XCIV REPORT OF COMMISSIONER OF FISH AND FISHERIES. 



dip nets on an island under the falls. From this source 209 were 

 secured — 153 females and 56 males. 



The fish from the island, taken in dip nets, were in much better 

 condition than those from the wheel. A few were also secured from 

 gill nets, but they soon died from injuries. The loss on the hsh held 

 in live-boxes was considerable, though every possible effort was made 

 to keep them alive until ripe. 



Eggs were obtained from 160 females, the first being taken on April 

 28 and the last on May 24. The total collection amounted to 393,000, of 

 which only 107,000 develo[)ed to the eyed stage. These were shipped 

 as follows: 93,000 to Duluth, 15,000 to Bozeman, 21,000 to the Connec- 

 ticut Fish Commission, and 30,000 to iSTorthville. The remaining 8,000 

 were hatched and transferred 16 Clackamas, where they were liberated 

 in Clear Creek. 



In addition to these, 3,501 steelhead eggs were received from Salmon 

 Elver, which produced 625 fry. These were planted with the other lot. 



Upper Clackamas Station, Oregon. 



Early in the spring airangements were made to have a rack across 

 the Clackamas and one across Oak Grove built by contract. They 

 were finished by the last of May, so as to prevent any salmon passing 

 above the station. On July 1 men were employed to put the apparatus 

 in order for the season's work. Operations were conducted on sub- 

 stantially the same lines as in previous years, except that a water 

 wheel was made and placed in the river to furnish water to some of the 

 temporary hatching-troughs on the river bank. This wheel was built 

 upon a raft anchored at the head of a riffle, and was so arranged that 

 the water in the rivet would revolve the wheel. Buckets fastened to 

 the rim of the wheel raised the water and emptied it into a liume, from 

 which it was conveyed to the hatching-troughs. The regular water 

 supply to the hatchery failed early in the season on account of dry 

 weather, but as the wheel furnished an ample supi^ly for the troughs, 

 no inconvenience resulted. 



The first eggs were collected July 19 and the last on August 29. 

 During this period 675 females were stripped, yielding 3,421,000 eggs, 

 from which 2,930,000 fry were hatched and planted in October, November, 

 and December in the headwaters of the Clackamas River. 



The station was closed in December, and put in charge of a custo- 

 dian, and on April 1 it was turned over to the State Fish Commission. 



Salmon River Station, Oregon. 



Arrangements were made in the spring with Thomas Brown to furnish 

 the Commission all the salmon eggs collected by him on this river at 

 the rate of 40 cents per 1,000, eyed. The rack was built early in June, 

 before any salmon ascended the stream, and in the first part of the 

 summer the prospects for a good season's work seemed bright, as many 



