229 PACIFIC SALMON FISHERIES. 
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 chinooks 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 14 to 5 pounds each. 
The most successful effort m this line was initiated by the United 
States 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, and of a third shipment of about 
7,000,000 eggs in the fall of 1915. These eges were hatched out and 
the fry planted in various selected New England streams 3: whiten the 
conditions seemed favorable. 
Early in August, 1915, a female humpback salmon 224 inches long 
and weighing 4 pouwads, 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 eges were obtained and fertilized. 
_ In Dennys River, in Maine, during the period between August 15 
and September 24, local Goines caught a number. 
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. 
The main object of the hatchery the first few years was to secure 
eggs to ship to the East for the purpose of introducing Pacific salmon 
in the waters in that section. The Commission early made an agree- 
ment with the State of California, however, under which the latter 
