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all license fees and taxation of every nature on their catch and pack 

 of salmon at the rate of 40 cents per 1,000 kin<j or red salmon liber- 

 ated in Alaskan waters. 



Rebates credited to private salmon hatcheries, fiscal year ended June 30, 1923 



HATCHERY OPERATIONS 



M DONALD LAKE 



The Federal salmon hatchery at McDonald Lake produced and 

 liberated 24,099,045 red-salmon fry from the collection of 25,000,000 

 eggs made in 1922, a loss of 3.G per cent. It also liberated 393,600 

 humpback-salmon fry resulting from the collection of 499,200 eggs 

 made in the same year. In 1923 a collection of 25,550,000 red-salmon 

 eggs was made at this station. 



AFOGNAK 



In 1922 red-salmon eggs aggregating 61,790.000 were taken at the 

 Afognak hatchery. Of these 10,678.400 were shipped to State 

 and Territorial hatcheries and 46,333,000 fry and fingerlings were 

 hatched and planted in Afognak Lake. Out of the 600,000 hump- 

 back-salmon eggs taken at this station in the same season 278,616 

 were transferred to the bureau's hatchery at Birdsview, Wash., 

 and 240,000 fingerlings were produced and released at the Afognak 

 hatchery. The loss during incubation was 81,384. 



HECKMAN LAKE (FOETMANX) 



The collection of salmon eggs at the Fortmann hatchery of the 

 Alaska Packers Association on Heckman Lake in 1923 began 

 September 4 and ended November 24. In that period 15,480,000 red- 

 salmon eggs and 1,200,000 humpback-salmon eggs were taken. 



From the collection of 17,760,000 red-salmon eggs secured in 1922 

 there were hatched and released in Heckman Lake and X aha Stream 

 16,985,000 fry. The loss was 775,000, or 4.36 per cent. In the same 

 season 220,000 humpback-salmon fry were produced from a take of 

 240,000 eggs, the loss being approximately 8 per cent. 



HLGH SMITH LAKE (QUADRA) 



The Northwestern Fisheries Co. operated a salmon hatchery on 

 Hugh Smith Lake on the mainland of Alaska near Boca de Quadra. 

 In 1923 egg collecting began on August 12 and stopped November 7. 

 A total of 17,885,000 red-salmon eggs was obtained, which is an 



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