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A shipment of 60,000 eastern brook-trout eggs was received from 

 Seattle for incubation. Of the 35,000 fry hatched therefrom, 5,800 

 fingerhngs No. 3 were shipped in September and 7,357 fingerlings 

 No. 4 in October, 1927, to Juneau for planting in Auk Lake. 



Egg taking in 1927 began on September 5 and ended on October 

 6, with a total take of 20,240,000 red-salmon eggs. One thousand 

 one hundred and thirty predatory fish, almost entirely Dolly Varden 

 trout, were destroyed during the season. 



HECKMAN LAKE (FORTMANN) 



The Alaska Packers Association liberated 18,830,384 red-salmon 

 fry from its Fortmann hatchery on Heckman Lake in 1927, which 

 were hatched from 21,420,000 eggs taken in 1926, a loss of 12.1 per 

 cent. In addition, 2,490,000 humpback-salmon fry hatched from 

 2,640,000 eggs collected in 1926 were released in November and 

 December of that year. It is contemplated that no further operations 

 are to be carried on at this hatchery. 



HUGH SMITH LAKE (QUADRA) 



The Northwestern Fisheries Co. liberated 19,340,000 red-salmon 

 fry from its hatchery near Boca de Quadra in 1927, hatched from 

 20,000,000 eggs taken in 1926, a loss of 3.3 per cent. In 1927 the 

 take of red-salmon eggs was 20,240,000. 



TERRITORIAL HATCHERIES 



In accordance with legislation passed at the eighth regular session 

 of the Territorial Legislature, the operation of fish hatcheries by the 

 Territory of Alaska has been discontinued, the work carried on in 

 1927 consistmg only of handling the eggs collected in the preceding 

 year and the fry hatched therefrom. Information in regard to the 

 termmating work of the Territorial Fish Commission and subsequent 

 operations at the Ketchikan hatchery during the year has been 

 furnished through the office of the Governor of Alaska and from other 

 sources, as follows: 



At the Ketchikan hatchery 1,524,000 humpback-salmon fry were 

 liberated from 1,660,000 eggs — 574,000 in the hatchery creek, free 

 swimming, and 950,000 to the salt-water feeding pond at Duke 

 Island, where 33,720 were marked before liberating. 



Accidental shutting oft' of the water supply caused the loss of 

 200,000 chum-salmon fry of the 425,000 hatched from 451,000 eggs 

 collected in 1926 at Ward Cove. The remaining 225,000 fry were 

 liberated free swimming in Hatchery Creek. 



Of the fry hatched from 3,337,760 red-salmon eggs (of which 1,620,- 

 000 were received green from Quadra and Ward Cove and 1,717,760 

 in the eyed stage from Yes Bay), 2,625,000 fingerlings were released 

 in Hatchery Creek and about 400,000 were held for feeding. 



Of the fry hatched from 2,000,000 king-salmon eggs received from 

 the State of Washington, 1,819,000 fingerlings were released in 

 Hatchery Creek, 50,000 being marked before liberating. 



On March 9, 1927, fire destro3^ed the Seward hatchery, together 

 w^th all stock on hand, representing 3,164,000 red-salmon eggs and 

 56,000 humpback-salmon eggs partly hatched. 



