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REPORT OF STATE BOARD OF FISH COMMISSIONERS. 



means will permit. All of the improvements made have been of a per- 

 manent character. The only expense is the one of maintenance. 



The new hatchery (already referred to) enabled us in the past year to 

 handle, in conjunction with hatcheries "A" and "B," the largest num- 

 ber of salmon eggs ever handled under one management in the world. 

 Since these improvements were completed the station has been visited 

 by Mr. L. F. Ayson, Fisheries Commissioner of New Zealand. Mr. 

 Ayson has been actively engaged in fish cultural work for upwards of 

 thirty years. He has visited the principal hatcheries in the United 



SISSOX HATCHERY, SISSON, CALIFORNIA. 

 (Mount Shasta in the background.) 



States and Canada and those on the Continent of Europe three times. 

 We therefore feel his opinion is entitled to respectful attention. He 

 informs us that the fish cultural work, as he saw it at Sisson, is " head 

 and shoulders " above anything in Europe and " equal to the best he 

 has ever seen." " In my opinion the Sisson Hatchery has the finest 

 location of any I have ever seen, and the high quality of the work is 

 reached by only a few; the standard of the general output is beyond 

 that of any station that has come under my observation." 



With reference to the details, we respectfully submit the following 

 report of W. H. Shebley, Superintendent of Sisson Hatchery, whose 

 reputation as a skillful fish culturist is second to none: 



