REPORT ON THE PROPAGATION AND DISTRIBUTION OF 
FOOD-FISHES. 
By W. bE C. RaAVENEL, Assistant in Charge. 
PROPAGATION OF FOOD-FISHES. 
The year’s work included the propagation of 32 species of fish and 
1 crustacean, and resulted in planting 1,173,853,462 fish and eggs in 
public and private waters. Operations were conducted on the same 
general lines as in the past, attention being chiefly directed to keeping 
up the supply of salmon, shad, white-fish, lake trout, lake herring, pike 
perch, and other fresh-water fishes, in addition to such important 
species as the cad, flat-fish, and lobster. 
On the Pacific coast the propagation of quinnat salmon was con- 
ducted at stations located on tributaries of the Sacramento River in 
California, on the Rogue River in Oregon, tributaries of the Columbia 
River in Washington and Oregon, and resulted in the collection of 
over 23,000,000 eggs. Though the run of salmon on the Sacramento 
was above the average, the number reaching the headwaters and 
entering McCloud River and Battle Creek at the points where the sta- 
tions were located was small. At Baird station 2,139,000 eggs were 
secured, and at Battle Creek 3,520,000. The fry hatched from these 
were held for several months and fed before they were planted. On 
the Rogue River 3,303,000 eggs were secured, from which 1,850,000 
young fish were planted at the headwaters of the river and 1,000,000 
near its mouth, at Wedderburn. When liberated they were from 2 to 
5 inches long, having been fed for several months on canned salmon. 
For the purpose of maintaining the supply in the Columbia River 
Basin stations were operated on the Little and Big White Salmon 
rivers, in Washington, and on the Clackamas River, near Oregon City, 
Oreg., the work at these points resulting in the collection of more than 
14,000,000 eggs and the planting of 10,500,000 young fish between 
Portland, Oreg., and the Cascades. 
At the request of the New Zealand Government, a shipment of 
500,000 quinnat-salmon eggs was sent to Littleton, New Zealand, 
under the care of Mr. G. H. Lambson, superintendent of Baird station. 
Though the eggs were en route 31 days, and were carried over 7,000 
miles, they reached their destination with a loss of only 57,500. 
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