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'employees of the Department operated fyke-net at the out- 

 let of the lake at the time the yearling sockeye were expect- 

 ed to migrate to salt water. A number of well proportioned 

 sockeye yearlings were captured and specimens forwarded 

 to the Department. These yearlings undoubtedly were the 

 result of e^^ planting as, owing to that impassable obstruc- 

 tion. Stamp Falls, no returning parent fish of this variety 

 were ever known to reach Great Central Lake. 



The Superintendent of the Pitt Lake Hatchery reports 

 that in January, 1922, he made two plantings of eyed 

 sockeye eggs in one of the retaining ponds operated in con- 

 nection with that station, each planting containing 1,000 

 eggs. An accurate count showed that the number of fry 

 emerging from these plantings was 1940, indicating a loss of 

 only 60 from the 2,000 eggs deposited. 



Other successful experiments might be cited but those 

 described above are sufficient to prove that this system has 

 an important place in future fish cultural operations. 



The advantages to be derived from this method are 

 apparent to every fish culturist whose work is carried on in 

 a thinly populated country where means of transportation 

 are still of a very primitive nature. One man can carry an 

 e^^ planting box lashed to a Yukon pack board; a second 

 can carry 100,000 eggs, and one or two others the shovels, 

 and so work their way up or down salmon rivers or creeks, 

 planting a tray here and a tray there — wherever conditions 

 are suitable. A wide distribution can thus be made. This 

 work has been done in this Province in the late fall as well 

 as in the early spring when the rivers first open and the 

 planting team have had to work from stream to stream on 

 snow-shoes. It has been carried on from a fishery patrol 

 boat travelling from cove to cove up the north coast stopping 

 at the nearest point to many of the innumerable short 

 spawning streams. In the latter case the team with extra 

 men to carry whatever additional boxes containing eggs 

 ~were needed, left the boat at dawn, pushed inland to pre- 

 viously selected spawning grounds, and were back to the 

 T^oat by night. Eyed eggs properly cared for, have been 

 held on board the boat in shipping boxes for one month 

 without any loss whatever, so that scores of miles of coast 

 line can, and have been covered in a single cruise. 



These plantings along the coast can be made at whatever 

 time during the winter or spring the eggs are at the required 

 stage of development, but those made in the interior of this 

 Province, where severe winter conditions prevail, must be 

 completed either before the freeze-up or as soon as the 

 streams are open in the early spring. In the case of fall 



