THIRTIETH BIENNIAL REPORT 



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PONDS FOR SPINEY-RAYED FISHES, CATFISH, ETC. 



Owing to the great demand for the spiney-rayed game fishes, such as 

 black bass, crappies. calico bass, blue gill suufish, orange sunfish and 

 perch, Ave recommend that a suitable site be obtained where these 

 species can be raised in large numbers — several million each season — 

 and distributed the same as trout. There are districts where this is 

 not necessary, but information on this subject seems to indicate that 

 there are many areas in the valley regions where these species should 

 be more numerous. Probably before investing in this line of work a 

 careful study and biological survey should be made, but from the evi- 

 dence now at hand we believe that such a pond system would be a bene- 

 fit in keeping up the supply of these valuable food and game fishes. 



Fig. 9. Spawning operations at June Lake, where the supply of trout eggs is 

 obtained for the June Lake Hatchery. Photograph by Burton Frasher. 



We again repeat our recommendation that the use of fish eggs for bait 

 should be prohibited, as the use of canned salmon eggs, particularly, 

 cause the fish to be taken too easily and it is almost impossible to keep 

 a supply of fish in our waters where salmon eggs and the eggs of other 

 species are used to entice fish to gather in large schools where they feed 

 ravenously on the eggs and where they are so easily taken. Natural 

 bait and artificial flies should be the only bait allowed by law. Soon 

 there will be no fishing for anyone if some radical methods are not 

 adopted to prevent the taking of the fish so easily and often in numbers 

 in violation of the limit fixed by law. 



The legislature should arrange for the Commission to purchase the 

 Klamath River canneries and prohibit any commercial fishing on the 

 Klamath River, 



