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CALIFORNIA FISH AND GAME. 



Creek, aud that the first storms will in 

 all probability brius: them up to our sta- 

 tion. We anticipate collecting the usual 

 number of eggs at this hatchery. 



SCREEN AND FISHWAY SURVEYS. 



A number of new surveys for fish lad- 

 ders have been made during the winter 

 in Santa Cruz, Siskiyou and Mariposa 

 counties. New notices to install screens 

 have been serA'ed during the past six 

 months on nearly every ditch owner in 

 tlic state who has not heretofore installed 

 suitable screens, ^^mong the more im- 

 portant screens which have been installed 

 during the past winter are those of the 

 Northern California Power Company, in 

 Shasta and Tehama counties. The com- 

 mission has been endeavoring since 3912 

 to have the large canals of this company 



properly screened, but it was not until 

 the last couple of months that our efforts 

 were successful. The screens installed 

 are, with one exception, of the Southern 

 California Edison type and are of first 

 class construction. 



The Anderson-Cottonwood Irrigation 

 Project is at the present time construct- 

 ing a three-unit screen, each unit of 

 which will be 12 feet 5 inches in diameter 

 and 9 feet long. This installation is also 

 of the Southern California Edison type. 

 The construction of the screen will be 

 completed before the water is turned into 

 the canal. 



The Stanford University Vina Kanch 

 has let contracts for the construction and 

 installation of the new type of Requa 

 automatic cleaning screens for all of their 

 ditches. 



COMMERCIAL FISHERY NOTES. 



N. B. SCOFIELD, Editor. 



ADDITIONAL INFORMATION ON 

 HERRING. 



There is a great mass of literature on 

 the herring fisheries and on the life his- 

 tory of the Atlantic herring but very 

 little has been published on the Pacific 

 herring. Those ii terested may find the 

 spawning habits of the Pacific herring 

 described in a paper by Dr. C. M. Frazer, 

 published by the Biological Board of 

 Canada (University of Toronto Press, 

 1916). 



For information as to what the scope 

 of a fisheries investigation should be, read 

 "A Contribution to the J.ife History of 

 the Pacific Herring: Its Bearing on the 

 Condition and Future of the Fishery." by 

 W. F. Thompson, in the Report of the 

 Commissioner of Fisheries, British Colum- 

 bia, for 1916. 



A full description of the Scotch method 

 of curing herring may be obtained from 

 the Ignited States Bureau of Fisheries, 

 Washington, D. C. 



SHAD SEASON APPROACHING. 

 The herring season has about come to 

 a close and the shad, a near relative, 

 will take its place. I'eople will continue 



I.) talk of the bigh cost of fish, and of 



bones, and the shad taken in California 

 will continue to travel across the conti-' 

 nent to those who appreciate a good fish. 



FRESH SARDINES NOT 

 APPRECIATED. 



The California sardine is a splendid 

 fish to fry in the pan, and is abundant 

 and cheap. During what has been termed 

 the "fish famine" of the past winter, 

 sardines could have been obtained almost 

 without limit, but, except as a canned 

 product, there Avas no sale for them. 



CLAMOR FOR STURGEON. 



Whereas the sardine catch in Califor- 

 nia is over one hundred million pounds 

 annually, there is a clamor for the re- 

 moval of fishing restrictions from the now 

 nearly extinct sturgeon. 



SALMON CATCH IN 1917. 



The catch of salmon on the Sacramento 

 and San Joaquin rivers, including San 

 Francisco Bay, from January to Decem- 

 ber, 1917, inclusive, was 7,219,84() 

 pounds. 



The catcli of salmon on JNIouterey Bay 

 for (lie sami' year was ."..9X1 ,(;70 ])(iiiii(ls. 



