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imperfect impregnation. Eggs of widely different degrees of 
development were found, indicating that the place had previ- 
ously been used for spawning purposes by other fish, or that 
they had been carried down stream from above, the former prob- 
ably being the case. No indications of mating or pairing were 
noticed, the female spawning with any male that appeared upon 
the scene at the time, and the males running from one bed to 
another and spawning with several females. The males will 
fight off others that come around the spawning bed, but while 
he is chasing them another male will frequently spawn with her. 
If a female was driven from the nest she moved off a few yards 
and spawned in another place without making a nest, but as soon 
as we moved away returned to the original place. An employee 
of Battle Creek station states he has found eggs under two feet 
of gravel, all dead of course. This depth of gravel was doubtless 
due to high water though some of it may have been deposited 
by spawning fish. 
The number of fry hatched from the eggs thus deposited 
is believed to be not over two: percent.” 
EXPERIMENTS IN TRANSPORTING EGGS. 
In connection with the Craig Brook Station, Maine, Super- 
intendent Atkins conducted some experiments in the transporta- 
tion of salmon eggs long distances in a critical stage of devel- 
opment. At Sebee Lake eggs of the landlocked salmon to the 
number of 10,000, varying in age from 6 days to 21 days, were 
packed upon wire hatching trays on which they were resting 
in the hatchery, by padding them between the trays and around 
them with moss so as to prevent jars, and in this way they were 
brought safely through to Craig Brook. 
In January 1995, in a shipment of salmon eggs to the upper 
Penobscot, several shallow boxes were filled with eggs in masses, 
lying at least four deep, and no bad results followed. In one 
instance, such a mass of eggs lay at the bottom of the package 
and became frozen on the way, the bottom not being as well pro- 
tected as the top and sides. Enough water had settled in among 
them to form a little cake of ice, in which the eggs were imbed- 
ded; such a cake of ice was kept by itself, and as it thawed it 
released 65 eggs. These finally hatched, every one of them, and 
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