. California fish and game. Fisheries -- California; Game and game-birds -- California; Fishes -- California; Animal Population Groups; Pêches; Gibier; Poissons. 64 CALIFORNIA FISH AND GAME. worthwhile results in the prevention of bird and mammal diseases are to he expected. Bureau of Screens and Ladders. An outstanding accomplishment is the clearing up of a difficult situation that has existed on the Sacramento River near Redding, owing to the inability of salmon to pass beyond the dam of the Anderson Cottonwood Irrigation District. The matter has finally been adjusted and all sportsmen and c
. California fish and game. Fisheries -- California; Game and game-birds -- California; Fishes -- California; Animal Population Groups; Pêches; Gibier; Poissons. 64 CALIFORNIA FISH AND GAME. worthwhile results in the prevention of bird and mammal diseases are to he expected. Bureau of Screens and Ladders. An outstanding accomplishment is the clearing up of a difficult situation that has existed on the Sacramento River near Redding, owing to the inability of salmon to pass beyond the dam of the Anderson Cottonwood Irrigation District. The matter has finally been adjusted and all sportsmen and conservationists will be glad to hear that a fishway built on cor- rect principles is actually being installed. Several others are being repaired and several new installations are being made. A large map mounted in the offices of the Bureau of Screens and Ladders now shows all of the more important instal- lations made by the Bureau. Engineer Spencer inspected the much advertised Baker Dam "lift" in Washing- ton during November and attended the meeting of the International Pacific Salmon Investigation Federation, at Seattle. Mechanical difficulties connected with proposed lifts to replace fishways over high dams are easily surmounted as compared with the biological problems Fig. 13. A 38-pound striped bass, 48 inches in length, caught by John Gerber on the Sacramento River, near Sacramento, season of 1926. It took 45 minutes to land this fish. Photograph by John Gerber. It is hoped that with the completion of this fishway, salmon will again appear in numbers at the spawning station of the LTnited States Bureau of Fisheries located at Baird, Shasta County. Reports were at hand on December 15, 1926, that fifty-nine screens were in suc- cessful operation. Every installed screen will be inspected as soon as possible and records made as to its effectiveness. Simi- larly, every ditch reported as needing a screen will be inspected and the proper installation recom
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