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p-i'c;itrr advantage tliaii is possiljle fi'oiii citlicr the Mount Shasta or 

 :\r<)iint Whitney liatehpries. This hatohory is expected to be in full 

 operation for thr t'orllicoiiiinu- li'oiit scasnu. The water rights have been 

 secui'i'd, th  sii])i)l\- 'iiiaraiilccd, and il lias hcni t h()i-(iii<,'lily tested by 

 tile suiccssl'id (»i)riation I'oi' \\\r past two seasons of an cxperiinental 

 hatch( i-y iiiidrr canvas. 



Extensive repairs which liad 1 n np,i?lectcd at the Mount Shasta 



and Fall Creek hatcheries, due to war conditions, are now under way. 

 The coining' season will find thise liatcheries fully equipped in all 

 respects. 



MOUNT WHITNEY HATCHERY. 



Improvement wcrk has steadily gone on at the magnificent Mount 

 AVhitney hatchery in Inyo County. Tlic grounds and approaches 

 have been improved to match its general scheme. 



Among the ether five and one-half millions of trout hatched and dis- 

 tributed from the JNIount Whitney Hatchery were 300,000 golden trout 

 during the past season, which were distributed under the direi't super- 

 \ision of Commissioner Connell, into barren lakes and streams in the 

 southern Sierras. The location and water supply of this hatchery have 

 ami)ly justified its selection as an ideal hatching and rearing place for 

 the rare and dainty trout of our southern Sierra, found in no other part 

 of the world, the golden trout. 



FISHWAYS AND SCREENS. 



Although the building of fishways has been retarded by the drought 

 of the ])ast three years, in spite of it, remarkable progress has been 

 made. Surveys were made of 82 new fishways, practically all of which 

 luive been constructed, the most important of them being the one located 

 on the American Kivei-, at the Folsom dam. The surveys, plans and the 

 construction ot." these ladders have been made under the constant super- 

 vision of deputy A. E. Doney, who has specialized in this work for more 

 than fifteen years. 



Surveys and legal notices to install screens to prevent the loss of 

 young fish through irrigation canals and power wheels, have been made, 

 on 171 streams, ditches and canals, practically all of them now working 

 efficiently. This important work is under the supervision of jNIr. A. E. 

 Culver as screen inspector. In most cases our requests have been met 

 with ready compliance. In fact, there has never been a time in the his- 

 tory of the state when the conservation of our fish by installation of 

 screens an^l fishways has been needed more, owing to the constantly 

 increasing amount of water that is being diverted for agricultural and 

 industrial purnoses. 



