144 THE OREGON SPORTSMAN 



and when they were planted they were well able to care for 

 themselves. This lake, like so many others in our New England 

 states, was well stocked with pickerel and perch and there were 

 so many of these fish that doubt was freely expressed that the 

 salmon would all be eaten up before they had a chance to grow. 



The acme of all fishing is salmon fishing and it is a sport 

 that has been enjoyed by only a very few people during the past 

 fifty years. In recent years, one in order to secure any sport 

 of this kind had to have a fat pocketbook and lots of leisure 

 time. In the early history of New England, most of the large 

 rivers' were noted as salmon rivers and the salmon ascended the 

 rivers every year to lay their spawn in fresh water, but since 

 the rivers have been dammed to make power, the fish have been 

 unable to ascend and it was only a few years after the dams 

 were built when our salmon were all gone. 



Since the salmon stopped running up the rivers very few 

 people have had a chance to get th.em and there are but a few 

 lakes and streams in all New England where salmon can be 

 taken today. So scarce have these fish become that many men 

 spend large sums of money each year to go to lakes in Maine, 

 New Brunswick, Nova Scotia and Newfoundland. It is no won- 

 der then that much interest has been displayed by sportsmen, 

 all over the country in the experiments that have been carried 

 on with the Pacific salmon known as Chinook salmon, in our 

 lakes of New England. 



There has never been a fish introduced into our eastern 

 waters that has appealed to our sportsmen as much as has this 

 species of salmon and when it is known that the government is 

 in ai position to furnish millions of these eggs from the fall run 

 of Chinook salmon without injury to the commercial interests 

 and by taking eggs that will not be otherwise used it is no won- 

 der that our people are interested in having the eggs sent to 

 New England. No activity of the Bureau of Fisheries has been 

 more successful from the angler's point of view than has the 

 work done with these salmon. 



