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Mr. Henry O'Malley, of Washington: In the waters about Puget 

 Sound, we find the humpback and dog salmon spawning at no great 

 distance up the rivers. In fact, a great many dog salmon spawn in 

 brackish water and run out into salt water, just the same as the others. 



Mr. E. W. Cobb, of Minnesota: We have heard considerable about the 

 great results obtained from the introduction of salmon into the fresh 

 water lakes of the east. Do all of these die in the same way? 



Mr. Geo. H. Graham, of Massachusetts: Mr. President, I feel that 

 we have not experimented long enough with these fish to answer the 

 question fully. The Chinook salmon were introduced into Lake Sunapee 

 in 1904. The eggs were hatched out and the fry planted when small, 

 during the summer, when the lake was alive with black bass. I believe 

 very few of those salmon lived, but in three or four years, they began 

 to catch them, weighing up to six and eight pounds. About 1909 or 

 1910, another lot was planted in the fall after the bass had gone into 

 winter quarters. The next year two thousand were caught, and the 

 year after that five thousand. Several specimens weighing fourteen 

 to sixteen pounds and one between eighteen and twenty pounds have, 

 been taken. 



There have been several reports of single dead salmon taken in Lake 

 Sunapee. I think this is to be accounted for by fish breaking away in 

 an injured condition from anglers. T maintain that if all died after 

 they became mature, we should find hundreds of these salmon around the 

 lake every season. 



Now, as to rate of growth, the Massachusetts Commission, in 1912, 

 planted ten thousand of these salmon in Lake Quinsigamond, near 

 Worcester, with a screen at the outlet. Eighteen months from the 

 time those fish were planted, we began to catch them, and six to eight 

 hundred salmon were taken, running from a pound and a half up to 

 five pounds. That was all gained in eighteen months, for there were no 

 salmon there before. Two hundred were taken the first day of [ho 

 open season this year, 1915. We intend to experiment with these fish, 

 because we know when they were planted, and we believe that we 

 will find out in three or four years just what these fish are doing in 

 fresh water. We know already that they have been very successful 

 from the standpoint of the sportsman. They grow rapidly, they are fine 

 fish to eat, and there is no more gamey fish in the whole country. We 

 can see very little difference between the chinook salmon in fresh water 

 lakes and the Atlantic salmon or Sebago salmon. 



Mr. Henry O'Malley, of Washington: Some years ago I took five 

 hundred fingerlings of the chinook salmon and was curious to know 

 what would become of them if held in the same water that the adult 

 salmon naturally frequented for spawning. The fish were held in a 

 pond and a large percentage of the males became mature as yearlings. 

 The milt was used with perfect success to fertilize eggs from river 

 salmon. These young matured salmon died in the pond. Some died at 

 the end of the second year and the balance were nearly gone at the end 

 of the third year. None of them lived to be four years old. 



Mr. Graham: A year ago at Lake Sunapee, N. H., I found one 

 male salmon, weighing five and a half pounds. As the milt was coming 

 out of the fish, I shipped it to Dr. Tarleton H. Bean, who examined 

 it and found it to be a mature fish three vears old. 



