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kept in an a(|uariuni last fall and all winter, and they arc in the 

 a([uariuni at Taris now, and apparently in as g^ood condition as 

 when taken out of the river. 



Mr. Clark: 1 don't think whitetish eat anything at all after 

 they commence running- up the river. I have never been able to 

 fintl anything- in their stomachs. Mr. Xevin told me last evening 

 that he had found whitefish eggs in the stomach of a whitefish. 

 I never have and I have examined the stomachs of thousands. 



Dr. James: I think starvation is largel_\- the cause of many 

 of the salmon dying. The salmon will go up in great schools, and 

 at the mouth of the more rapidly flowing streams they will ac- 

 cumulate in such numbers that a man can almost walk over them 

 dry-footed; they crowd together in such a wa\' that they injure 

 one another, and there certainly isn't enough food for the num- 

 ber of fish that go there and have to await their turn to get up. 

 Then they have to go up streams wdiere there is a great deal of 

 exertion required, and they must have nutrition in order to get the 

 force to mount those rapidly flowing streams. Then they have 

 the spawning to do, and they have to go back again, and I think 

 starvation enters largely into that. 



]\Ir. Hubbard: In regard to the food supply for the salmon 

 in the streams, I wish to say that the steelheads will go up the 

 same streams as the salmon do, and the steelheads out there 

 are a large fish, 20 or 25 pounds; they go up as the salmon do 

 and return to the ocean. Sometimes at our stations we put tlie 

 racks in early in the spring and we sometimes catcii sonie of 

 those steelheads by that means; those are all returning down 

 the stream and collect on the u])per side of the racks, and I 

 have known them to stay there all sunnner and then go down 

 to the ocean in the fall, but what quinnat salmon go down all 

 die in a few days. 



Mr. Th(3mpson: I would like to ask whether these (|uinnat 

 salmon that are on their way out will take the hook? 



Mr. Hubbard: I have known of a good many being caught 

 with a hook. I don't know whether with a Hv. but vou can't 

 find anything in their stomach, and I think the\- just bite. 



