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ERNEST 0. SALO 

 we had one color duplicated in Elliott Bay and duplicated 

 with a color we released in Everett Bay, but we also had 

 separate colors--but an additional 50 or 60 of these marks 

 were recovered 10 days later in Elliott Bay. They showed 

 a definite tendency to move out of Everett Bay very rapidly 

 and go into Elliott Bay. 



Incidentally, some of the fish that we 

 released in Bellingharo Bay were found in Elliott Bay. 

 There is a complicating factor there. That is, that the 

 fish marked at the Kendall Creek Hatchery, the May Creek 

 Hatchery and Green River Hatchery were all Green River 

 stock, either originally or directly. Our work on adult 

 Chinook have shown much the same thing. Like a ball of 

 string unwinding, when the fish come back they tend to 

 school in Elliott Bay, then head off to the various tribu- 

 taries. I personally believe a large portion of the chinook 

 found on the east side of Puget Sound is of Green River 

 stock originally, and how long they maintain these habits 

 I don ' t know . 



But I just wanted to emphasize that in 

 Elliott Bay the fish linger for a long time, apparently 

 thrive, in Everett Bay they migrate through to Elliott 

 Bay, at least the chinook, and in Bellingham Bay they have 

 a tendency to remain for a much longer period of time, as 



