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the river to the road without going over the almost impassable trail on 

 the south side of the river. This bridge is a great improvement and 

 facilitates the handling of tish and supplies at the hatchery. There was 

 distributed from this station during the last two seasons, 690,000 fry. 

 A cabin or small cottage should be built at this hatchery as the foreman 

 has to live in a tent cr board at the Wawona hotel, three-quarters of a 

 mile from his work, which makes it inconvenient for him. Someone 

 should live near the hatchery during the time the tish are being hatched 

 and distributed. 



KAWEAH HATCHERY. 



The Kaweah Hatchery has been operated in a tent for the last three 

 seasons as there has not been money enough in our funds to construct 

 a permanent hatchery according to the plans submitted by the state 

 architect. The fry that have been hatched at this hatchery were a 

 strong, healthy lot. proving that the water is suitable for hatchery pur- 

 poses. Plans shoulcl be made to construct a permanent building at this 

 site an the demand for trout in the Sequoia and General Grant National 

 parks and other sections of Tulare County and streams in the high 

 Sierras east of this section, is very great. This station should be 

 improved as soon as possible. 



BRANSCOMB EXPERIMENTAL EGG-COLLECTING STATION. 



During the summer of 1921, leases were procured for the sites of three 

 traps and a temporary egg-collecting station on the South Fork of Eel 

 JRiver, Kinney Creek and Charlie Creek, tributaries of the South Fork 

 of Eel River.' Traps were installed and cabins of rough boards built for 

 the accommodation of the men. A tent frame was erected on Kinney 

 Creek and twenty hatching troughs set up. The work at this station was 

 undertaken to cietermine whether a sufficient number of salmon and 

 steelhead trout eggs could be collected in this branch of Eel River to 

 supply Fort Seward Hatchery with salmon eggs to keep up the greatly 

 depleted run of salmon in Eel River as well as to collect steelhead trout 

 eggs to supply Eel River and other streams Avhere the demand for steel- 

 head trout fry is very great. The traps were installed during the sum- 

 mer and fall' of 1921, and everything put in readiness to collect eggs 

 if the salmon should run in such numbers as they did in former years. 



Owing to the excessive fishing in the lower reaches of the river and the 

 extremely low water in Eel River at the time that the salmon should 

 have ascended the stream, no eggs were collected. During the spring 

 there was such high water in these creeks that attempts to collect steel- 

 head trout eggs were practically cut of the ciuestion. 



FiSHWAYS AND SCREENS. 



During the period from January, 1920, to June 30, 1922, the inspec- 

 tions of screens and fish ways has been carried on efficiently. We find 

 that there is less opposition in installing fishways and screens than 

 when the work was first begun. The only ones to resist the law until 

 threatened by in.junction proceedings are some of the large hydro-elec- 

 tric companies, who do not want to comply with the laAv as they fear 

 that if they construct fishways they will have to give up some of the 



