26 ALASKA FISHERIES AND FUR INDUSTRIES IN 1915. 
portions of the body cavity as many as 100 eggs were found, At 
least, part of these eggs would have been saved if they had been taken 
by the method of incision. 
KARLUK. 
The Karluk hatchery is operated by the Alaska Packers Associa- 
tion. It is located about 2 miles up the Karluk River on Kodiak 
Island, in central Alaska, and has a capacity of upward of 50,000,000 
red-salmon eggs. The egg-collecting season of 1914 extended from 
June 27 to September 30, and resulted in a take of 30,240,000 red- 
salmon eggs, from which it was reported that there were liberated 
in 1914, 27,704,000 young fish. The loss of 2,536,000 was 8.3 per 
cent of the total. The fry were liberated im nursery ponds, where 
they were held a short time and fed, after which they were planted 
in the Karluk River. 
The egg-collecting season of 1915 extended from June 26 to Sep- 
tember 29, during which time 41,135,000 eggs were obtained, It is 
reported that the average number of eggs per female spawned was 
2,620, Of the 8,050,000 humpback eggs taken from August 24 to 
September 8, 1914, 5,000,000 eyed eggs were sold to the Bureau of 
Fisheries, and from the remaining eggs 1,049,610 fry were liberated. 
The eyed eggs purchased by the Bureau were transferred to the 
Afognak hatchery where they were included in a shipment of eggs 
the greater part of which was sent to Maine, where an effort is being 
made to establish a run of Pacific salmon in Atlantic waters. 
QUADRA. 
The Quadra hatchery is owned by the Northwestern Fisheries Co., 
and is located at Quadra in southeastern Alaska. It has a capacity 
of about 21,000,000 red-salmon eggs. The season of 1915 at this 
hatchery was not as successful in respect to the number of eggs 
taken as was the previous season. In 1914 egg-taking began on 
August 5, ending October 11, during which period 21,300,000 red- 
salmon eggs were taken, while in the period from August 9 to Novem- 
ber 13, 1915, the total take of red-salmon eggs was 7,500,000. Until 
three years ago this would have been regarded as a very fair take, 
but since that time collections have Beer much larger, with the ex- 
ception of that of 1915. Of the eggs taken in 1914 the total number 
of fry planted in the fecal year ended June 30, 1915, was 20,300,000. 
This makes a loss of 1,000,000 eggs and fry, or 4.6 per cent. The eggs 
at this station are taken iy the improved method of incision, in which 
the females are killed by a blow on the head and an incision is made 
from the pectoral fins to the vent. 
