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U. S. BUREAU OF FISHERIES 



Outpid of Pacific coast salmon hatcheries owned by the United States Bureau of 

 Fisheries, 1872 to 1928— Conimued. 



ACCLIMATIZING PACIFIC SALMON IN OTHER WATERS 



For many years efforts have been made by the United States 

 Bureau of Fisheries and various State fish commissions to introduce 

 Pacific coast salmon in eastern waters. In the early history of fish 

 culture chinook fry were planted in almost every imaginable stream 

 along the Atlantic seaboard, in various streams in the Mississippi 

 Valley, and also in tributaries of the Great Lakes. In most cases, 

 owing to the unsuitability of the water, the experiment was doomed 

 to failure from the start. In the case of a few streams where results 

 might have been obtained, the plantings were at long intervals and 

 the fish were too small to protect themselves, while no effort was 

 made by the State authorities to protect them. 



The most successful results with plants of chinook salmon have 

 been obtained in Lake Sunapee, N. H., where it is now a not uncom- 

 mon thing for anglers to .catch chinook with rod and reel. 



In 1912 about 10,000 chinook fingerlings from Columbia River eggs 

 furnished by the United States Bureau of Fisheries were planted by 

 the Massachusetts Fish Commission in Lake Quinsigamond, and 

 during July, 1914, about 20 months after they were hatched, over 

 600 salmon, according to a member of the commission, were caught, 

 ranging from IK to 5 pounds each. 



Other plants have been made since in Lake Quinsigamond and 

 other lakes and ponds, with fairly satisfactory results. 



The most successful effort in this line was initiated by the United 

 vStates Bureau of Fisheries in the fall of 1913, when it transferred 

 from its hatcheries on the Pacific coast to those in Maine 13,240,000 

 humpback-salmon eggs. These were followed by a second shipment 

 of 7,022,000 eggs in the fall of 1914, a third shipment of about 

 7,000,000 eggs in the fall of 1915, and a few smaller shipments subse- 

 quently. These eggs were hatched out and the fry planted in 

 various selected New England streams where the conditions seemed 

 favorable. 



