248 U. S. BUREAU OF FISHERIES. 
In 1892 Capt. John C. Callbreath, manager of the Point Ellis 
cannery on Kuiu Island, operated a small hatchery on the left bank 
of Kutlakoo stream. It was a very primitive place, and an excep- 
tionally high tide destroyed the whole plant in September. It was 
never rebuilt. 
Capt. Callbreath, however, after seeing to the operation of the 
hatchery, had returned to Wrangell during the summer, where his 
attention was again attracted to hatchery work, and in the fall of 
1892 he built a small hatchery on Jadjeska stream, Etolin Island, 
about 200 yards from its mouth. The stream is about one-half mile 
in length and is the outlet of a small lake. Finding the location 
unsuitable, Capt. Callbreath removed the hatchery in 1893 to the 
northern side of the lake, about three-eighths of a mile from the head 
of the outlet, where it still stands. The owner’s intention was to 
build up a stream which had a small natural run of red salmon until 
i: had a large run, with the hope that the Government would then 
give him the exclusive right to take these fish from the stream for 
commercial purposes. The experiment was kept up until the end of 
the season of 1905, when Capt. Callbreath’s failing eyesight compelled 
the cessation of the actual hatching. Until 1910 a man was stationed 
on the stream during the run of spawning fish for the purpose of lft- 
ing them over the dam, so that they could reach the spawning beds 
at the head of the lake, and the project was abandoned entirely 
shortly thereafter. The owner’s expectation of a big run as a result 
of hatching operations was never realized. 
In 1896 the Baranof Packing Co., which operated a cannery on 
Redfish Bay, on the western coast of Baranof Island, built a small 
hatchery on the lake at the head of Redfish stream. The following 
winter was so cold that not only the flume but the whole cataract 
froze solid, and as the hatchery was thus left without water the eggs 
were put into the lake and left to their fate and the hatchery closed 
down permanently. 
In 1897 the North Pacific Trading & Packing Co., at Klawak, 
Prince of Wales Island, established a hatchery near the head of 
Klawak stream, close to Klawak Lake. In 1898 the plant was moved 
to the mouth of a small stream entering the lake about halfway up 
the western shore. This hatchery was operated continuously until 
the end of 1917, since when it has been shut down. In 1909 the 
North Alaska Salmon Co. acquired a half interest in it, which it 
relinquished to the original owners a few years later. 
The Pacific Steam Whaling Co. in 1898 erected a small hatchery 
on Hetta Lake, on the west side of Prince of Wales Island, which 
was operated until the close of the hatching season of 1903-4, when 
the Pacific Packing & Navigation Co., successor to the original 
owner, went into the hands of a receiver. In 1907 it was reopened 
by the Northwestern Fisheries Co., which had acquired the interests 
of the old company, and has been operated each season since, with — 
the exception of 1919. 
Up to 1900 the work of hatching salmon was entirely voluntary 
on the part of the packers. On May 2 of that year the following 
regulation was promulgated at the Treasury Department, which at 
that time had control of the Alaska salmon-inspection service: 
7. Each person, company, or corporation taking salmon in Alaskan waters shall 
establish and conduct, at or near the fisheries operated by him or them, a suitable 
