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ermeii and others, on the upper waters of the rivers. Numbers of 

 fishermen liave been Icnown to catcli and sell salmon immediately 

 after spawning and upon the spawning grounds, when the fish were 

 wholly unfit for human food. This grievous evil, in our opinion^ 

 should be prohibited by very stringent laws. 



TRUCKEE TROUT. 



Of this species of fish, most are taken in the State of Nevada, on 

 account of the various dams in that State, which are constructed in 

 such form that it is impossible for trout to raise over them. Unless 

 the State of Nevada does something towards dam abatement, the 

 Truckee River trout will be a fish of the past in a very short time. 

 Although the citizens of Nevada stoutly deny this fact, it appears 

 strange that no trout are caught above the Nevada State line, when 

 in former years they were abundant the whole length of the river 

 from Pyramid Lake to Lake Tahoe. 



Commissioner Dibble visited several of the dams in the State of 

 Nevada, and in his report, before the meeting of the Board held on 

 the fourteenth day of April, 1884, he stated that the statements of the 

 mill owners on that portion of the river in California were correct, in 

 that it was impossible for trout to ascend the Truckee above Foulkes' 

 Dam, near Verdi, in the State of Nevada. 



LAND-LOCKED SALMON". 



The Commission received from Mr. Atkins, Deputy United States 

 Fish Commissioner at Bucksport, State of Maine, 30,000 eggs of the 

 Shadoe salmon. They were received on the seventeenth of March, 

 1884, in good condition, and were hatched with only a loss of seven 

 and one half per cent. They were distributed in the lakes as follows: 



Bigler 15,000 



Donner 5,000 



Webber 5,000 



The plant of land-locked salmon by the former Commissioners has 

 only been a partial success. Very few of the fish have been taken as 

 yet, although a better showing is looked for. At present writing, the 

 catch has been about the same as last season, no great amount having 

 been captured. 



, PERCH. 



In former years this fish was very plentiful, but has become very 

 scarce in the last few years, owing to several causes, viz.: 



First — We believe the greatest cause of disappearance is due to the 

 reclamation of our tule lands by closing the sloughs, whereby ingress 

 and egress is stopped, causing them to deposit their spawn in the 

 rivers, and the spawn is lost by being covered with sediment. 



Second — By a continual drain upon the supply by Chinese and 

 other fishermen, who are ever on the alert to find their hiding places. 



In our opinion a law should be passed to protect them from seine 

 fishing for at least two years. 



For some reason the run of perch has been better this year (1884) 

 than for a number of years past, owing, probably, to the several 



