As before stated, the only noticeable movement c. 

 MOVEMENT stream was the occasional movement of individuals drop- 

 DOWN ping from one resting place to^ another. During the first 



STREAM. three weeks after planting, the water in the streams was 

 high and muddy, and, except in Hatchery Creek, good 

 observations could not be made. It was only a matter of a couple of 

 days until most of the salmon had dropped down out of the upper 

 Hatchery Creek. If there was a similar movement of the young salmon 

 in the other streams during the first few days I do not know; but when 

 the first seining was done, a month after planting, the fry were found 

 more abundant in tide water than in the upper streams where they 

 were liberated. There can be no doubt that there was a decided move- 

 ment down stream during the first month, which probably began imme- 

 diately after planting. 



Forty-five days after planting, the fry were found in considerable 

 numbers in brackish water. As this was the first time seining was 

 done in brackish water, we do not know how much sooner they reached 

 this point. We subsequently learned that the fishermen near Marshall, 

 fifteen miles down the bay, caught the young salmon in considerable 

 numbers as early as the last of April, or fifty days after they were 

 liberated. At this time for about a week they caught fifteen or twenty 

 at a haul in their 300-foot nets. After a week they caught only two or 

 three in a haul, and then, as the fish grew scarcer, they caught only two 

 or three in a day's seining. After the middle of June, three months 

 after planting, they caught no more. 



It is unfortunate that we have to rely solely on the fishermen for 

 information as to when the salmon reached salt water. Information 

 obtained in this way cannot usually be relied upon, but the young 

 salmon was a new fish in the bay and the fishermen could not help 

 noticing it. The stories of the different fishermen agree so well that in 

 this case it is safe to rely on them. 



The first seining in the bay was on April 29th, fifty days after plant- 

 ing, on which day we caught one of the young salmon. This was at a 

 place about two miles from the mouth of Paper Mill Creek. The sein- 

 ing was done with a thirty-foot net, and although we seined almost 

 daily in the bay after this and with a fifty-foot net, not another salmon 

 was caught. 



The young salmon were found in brackish water, near the mouth of 

 Paper Mill Creek, up to the llth of May, two months from the time of 

 planting. This date probably marks the end of the run. Those that 

 remained, continued to go out a few at a time, until by the sixth month 

 but very few were left in the streams. After the sixth month no seining 

 was done until the eleventh month, which was after the winter rains. 

 After the most thorough seining at this time only three of the fry could be 

 found, showing that practically all had run out before the end of the year. 



