REPORT OF THE FISH AND GAME COMMISSION. 



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will be an increase of nalimil propasation, and the fry from the natural 

 propagation, as well as from the hatcheries, will have a chance to live 

 and grow to a larger size. And the anglers will have in turn a better 

 sized fish to catch. 



CHINOOK SALMON. 

 The proi)a^ation of t'liinuok sahiKjii has engaged tlie attrnti(jn of 

 this department as in former years, and while no radical change in 

 method or policy has been made, there has been a steady improvement 

 in the work. Tlie policy of holding and feeding a large number of 

 salmon fry in the big saliiimi rearing ponds at the Mount Shasta 



Fig. 4. Eel River, a.t the in<juth of Fort Seward Creek, showing the extremely low 

 water level on February 23. 1920 — the lowest on record. Low water prevents the fish 

 from reaching their spawning grounds. Photograph by M. K. Spaulding. 



Hatchery throughout the summer months, and releasing them during 

 the fall when conditions are propitious for their journey to the sea. has 

 been strictly adhered to. 



The ma.ior portion of our Chinook salmon eggs has. as in years past, 

 been received from the United States Bureau of Fisheries' stations at 

 Mill Creek and Battle Creek, tributaries of the Sacramento River. 



All rights to the use of their old station at Klamathon on the Klamath 

 River, in Siskiyou Count.w were secured from the Bureau of Fisheries 

 and this hatchery has Ixcn operated for the past two years. The first 

 season we were not properly prepared to conduct operations and only 



