Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1886-04-05
THE FISH COMMISSION.
The Chinaman and the Dam Build er
DEFY all Fish Lava

DeIy ali Fish Laws.
The State Board of Fish Commissioners
met at their Office in the Union Hotel in
this city on Saturday last, at P. NJ. Pres
ent, Messrs. Buckingham and Dibble.
Commissioner Sherwood was absent owing
to sickness in his family.
Secretary Dibble stated that t. B. Saund-
ers had been appointed Deputy Fish Com
missioner OF Lassen county, and fully in
structed as to the duties of his office.
a contract was entered into with Ii.
Woodson, OF Alturas, Modoc county, for
lUO,OO0 trout eggs from Lake Annie. de-
lVered al the state hatchery for 81 % per
thousand.
Letters were read from George E. Mar
shall and c. f. McGlashan, of Trubkee. in
which they stated that distractions in
Bonner creek and Coldstream kept trout
from ascending TO the spawning ground.
Iney estimated the cost of the removal of
the same at less than $40. Mr.. Marshall
was directed to have the wsrk done.
Several letters asking for Young trout
were received from different portions of tie
State to all of which reply was written.
that the supply was exhausted and that the
trout OF TINS years Matching would not be
ready Tor distribution earlier than August.
llOIll N. y. llllDDell,
OF CISCO says the Eastern trout planted in
the 1uba, near that place, have thriven
well. Three years ago but few Eastern
trout were caught, there being twenty
Iruckee trout TO their one; now they are
nearly all Eastern. The water is cold. and
seems well adapted to the Eastern variety.
Dr. ii. w. Smith, of Placeryille writes
that the South Fork of the American is
tree from obstructions which would pre-
vent hsh from going no stream, except the
Natoma dam. constructed by the Natoma
Dam and Ditch Company. They have not
provided the necessary fish ladders as re-
qulred by law. He asked what was TO be
done about it. Necessary instructions were
forwarded TO Mr.. Smith, with instruction
| that ne place the matter in the hands of
the District Attorney of Ell Dorado county,
Professor Aud. John Walmgrey, head of
the Department of Fisheries of Finland,
writes the California Commission for file
OF their printed reports. The Secretary
sent the documents ask ed for; also copie-
OF the RECoEO-UN MON containing articles
relative to California fish
William T. Jeter, District Attorney of
Santa Cruz county, writes, making COM
plant of the fact that the South Pacific
Coast Railway maintain obstructions in
Boulder creek and San Lorenzo river.
| On the 9th of March Commissioner DID
bic wrote Congressman Morrow as follows:
The people OF California most earnestly
| demand that a law shall be passed at the
| present session of Congress that will in
effect prohibit the expectation of shrimp
| and young fish by Chinese to China. If
such law be passed our citizens will have
land they are entitled to haye) the food of
the waters for themselves, and a most de-
structive vandal occupation will cease. The
off tod II
food IS becoming scarce in California fur
nishes powerful reason why the Chinese
exhaustion should cease and the cause of
the complaint be removed. In this direc-
ton your friends expect active and wise
action. inclose an article published in
! the San Francisco EUeliag Post of March
9th, and commend its consideration"
Under date of March Goth Congressman
VIM. W. Morrow responded as follows
l need not assure you again that what
ever | can do to secure the prohibition of
the expectation of small fish by the Chi
| nese shall be done. We have great diff
Guilty in convincing Congressman from the
East and the Administration that the Chi
nese are not the pleasantest and most de-
slFabie people 10 have in our midst; but
we are working faithfully, and l hope to ac-
complish something at least
Several communications from different
portions of the State were received from
parties, claiming that whole sections of the
country were cut of from their fish supply
by parties who built dams or other obsiruc-
tons in the streams, without constructing
the necessary fish-ways President Buck
lngham said it would seem that fish had
no right in mountain streams, and that
either the District Attorneys did not know
tleir duties, or if they did, wholly ignored
them. He claimed that the law was ex
plicit, and should be enforced. The builder
OF every dam, no matter whether he is
the owner or simply the contractor, who
builds dam without putting in fsh-lad-
ders, should be punished to the full extent
of the law.
The Board adjourned to the first Satur-
day in May.