PACIFIC SALMON FISHERIES 643 



Early in August, 1915, a female humpback salmon 22 K inches long 

 and weighing 4 pounds 3 ounces was taken at the Bangor water- 

 works in the Penobscot River. Shortly after, a male fish of about 

 the same size was taken in this river at Orland Dam. A little later, 

 agents of the bureau captured 20 alive near Bangor, and about 

 3,000 eggs were obtained and fertilized. 



In Dennys River, in Maine, during the period between August 15 

 and September 24, local fishermen caught a number. Since then 

 they have been running regularly each season into certain of these 

 streams. 



The chinook salmon has also been acclimatized in the waters of 

 New Zealand. They were first introduced in 1900, and eggs were 

 imported for six years in succession. A considerable annual run 

 now enters those rivers in which the salmon were planted. 



In 1908 the United States Bureau of Fisheries initiated an effort 

 to establish a run of sockeye salmon in Grandy Creek, a stream in the 

 immediate vicinity of the Birdsview (Wash.) hatchery of the bureau, 

 and one which had not been visited by this species. The first fish, 

 numbering 64,000, were planted in the creek in 1908. Four years 

 afterwards, in September, 1912, the first sockeye salmon entered the 

 hatchery trap in Grandy Creek, and from them 222,000 eggs were 

 secured. In 1916 the water in the creek was too low to permit the 

 ascent of salmon until September 26, when its level was slightly 

 raised by local rains, and a few fish immediately entered it and were 

 taken in the hatchery trap. The eggs secured from the small number 

 available amounted to 24,500. The fish have since continued to run 

 in this stream. 



Ill 1916 L. H. Darwin, commissioner of fish and game for the 

 State of Washington, began an experiment looking to the stocking, 

 with sockeye salmon, of the Samish River, a stream debouching in 

 Puget Sound, and in which this species had not hitherto been found. 

 The parent fish were obtained from traps and transported alive in 

 crates to the Samish State hatchery, where they were held until ripe 

 and then stripped and fertilized. After hatching, the fry were 

 planted in the stream. A few returned in 1920. 



Since then the practice has been followed to some extent in other 

 streams, and the possibility of establishing a run of nonindigenous 

 species of salmon in suitable streams by hatchery plants has been 

 well demonstrated. 



CALIFORNIA 



HISTORY 



The first fish-cultural station on the Pacific coast was located on 

 McCloud River, a stream of the Sierra Nevada Mountains emptying 

 into Pit River, a tributary to the Sacramento, 323 miles nearly due 

 north of San Francisco. The site on the west bank of the river, 

 about 3 miles above the mouth, was chosen after investigation of a 

 number of places on the Sacramento, by Livingston Stone, one of 

 America's pioneer fish culturists, and the station was named Baird, 

 in honor of the then Commissioner of Fisheries, Prof. Spencer F. 

 Baird. Although the season had nearly passed when the station 

 was sufficiently advanced to handle eggs, 50,000 eggs were secured, 

 and while 20,000 were lost, owing to the excessive heat, the remaining 

 30,000 were shipped east, all of which were eventually lost but 7,000 

 fry, which were planted in the Susquehanna River, in Pennsylvania. 



