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cent. In addition, 4,183,000 humpback-salmon fry hatched from 
eggs collected in 1925 were released. In 1926 egg taking began on 
August 24 and ended on November 18, during which time 21,420,000 
red-salmon eggs and 6,640,000 humpback-salmon eggs were taken. 
Notification has been given by the company that after the fry hatched 
from these eggs are released in 1927 the hatchery will be closed. 
HUGH SMITH LAKE (QUADRA) 
The Northwestern Fisheries Co. liberated 19,345,000 red-salmon 
fry from its hatchery near Boca de Quadra in 1926, hatched from 
20,240,000 eggs taken in 1925, a loss of 4 per cent. In 1926 the take 
of eggs was 20,000,000. 
TERRITORIAL HATCHERIES 
Under date of December 3, 1926, Edwin Wentworth, superintendent 
of hatcheries for the Alaska Territorial Fish Commission, submitted 
the following summary of operations at stations in 1926: 
At Ketchikan hatchery 9,729,000 humpback-salmon fry were liberated from 
11,415,000 eggs—5,479,000 in the hatchery creek, free-swimming, and 4,250,000 
to Ponds Bay salt-water feeding pond, where 31,470 were marked the latter 
part of July before liberating. 
Of the 2,000,000 eyed chinook eggs received from the State of Washington, 
1,789,000 fingerlings were liberated, ranging from 21% to 6 inches in length. 
About 100,000 sockeye fingerlings, hatched from 165,000 eggs, are still being 
held and fed, and at this time some of them will measure 5 inches in length. 
Of 265,000 chum-salmon fry hatched from 320,000 eggs 65,000 were liberated 
in Hatchery Creek and 200,000 were taken to the Ponds Bay salt-water feeding 
pond. 
Following is a record of the eggs collected and received at the Ketchikan 
hatchery in the season of 1926: 
Sockeye greenieges: trom! Quadras == 2 2 ee ee 1, 320, 000 
Sockeye. sreenvecgsiitrom Wards Cove= 2 == — === eee 300, 000 
Sockeye:\eyed ieces from! Ves (Bay ==) = ee ee eee ntl vei) 
Elum pbackemereenvecon efrOrmimmyyl LG nC OVC = ae eee 150, 000 
Humpback wereen egos from buckys COVes= == 2s a eee 1, 510, 000 
Chinook, eyed eggs from~- State of. Washington—___—=__ = 2000000 
At Cordova the sockeye-salmon fry were planted in ponds during March, 
1926; 7,300,000 of these fry were fed in ponds until liberated, the last being 
liberated early in November.’ There were no eggs collected at the Cordova 
station this year. 
At the Seward hatchery the sockeye-salmon fry from the 4,460,544 eggs 
taken in 1925 were held and fed in inclosures in Grouse Lake and liberated 
on July 14, the number being 4,085,727. In 1926 there were collected at the 
Seward hatchery 3,164,000 sockeye eggs. The number of trout destroyed 
at the two traps near Seward totaled 3,717. At the Grouse Lake trap 472 
sockeye salmon passed through, and at the Bear Lake trap, 7,308. At Robe 
Lake stream trap 11,789 sockeye salmon were tallied through and 26,029 trout 
destroyed. : 
HATCHERY REBATES 
The owners of private salmon hatcheries in Alaska, who are also 
packers of canned salmon, receive a rebate on license fees and taxes 
of every nature on their catch and pack of salmon at the rate of 40 
cents per 1,000 king or red salmon fry liberated by them in Alaskan 
waters. 
