KKI'ORT OF STATE BOARD OF FISH COMMISSIONER- 



15 



FlFTY-SKVK.NTH FISCAL YEAR. 



Resources. 



Disburse- 

 me: 



Appropriation for support and maintenance of State hatcheries. 



A pi>ropriation for restoration an 'I preservation of t.'anie 



Appropriation for restoration and preservation of tisli 



Steelhead Propagation Fund — 

 Balance on band July 1, 1906. . 

 Drawn from fund daring 



$12,500 00 

 12,600 00 



10,000 00 



135 71 



Balance on hand July 1, 1905 



Receipts from tines during year. 

 Amount drawn during year 

 Balance on hand June 30, I 



1 315 16 



BHah ( 'ommistion Fund — 



Balance on hand July l, 1906 



Receipts from licenses and fines 



Amount drawn from fuml dur. 

 Balance on hand June 30, 190ti 



t • 



lo ;}Q 35 



Totals 



$57,Ot;i 71 



$12.5' 



12,5 



10,000 00 



135 71 



W 80 

 1,1/2 55 



10,255 54 

 6,059 11 



61 71 



SISS0N HATCHERY. 



In our biennial report covering the years 1903-04 we made extended 

 reference to the record accomplished ;it this, one of the most important 

 fish cultural stations in the United States. We are pleased to report 

 that the record made two years ago has l>e«-n surpassed in many respects 

 since Unit time. The $10,000 appropriation granted for "Improvements 

 of Sisson Hatchery" has been repaid to this State more than tenfold. 

 We knew that we had at that station trained hatchery employes, whose 

 long experience and knowledge of fish culture made them the equal 

 of any men in similar work in this country. Until the above 

 appropriation was granted we were not able to make them comfortable 

 on the grounds, or to compensate them fairly, for the services they 

 were rendering. In the past two years we have installed a complete 

 electric lighting plant, operated by our own water supply, which now 

 furnishes light to the three hatchery buildings, the food-preparing 

 establishment, the residence of the superintendent, and the two 

 cottages on the grounds. The third hatchery we were able to construct 

 and furnish completely without asking a cent of appropriation 

 therefor. It has a capacity somewhat larger than our main hatchery 

 building. The details in reference to these improvements, together 

 with the construction of new fish ponds, will be found in the following 

 report of Superintendent W. H. Shebley, of that station. 



On the additional acreage of land which we were able to purchase th rough 

 the appropriation, we have yet a great deal of space that is available 

 for the construction of new ponds, and which will be utilized as our 



