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m'donald lake 



At the Federal salmon hatchery on McDonald Lake 18,000,000 

 red-salmon finserlings Nos. 1 and 2 were released in May and June 

 and 2,440,000 fin^erlings No. 2 in July from the 24,036,000 eggs taken 

 in 1928. In addition, a shipment of 2,493,000 eyed eggs had been 

 made to Seattle in October, 1928, making the net loss on the total 

 take 4.6 per cent. 



There were 16,095,000 red-salmon eggs collected at this station 

 from September 3 to October 4, 1929, and 2,650,000 pink-salmon eggs 

 from August 27 to September 17. A shipment of 1,021,000 eyed 

 pink-salmon eggs was forwarded to Seattle in October to be delivered 

 to the State hatchery at Auburn, Wash. Also there were 150,000 

 steelhead-trout eggs collected in the spring of 1929, from which 82,000 

 fingerlings No. 2 were produced and released in Lake McDonald in 

 August. 



HUGH SMITH LAKE (QUADRA) 



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

 fry from its hatchery near Boca de Quadra in 1929, hatched from 

 20,310,000 eggs taken in 1928, a loss of 4.8 per cent. Egg collecting 

 in 1929 began on August 12 and ended on November 15, the total take 

 being 11,760,000 red-salmon eggs. This was considerably less than 

 the number usually collected and was due to heavy rains during that 

 period which caused the lake and river to rise to flood proportions 

 and prevented securing sufficient ripe fish for a large egg take. 



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 

 ever}^ 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. 

 In the fiscal year ending June 30, 1929, only one such private salmon 

 hatchery was operated — that of the Northwestern Fisheries Co. at 

 Hugh Smith Lake — and the rebate due on the 19,340,000 red-salmon 

 fry liberated there during the year amounted to $7,736. 



GENERAL STATISTICS OF THE FISHERIES 



The total number of persons engaged in the fisheries of Alaska in 

 1929 was 29,283, or 1,803 less than in 1928. Fishery products were 

 valued at $50,795,819 — a decrease of $3,749,769, or about 7 per cent, 

 from the preceding year. Of the total amount, 83.7 per cent repre- 

 sented the value of salmon products; 8.7 per cent, halibut; 5.5 per 

 cent, herring; and 2.1 per cent, the value of all other fishery products. 



