56 REPORT OF THE FISIT AND GAME COMMISSION. 



Administration Changes. 

 The commission decided during the fall of 1915 to have the office of 

 the Department of Fishciilture moved from Sisson Hatchery to San 

 Francisco. This move necessitated a reorganization of the department. 

 E. W. Hunt, who has been superintendent of the Tahoe hatcheries for 

 twenty-five years, was made Field Agent of the Department of Fish- 

 culture, with the detail work of the hatcheries and the car messenger 

 service under his supervision. A. E. Culver was placed in charge of 

 screen surveys and A. E. Doney in charge of fishway surveys. As the 

 superintendent of hatcheries had retained his appointment as superin- 

 tendent of the Sisson Station since the date of his appointment as 

 superintendent of hatcheries in November, 1911, a change in the 

 superintendency of the Sisson Hatchery was necessary. A civil service 

 examination was held in January, 1916, and Gr. H. Lambson, who had 

 been with the Bureau of Fisheries as superintendent in the car messen- 

 ger service and superintendent of Baird Hatchery, successfully passed 

 it and was appointed by the commission as Superintendent of the Sisson 

 Hatchery. 



Stocking Lakes in the Inaccessible Mountain Regions of the State. 



In the high Sierras and in the western part of Siskiyou and Trinity 

 counties are hundreds of lakes of various sizes that are now barren of 

 fish life. These can all be stocked at a small expense to the state and a 

 greater area of fishing ground added to the state's wealth of waters in 

 which game fishes will thrive. 



Other improvements can be made by transplanting insects and other 

 items of food from other waters to the streams and lakes that are lacking 

 an abundance of proper food for trout. This work should be taken up 

 at once and carried on systematically until all the streams and lakes 

 that are deficient in proper food for the trout are in condition. 



Fish Propagation. 



Eight hatcheries and six egg collecting stations have been operated 

 to their full capacity during the last two seasons and it will be necessary 

 to enlarge our present stations and establish new ones to meet the 

 demand for trout fry as well as to do the salmon work properly. 



Our hatcheries should all be equipped with enough troughs and rear- 

 ing tanks to rear the fry to a fair size before shipping. The relative 

 advantages of planting fry or fingerlings in our streams and lakes is a 

 question that is being brought up continually and in which there is a 

 great difference in opinion. In our judgment both systems have their 

 advantages, depending on the size of the stream, altitude, amount of 

 natural food, variety of the fish and the season of the year. By 

 studying these conditions and using good judgment and care in the 

 distribution of cither fry or fingerlings good results can be obtained. 



