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REPORT OF THE FISH AND GAME COMMISSION. 



Navigatioii L'ouii)aiiy, Aiiuulur Ceiitrai Kailroad, MeCloud River Rail- 

 road Company, Yreka Railroad Company, Oakland, Antioch and Eastern 

 Railwa}' Company, Northern Electric Railway Company, San Joaquin 

 and Eastern Railroad, Visalia Electric Railroad, Yosemite Valley Rail- 

 road and Virginia and Truckee Railroad, for the free transportation of 

 the employees of the hatchery department in care of the eggs and fish, 

 and for the free transportation of our distribution cars. Without their 

 assistance our work would be restricted very materially. 



Fig. SO. New egg collecting station at Rae Lakes, showing the type of structure that must 

 be erected to withstand the heavy snows at elevations above 10,000 feet. Photo- 

 graph by P. H. Shebley. 



Recommendations. 

 The most important recommendation that we desire to make is one 

 in regard to dams in rivers inhabited hy migratory fish, particularly 

 salmon. We would recommend that a law be passed the same as the 

 proposed federal law for the territory of Alaska. A law should be 

 passed providing that any person or corporation desiring to construct a 

 dam or obstruction in any stream in which migratory fish exist to a 

 height that will make a fishway thereover impracticable, in the opinion 

 of the Fish and Game Commission of the state of California, shall secure 

 a site and erect thereon a hatchery, dwellings for the help, traps for 

 taking the fish and all equipment necessary to operate a hatchery station 

 according to the plans furnished by the Fish and Game Commission, 

 and to convey the same to the commission when completed. If a site is 

 not available or the water not suitable at or near the dam, the owners or 



