REPORT OB^ THE FISH AND GAME COMMISSION. 



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were deposited in natural feeding grounds under conditions as nearly 

 perfect as it was possible to find. Several million of the fry are held 

 each season in the large ponds at Sisson Station, where they are carefully 

 looked after and sy.stematieally fed until they are about eight months 

 old ; then they are distributed in the Klamath and Sacramento rivers 

 early in the fall. A record of the numbers and place of distribution of 

 these plants will be found in the statistical report of distribution from 

 Sisson Hatchery. 



During the fall of 1914, the commission decided to construct another 

 hatchery building on the grounds of the Sisson Station to enable them 



Fig. 43. Hatchery "A" at Sisson. Photograph by G. R. Field. 



to hold the fry so they could attain a better growth by giving them 

 less crowding and more trough space. Accordingly, plans were made 

 by the Department of Hatcheries, which the board approved. The 

 plans called for a building 190 feet long and 42 feet wide, to contain 

 148 hatching troughs. As the expense of constructing this hatchery was 

 over one thousand dollars, we had to have the work carried on under 

 the supervision of the State Department of Engineering. This was 

 to comply with a recently enacted law. To allow us to carry out our 

 plans of constructing this building, W. F. McClure, State Engineer, 

 kindly appointed the superintendent of hatcheries a deputy state engi- 

 neer to construct the building. The work was rushed and the building 

 completed in time to receive part of the salmon eggs from the Bureau of 

 Fisheries' stations during the latter part of the hatch of salmon eggs 

 for the season of 1914 (see Fig. 44). 



