REPORT OP THE FI.SH AND GAME COMMISSION. 



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will be an increase of natural propajration, and the fry from the natural 

 propagation, as well as from the li.itchcries, will have a chance to live 

 and grow to a larger size. And the anglers w ill liavc in turn a better 

 sized fish to catch. 



CHINOOK SALMON. 

 The propagation of Chinook saliiKui lias engaged the attention of 

 this dcpai-tinciit as in foriin'r years, and while no radical change in 

 method oi- policy has been made, there has been a steady improvement 

 in the work. The policy of holding and feeding a large number of 

 salmon fry in the big salmon rearing j^onds at the Mount Shasta 



KlG. 4. l-v.-l Ki, ;, .1 ;,!.' iii.iiith i.f I'.irt Scwar,! ('i. .-U, -Ii.iwjiil; I:--  \tremely low 

 water level on February 2.3, 1920 — the lowest on record. Low water prevents the fish 

 from reaching their spawning grounds. Photograph by M. K. Spaulding. 



Hatchery throughout the summer months, and releasing them during 

 the fall when conditions are propitious for their journey to the sea, has 

 been strictly adhered to. 



The major portion of our Chinook salmon eggs has, as in years past, 

 been received from the United States Bureau of Fisheries' stations at 

 ^rill Creek and Battle Creek, tributaries of the Sacramento River. 



All rights to the use of their old station at Klamathon on the Klamath 

 River, in Siskiyou Count}', were secured from the Bureau of Fisheries 

 and this hatchery has been operated for the past two years. The first 

 season we were not properly prepared to conduct operations and only 



