. California fish and game. Fisheries -- California; Game and game-birds -- California; Fishes -- California; Animal Population Groups; Pêches; Gibier; Poissons. 20 CALIFORNIA FISH AND GAME. In accordance witli the jn'ovisions of tlie law, which requires owners of dams to erect hatcheries in lien of fishways, when dams are too high for the successful operation of a fishway, the California-Oregon Power Company, owners of the Copco dam, were required to buikl and equip a hatchery at Fall Creek, and to build racks and an egg-collecting station for salmon at Klamathon. This etiuipment cost the com
. California fish and game. Fisheries -- California; Game and game-birds -- California; Fishes -- California; Animal Population Groups; Pêches; Gibier; Poissons. 20 CALIFORNIA FISH AND GAME. In accordance witli the jn'ovisions of tlie law, which requires owners of dams to erect hatcheries in lien of fishways, when dams are too high for the successful operation of a fishway, the California-Oregon Power Company, owners of the Copco dam, were required to buikl and equip a hatchery at Fall Creek, and to build racks and an egg-collecting station for salmon at Klamathon. This etiuipment cost the company about $20,000. This spawn-taking station and hatchery now form the nucleus for most of the salmon cultural operations. The racks are well built and the resulting take of salmon is very satisfactory'. The station is operated during late September and October, a crew of five or six men being necessary. Salmon are seined from the river between the racks and are placed in holding tanks pending spawning. Fig. 9. Seining for salmon at the Klamathon spawning station, November 13, 1922. Photograph by A. S. Cheney. operations. In spawning trout the eggs are stripped from the female and the fish is returned to the stream, but in spawning salmon, the fish is first killed and then cut open and the eggs secured. This is possible in that the fish habitually die after spawning. Being still useful for food, the spawned salmon are given to residents, who are glad to smoke or cure them. In some states these spawned salmon are dried and utilized as fish food at the state hatcheries. Investigations by the Commission have shown the average yield of the Klamath River king salmon to be 3891 eggs, the larger fish furnish- ing five to eight thousand eggs, and the smaller ones two to five thou- sand eggs. The yield of eggs in the Sacramento salmon appears to be greater. To secure the twenty millions of salmon eggs taken during the 1922 season, it was therefore necessary to catch over 5200 ripe. Pl
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