GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION OF THE PACIFIC SALMON 
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along the west shore of Honshu Island as far south as the Joganjigawa River. The 
geographic distribution of the Pacific salmon on both the North American and Asiatic 
continents is shown in figures 1, 2, 3, and 4. 
FOREIGN 
In 1872 the United States Commission of Fish and Fisheries, later the United 
States Bureau of Fisheries, established an egg-taking station (Baird Station, Calif.) 
on a tributary of the Sacramento River for the sole purpose of collecting chinook or 
quinnat salmon eggs for transplantation in foreign waters. 2 This station formed 
the source of supply of millions of these eggs which were shipped to the Atlantic 
Coast States and to countries in many parts of the world. With the development of 
the Pacific coast, additional egg-taking stations were established in Oregon and 
Washington by the Bureau of Fisheries. Following 1900, these stations furnished 
eggs and young of the other species of the Pacific salmon that were likewise shipped 
to various parts of the world for transplantation. The introduction of salmon into 
foreign waters was continued actively through 1930. The number, by species of 
eggs and young shipped, and the States and foreign countries receiving them, are 
given by 10-year periods in tables 1 and 2. 3 Only those eggs and young that were 
transplanted in coastal streams for the purpose of developing natural sea-run popu- 
lations are included in these tables. All transplantations in inland waters for the 
establishment of landlocked populations have been omitted. 
Table 1. — Foreign distribution of Pacific salmon eggs and young 
[By 10-year periods, 1872-1930] 
CHINOOK SALMON (0. tschawytscha) 
Localities of distribution 
Periods and number distributed 
Total 
1872-1880 
1881-1890 
1891-1900 
1901-1910 
1911-1920 
1921-1930 
STATES 
Connecticut 
1. 410. 000 
31. 400 
79. 000 
43. 400 
215, 000 
4, 445, 000 
640, 000 
43, 400 
550, 000 
2, S00, 000 
975. 000 
1. 150. 000 
2, 545, 000 
340. 000 
200. 000 
40, 000 
1.270.000 
1, 410, 000 
31, 400 
119.000 
43, 400 
3. 765. 000 
5, 117, 200 
768. 000 
43, 400 
2, 122, 670 
3, 350, 000 
9, 172, 190 
1, 150, 000 
2, 805. 000 
340, 000 
500, 000 
516,820 
1, 322, 000 
1. 058. 000 
150, 000 
1.415.000 
200, 000 
150, 000 
1, 053, 000 
955. 000 
Delaware.- 
Georgia 
40, 000 
Louisiana 
Maine 
3, 450, 000 
10, 000 
400 
100, 000 
Maryland. .. 
500, 000 
22, 500 
117, 500 
139, 700 
Massachusetts. 
10, 100 
Mississippi 
New Hampshire 
50, 000 
550, 000 
50, 000 
567, 960 
184, 710 
720, 000 
New Jersey 
New York 
7. 097, 400 
114, 240 
985, 550 
North Carolina 
Pennsylvania 
150, 000 
100, 000 
10, 000 
Rhode Island 
South Carolina .. 
300, 000 
304, 070 
7,000 
50, 750 
45, 000 
1, 058, 000 
122, 000 
Virginia 
COUNTRIES 
Argentina 
Australia 
100, 000 
915, 000 
50, 000 
500, 000 
Canada 
Chile 
200, 000 
England __ . 
150, 000 
358. 000 
830. 000 
y developmt 
300, 000 
395. 000 
125. 000 
tion see Stor 
Germany 
2 For history of establishment and ear 
,nt of this sta 
ie (1878). 
3 For more detailed information on the data reported in these tables see United States Bureau of Fisheries reports on the prop- 
agation and distribution of food fishes (1871 to 1935). 
