier cedures are presently being folMost of the imported walking The catfish has always been Mississippi cat, its color shades gils enables the fish to remain the jurin California waters for angler from a dusky-blue or slatecatfish are albinos, with long, out of water for extended perilowed that are not within who knew its whereabouts, Comgrey to a silvery-white belly. pale-pink bodies and darker pink ods and to crawl over land from isdiction of this office. — I feel I am a qualified canmonly, the catfish has been At no.time in its life does it heads, butZ ‘their off-spring may ‘one stream or lake to another. known as a Mississippi River have the black spots of the fish, but its popularity hasheadyoung and young-aduit channel ed west. cat. Of course, as in all. life, there The DFG realizes that a lot are the good guys and the bad of the young blue cats are going guys. to be caught before they have a An article compiled by Ward chance to become whoppers. But Gillilan, information officer for what are the odds that some of the California Fish and Game the imports. may grow up to Deal new manager of NC Mother Lode Bank department, and printed in Outcatch some fishermen? Valley in 1959 and began working for Mother Lode in the Grass Valley branch. 4 During his 11 years at Moth door California reveals the folNine southern California pub-~ lowing information about catlic fishing lakes in November fish, reaped a bonus jackpot of 74 Blue Catfish have been inthousand 8to 10-inch channel er Lode, he has worked up the troduced into the state for the catfish from and improbable first time. source -two small duck ponds ladder of jobs, each requiring more responsibility. Deal and his wife, Mary, have five children; four attending local schools and one baby still at home. Tests have proved the feasion the Department of Fish and bility of mass-producing chanGame's Imperial Wildlife Area nel catfish for stocking in pubnear Niland. lic waters. The fast-growing young fish, But on the other side of the only six months out of the egg, coin is the ominous presence are a product of DFG tests that Lost — 248

registered of the so-called walking catfish, proved the feasibility of con which California's Fish and structing the state's first hatch Game Commission has now outery for mass-producing chanlawed in the state. nel catfish, The $1,093,000 If a Department of Fish and hatchery to be completed within voters Game experiment now underway g year on the Imperial Wildlife works out well, California Area, will produce 500,000 half anglers will be getting yanked pound channel cats annually for around by some awfully big catstocking in public waters. BILL DEAL ifornia in both Berkeley and Westwood, Heald’s Business ‘College and Heald's Engineering College, My training and experfence ‘consist of three years as a legal. secretary, two years as a private guardian handling estates, and 16 years as office manager or executive secretary in the following fields general construction, lumber industry, and disbursement of building funds. In each instance I held positions of responsibility and handled large sums of money so that integrity was essential. I also worked as chief deputy recorder. of Placer county and stenographer in the Nevada County Building Department. In view of my training and experience I feel qualified as a candidate and if elected public administrator. I. promise to fulfill the duties of this office and will not illegally perform acts which are properly the func tion and duty of the coroner nor Lost -248 registered voters will I abstain from. collecting in Nevada county sometime beBill Deal has been named Now swimming around in Lake inch catfish fry hatched in the manager of the Nevada City tween the 1968 general election all monies legally due the County and the last day to register for of Nevada, ‘thereby saving taxpayers’ money. Diego county, are 2,000 young prG's Central Valley Hatchery Mother. Lode Bank; Deal will be exchanging jobs this. June's: primary election. blue catfish, a speciesthat compear Sacramento for rearing, Chris Schaaf, who has been monly grows to 50 oF more’ 4+ tne cametime, nearly 200,000 with Nevada City branch manager. . county clerk reflect that the pounds in the Mississippi drainlargemouth bass fry produced Schaaf now will become assistgreat register of voters for age. They are the first blue in the test ponds were moved to ant and loan officer at 1970 is 248 names short of ae ever introduced into Calithe DFG's Chino Fisheries Base the cashier those listed on its pages for the Grass:Valley branch, 1968 election, Deal is a local product; gradSACRAMENTO —-: The CalfA 10-hour ride in a specially pgp pent oi Ca isRanks ofthe Republican, Dem.fornia Division of Highways touated from Grass Valley High equipped DFG plane brought the sued by the Department of Fish in 1950 and received ocratic, American Independent day is calling for bids on a 4-to8-inch fish from a‘U. S. and Game to home aquarium School his first banking experience with and Peace and Freedom parties project involving Interstate Bureau of Sport Fisheries and, owners and tropical fish dealers the Grass Valley Bank ofAmerall have been pared down, A Route 80 in Placer and Nevada Wildlife fish farm at Stuttgart, to help prevent the illegal recomparative list of voters for counties, Ark. to their new California jease of so-called walking catica, He served four years with the two election years is as The project: calls for repairthe U, S. Air Force and rehome, fish into California waters. follows: ‘ ing 24 bridge decks at various in The young blue cats were fin= Native to Eastern India and turned to the B of A branch ‘Republicans in 1970, 6,543, Interstate 80 locations between Ae eee, Nevada City for a few months clipped for identification before and in 1968, 6,687; Democrats the Cape’ Horn undercrossing Asia, the fast-breed “in 1955, their release. Two thousand Southeast ing imports are already conin 1970, 6,722, and in 1968 about 3.2 miles east of Colfax For the next three. years he channel catfish of comparable aeesd "disaster" in Souththere were 6,985; American Ih(Placer county) and Boca Bridge size also were marked and ern Florida where they were obtained his only out-of-state dependent, 1970, 74 and in 1968 overhead about seven miles east banking experience,. working as stocked in the lake for future jnegaitly released and are rapidthere were 100; Peace and Freeof Truckee (Nevada county), loan interviewer for the National comparision of the two spejy fish within the next few years. And last year, 86,000 one Bids sought for interstate — é crowding out and displacing tla ied and yield to the native fame fishes, Bank: of Commerce of San Andom, 1970, 1, and in 1968 there Repair, sealing, and resur. ffacing will be done as required, tonio, Tex. He returnedtoGrass were 2, -