American Fisheries Society. IT)!) 



Mr. P>ryant : I would like to ask if the salmon dies after it 

 deposits its et^'^s : they run U]) in such immense numhers. what 

 becomes of them ? 



Mr. O'^lalley : Near llaker. Washington, where the salmon 

 die, the\- are disi)Osed of hy the bears eatiuij; them 



Mr. Hubbard: I think it will be found in all spawninj^ 

 streams that after the salmon s])awnin,q' season is (»\er the river 

 and shores are full of dead salmon, and you can smell them for a 

 long" ways. A great many of them tloat off and sink in the eddys, 

 but it has been proven, I think, that tliey die after spawning. 



The President : 1 will in(juire if there is any exception in the 

 salmon of the Pacific coast, any varieties that do not die after 

 spawning? 



^Ir. Hubbard : Well, the steelheads do not die after spawn- 

 ing. 



yir. Ravenel : Jt has l)een a prolific source of discussion for 

 A ntmiber of years, and a great many have been very skeptical 

 about the salmon dying after depositing their spawn. Some have 

 attributed it to the hardships they had to go through. Put iii 

 Alaska, in the little mountain streams, the salmon at the head- 

 waters are in as bad condition as those taken five hundred or a 

 thousand miles up the Snake river. A captain of engineers was 

 sent out and instructed to make a report on the Portland canal, 

 and he found a little stream a quarter of a mile up in the moun- 

 tains where the salmon were so weak they could hardly work 

 their way up, and there were just as many wounded and dying 

 salmon there as in the upper waters of the Sacramento or Colum- 

 bia. It wasn't the distance they had gone, but their condition. 



Dr. James : That is not a strong point, because the streams 

 are very rapid and there is a great deal O'f exertion before the sal- 

 mon gets up to where it wants to go. The streams flow so rap- 

 idly that the fish are swimming up for a long time, and it is easy 

 to see how thv get exhausted— that is, from the time they enter 

 the stream until they spawn, and that, I think, is an injury. 



The President: He was proving to you that in the streams 

 that are not anv longer than from the coast out to that shore the 



