This Month's Articles
Salmon and Trout Education Program	Hatchery Report
The State of the Project	Albacore Albacore Albacore
Volunteers Activities Corner	5th Annual Mammoth Monterey Bay Salmon Derby
King Salmon Enhancement

5TH ANNUAL MAMMOTH MONTEREY BAY SALMON DERBY By Larry Wolf The Monterey Bay Salmon & Trout Project again proudly announces their 5th Annual Mammoth All Monterey Bay Salmon Derby to be held July 2nd, 3rd, & 4th. With 6 weigh-in stations, all the Monterey Bay will be open to fishing. We are again maintaining the same prize categories as last year's format. This year's first place fish by weight will win $1,000. The second place fish by weight will win $500 and the third place fish by weight will win $250. In addition, we will award a daily weight prize worth $50 in cash & prizes. There will be 27 other prizes based on weight. An additional 30 prizes not based on weight, will be awarded to any fish entered into the derby. Last, an additional 10 prizes will be awarded to entrants who did not catch a fish but entered their derby stub at a weight station. We gave away some very nice prizes to those individuals, so it pays to turn in your derby tickets stubs even if you don't catch a fish. Once again we are giving away a boat and motor donated by West Marine as this year's grand prize raffle. We will be giving away some very nice round of golf at some of our finest local golf courses as well as gift certificates to many fine restaurants. Derby tickets are priced at $15 per day and $25 for all three days. Each derby ticket includes a free raffle ticket. Additional raffle tickets may be purchased at $5 each. This year's hats and shirts will be on priced at $15 per shirt or hat or $25 for the pair. All proceeds go directly to the hatchery. Last, we recognize the need to conserve our natural resources. Please keep all legal fish caught. A large portion of fish released do not survive the ordeal. Tickets will go on sale June 10, 1999 at all Longs Drug Stores in the Monterey Bay area. In addition, tickets may be purchased at West Marine, Ernie's Casting Pond, Outdoor World, Bayside Tackle, Shamrock Charters, Tom's Sportfishing, Chris', Sam's, & Randy's Sport fishing in Monterey and Yagi's Tackle Shop in Watsonville. In San Jose, contact Mel Cotton's. Tickets may also be purchased at all Launch Points or by contacting Larry Wolf, 243 Ranchitos Del Sol, Aptos, CA 95003. We hope to see you there.

KING SALMON ENHANCEMENT PROGRAM--1999 BY BOB MONTGOMERY, DIRECTOR As this article is being written, MBS&TP volunteers are within four days of releasing 60,000 king salmon into the Monterey Bay at the Monterey Harbor. An earlier batch of 120,000 beautiful little salmon have already been released, with practically no loss of fish in the process. This sounds a lot easier than it actually is. There is a great deal of planning and preparation before the actual release of the fish can occur. First comes the cooperation of the California Department Of Fish & Game under Jerry Ayers. Mr. Ayers oversees the DFG Cooperative Fish Rearing Program and is their chief coordinator. He was on hand for both deliveries of fish to insure that we received healthy, viable fish. Also in use for the first time, was the new DFG delivery truck. All 60,000 salmon were delivered on the same truck in just one delivery. This is a very safe and effective method of transporting the young fish. Before any of our fish arrive, the City of Monterey, Harbormaster Steve Scheiblauer and his assistant, Paul Dangreau, and the employees of the harbor division, must prepare the dock space and additional help to assemble the floating pens. Their donation of dock space and work crews is much appreciated. I want to give special recognition to Howard Thielbar, our manager, and Gary Anderson. Both of these volunteers are responsible for repairing and assembling the pens, and for the overall operation of the Monterey Enhancement Project. I cannot list all of the other volunteers because there are so many of them. This is one of the rewarding aspects of the project. These people come from everywhere, sport and commercial fishermen, interested bystanders, folks from the Monterey Bay Veterans, to name a few. I am sure that I have forgotten some of you but rest assured, your work was appreciated by all of us at MBS&TP. Each year is a learning process. Hopefully, we can expand the enhancement program to the Santa Cruz Harbors and Moss Landing Harbor. This will enable us to do a much better job in providing more king salmon to the Monterey Bay. Everybody wins!!