102 REPORT OF STATE BOARD OF FISH COMMISSIONERS. 



ing to run, it was expected that thcso wcnild 1)ecome extinct so far as 

 the stream is concerned. 



The result of this experiment has been disappointment. After twelve 

 years or tnore there has been no increase of red salmon in the stream, 

 and no decrease of humpbacks and other humbler forms of salmon. 

 Mr. Callbreath draws the conclusion that salmon run at a much greater 

 age than has been supposed — perhaps at the age of sixteen years, instead 

 of four. A far more probable conclusion is that the salmon set free by 

 him have joined other bands bound for more suitable streams. It is 

 indeed claimed that since the establishment o'f Callbreath's hatchery 

 on Etolin Island, there has been a notable increase of the salmon j-un in 

 various streams of Prince of Wales Island on the opposite side of 

 Clarence Straits. But this statement, while largely current among the 

 cannery men, and not improbable, needs verification. 



We shall await with much interest the return of the millions of 

 young salmon hatched in 1902, and turned loose in Naha stream. We 

 may venture the prophec}' that while a large percentage will return to 

 Loring, many others will enter Yes Bay, Karta Bay, Moira Sound, and 

 other red salmon waters along the line of their return from Dixon 

 Entrance or the open sea. 



