Appendix to the Journals of the Senate and Assembly of the ..session of the Legislature of the State of California . lifornia on their annual migra-tions to their spawning grounds. We found that the ReclamationService had installed a fishway, but that it was not properly arrangedfor the passage of large fish. The smaU trout in limited numberswould ascend the fishway above the dam, but the large spawners wouldnot pass into it, or through it. With the assistance of Hon. Geo. T. 58 REPORT OP THE FISH AND GAME COMMISSION. Mills, President of the Nevada Fish Commission, we gathered thenecessary inf
Appendix to the Journals of the Senate and Assembly of the ..session of the Legislature of the State of California . lifornia on their annual migra-tions to their spawning grounds. We found that the ReclamationService had installed a fishway, but that it was not properly arrangedfor the passage of large fish. The smaU trout in limited numberswould ascend the fishway above the dam, but the large spawners wouldnot pass into it, or through it. With the assistance of Hon. Geo. T. 58 REPORT OP THE FISH AND GAME COMMISSION. Mills, President of the Nevada Fish Commission, we gathered thenecessary information to establish the fact that the large lake troutfrom Pyramid Lake could not pass the Derby dam. The matter wastaken up with the United States Reclamation Service through Con-gressman J. E. Raker, who used his influence to further our efforts inhaving a proper fishway installed. The Reclamation Service desired tomake changes on the fishway that had been installed, but in the judg-ment of the California and Nevada Fish Commissions, it would notmeet the requirements. In November, 1913, a survey was made by. Fish-way over Clough Dam in Mill Creek, Tehama County. our department assisted by the members of the Nevada Fish Com-mission, for a new fishway over the Derby dam, which in our judgmentwill allow the large lake trout to pass up the river, if all the details ofthe plan are properly carried out. As soon as the plans were approvedby the Nevada and California Fish Commissions, they were forwardedto Congressman Raker, who presented them to the Secretary of theInterior and the officers of the Reclamation Service, and we have beenassured the fishway will be constructed according to the plan that weprepared, this coming fall. Congressman Raker deserves the thanks ofthe state for his keen interest and untiring efforts in getting theReclamation Service to construct the fishway over Derby dam. REPORT OF THE PISH AND GAME COMMISSION. 59 FolloAving is a list of surveys which have be
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