196 American Fisheries Society. 



A?:ain on January 30th two plantings of eyed eggs — 500 

 each — were made in the same creek, which produced : 



Planting No. 1 482 fry. 



Planting No. 2 463 " 



In 1922 the Superintendent of the Rivers Inlet Hatchery 

 made five plantings each containing 500 carefully counted 

 eyed sockeye eggs. He reports as follows : 



"In the first pond the gravel was coarse and the eggs 

 planted about six inches deep. Three hundred and eighty- 

 seven fry came out of the gravel. 



In the second pond the gravel was finer and the eggs 

 planted about 6 inches deep. One hundred and thirty- 

 seven fry were counted. 



In the third pond the gravel was about the same as in 

 the second pond and the eggs planted about 2" deep. Four 

 hundred and ninety fry were counted. 



In the fourth pond the gravel was very fine, practically 

 all sand and the eggs were planted about 2" deep. A small 

 hole was found in the screening so no doubt some fry es- 

 caped. Two hundred and thirty-seven fry were counted. 



In the fifth pond the gravel was very fine and the eggs 

 were planted 8" deep. Only 7 fry made their way out of the 

 gravel. These seven were much larger and stronger than the 

 fry hatched in the baskets in the hatchery or the fry that 

 came out of the gravel in the other four plantings. Appar- 

 ently only the very strongest fry were able to make their 

 way out of the very fine gravel when planted that deep. 



In plantings of this nature the eggs and fry do not have 

 the same advantages as they would if not screened and in a 

 creek bed. The screening around the plantings gets clogged 

 up and prevents not only the surface water but also the 

 circulation of water through the gravel, which no doubt is a 

 great help to the fry when they are trying to make their 

 way to the surface." 



The SuDerintendent of the Anderson Lake Hatchery, 

 Vancouver Island, reports that he made four plantings each 

 containing 500 eyed sockeye eggs and the resultant fry, 

 accurately counted, were as follows : 

 No. 1 planting 487 fry. 



No. 2 " 475 " 



No. 3 " 455 " 



No. 4 " 448 " 



In 1922 about two million sockeye eggs were planted in 

 Great Central Lake, Vancouver Island, and during the 

 summer of the same year large schools of fry were observed 

 in these waters by residents in the locality. Early this spring 



