38 REPORT OF THE FISH AND GAME COMMISSION. 
this stretch of water. In this same place 150 to 200 nets were in 
operation during the season. On November 5 the river raised about 
one foot, being the first opportunity the fish had to proceed up river 
since the season opened. Up to this time no salmon had made their 
appearance at the racks, and it had allowed almost one month’s netting 
In an area from which it was absolutely impossible for any fish to 
escape. On November 30 high water washed out the racks and further 
operations were discontinued. Up to this time we caught 38 males 
and 71 females, a total of 109 fish, with a result of 253,000 eges.’’ 
During the same period the market fishermen shipped from this 
county 685,674 pounds of chinook salmon, which reduced to fish allow- 
ing 20 pounds to the fish would make 34,283 salmon caught from 
October 7 to November 30. 
Summary. 
Salmon caught at racks, October ‘and November__.._____-__-_________ 109 
Salmon caught by market fishermen from same period, exclusive of local 
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Klamath River Salmon Station. 
In January, 1913, the California and Oregon Power Company began 
the construction of a concrete dam in the Klamath River two and a half 
miles above the mouth of Fall Creek in Siskiyou County. This dam, 
110 feet high, has required a great deal of study on the part of this 
department. The great problem involved was whether an efficient 
fishway could be constructed on such a dam, and if such a fishway was 
constructed, what would be the benefit derived from such an under- 
taking. The principal run of fish on the Klamath River in the region 
of Copeo dam is trout and salmon. The Federal Bureau of Fisheries 
has operated a salmon egg-collecting station on the river below the dam 
and have for the last eight years prevented the salmon from ascending 
the river above the racks at Hornbrook. This is necessary that the 
supply of salmon may be maintained in the Klamath River. If the 
racks were removed and the salmon allowed to ascend the river and 
a fishway constructed that would allow the passage of the breeding 
salmon above the dam, the resulting fry would have to return to the 
‘ocean and on their downward journey would be destroyed by the 
power wheels of the hydro-electric plant that takes the water from the 
dam, for in our opinion it is impossible to successfully sereen a pipe 
that has such a suction as the tubes that feed the turbines at this plant. 
Therefore, in our judgment it would be a waste of time to construct a 
fishway for the passage of salmon above the Copco dam. 
The trout in the Klamath River are distributed locally, as well as by 
a run of sea-run fish. The great majority of the trout that are in the 
upper regions of the river are fish that inhabit the local pools. These 
