PACIFIC SALMON FISHERIES. 219 
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. 
Other plants have been made since in Lake Quinsigamond and 
other lakes and ponds, with fairly satisfactory results, and the 
ultimate outcome of the experiment is awaited with much interest. 
The most successful effort in 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, a third shipment of about 
7,000,000 eggs in the fall of 1915, and others each year since. These 
eggs were hatched out and the fry planted in various selected New 
England streams where the conditions seemed favorable. 
arly in August, 1915, a female humpback salmon 224 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 thisriver 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 1920 run is being awaited with 
much interest. 
In 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. 
