18 PACIFIC SALMON FISHERIES. 
of 100,000 eggs of the red salmon was forwarded to Seattle, Wash., 
from the station of the Bureau of Fisheries at Yes Bay, Alaska, of 
which 50,000 were reshipped to the Anderson Lake hatchery of the 
British Columbia Fisheries Department, located on the ocean side of 
Vancouver Island. The remaining 50,000 were sent to the Bureau 
of Fisheries hatchery at Quinault Lake, on the coast of Washington. 
The intention was as soon as the fry, hatched from these eggs, had 
developed into fingerlings to mark each lot with a distinctive marking 
and plant them in waters near the hatcheries, with the object of 
proving that the adult fish would return to the stream in which they 
had passed their early existence, no matter where the eggs were 
taken. 
This plan could not be carried out at Anderson Lake, as the young 
fish resulting from the eggs, which were sent there, were not strong 
enough to survive the experiment. They were therefore liberated 
without marking. Those hatched at Quinault Lake were marked, 
however, and liberated in the summer of 1916. Dr. Gilbert has 
strong hopes that upon the return of the marked fish important 
data relating to the life history of the species will be obtained. 
OCEAN HOME OF THE SALMON. 
All sorts of conjectures have been hazarded as to the ocean home of 
the salmon after the-young fish have gone to sea and disappeared ap- 
parently from the ken of man. Many have conjured up visions of 
vast schools of adult salmon sur ging along the coast hundreds of miles 
seeking for some suitable river in which to spawn, explaining in this 
wise the variations in the seasonal runs in different sections. Others 
think the fish go out into the greater depths of the ocean and there hide 
from man until the spawning instinct leads them back to the coast 
and thence to the stream in which they were born. 
Discoveries of recent years have quite altered this uncertainty, and 
we now are reasonably certain that the vast majority of the salmon are 
comparatively near our coast line, while others stay in the bays, 
straits, and sounds virtually all the time when not in the rivers. 
Some years ago it was first noticed that king salmon would take the 
hook while in salt and brackish waters. At first only the anglers were 
interested in this fact, but as the demand for king salmon for mild 
curing became more insistent the commercial fishermen, attracted by 
the high prices paid, began to devote some attention to the fish 
during the early spring months, and soon trolling became a recognized 
branch of the industry. It was first taken up on a considerable scale 
in southeast Alaska in 1905.¢ As the demand for the fish increased, 
the fishermen extended operations until almost all of southeast Alaska 
waters were being fished. The length of the fishing season was also 
@ Report on the fisheries of Alaska. By John N.Cobb. Bureau of Fisheries Document no.618,p. 19-21. 
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