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BULLETIN OF THE UNITED STATES FISH COMMISSION. 
Mr. James Crawford, fish commissioner of Washington, writes as follows: 
I have yet to hear of any Whitehall being caught in any of the waters of the State. I have heard 
of some strange fish having been seen in the waters of Lake Washington, but no one knew what they 
wore. Some whitefish were planted in Lake Lacamas in this (Clarke) county, but, although I have 
made repeated inquiries about them, I could never hear of any having been seen. It may be that 
because whitefish do not take a hook they have never been caught. 
Inquiries by Mr. William Barnum in Idalio in 1895 elicited tlie information from 
several sources that eastern whitefish had been taken in lakes Pend d’Oreille and 
Cceur d’Alene, but the evidence is that the fish in question were of some other species. 
A specimen of supposed eastern whitefish obtained at Cceur d’Alene City, from the 
lake of that name, proved to be Williamson’s whitefish. 
The large, cold, deep lakes of Idaho, in which plants were made, are apparently 
as well adapted to the growth and multiplication of the whitefish as Lake Superior. 
While there may be an abundance of mature whitefish in those waters, their existence 
might be entirely overlooked in the absence of deep-water gill-net fishing and special 
scientific investigation. The inquiries of the Fish Commission representatives in 1894 
and 1895 failed to throw any light on the presence or absence of the eastern whitefish 
in lakes Cceur d’Alene and Pend d’Oreille. 
THE ATLANTIC SALMON. 
The attempt to acclimatize this valuable food and game fish on the Pacific Slope 
was made in 1874, when the “ aquarium car,” in charge of Mr. Livingston Stone, of the 
United States Fish Commission, carried numerous species of eastern fish across the 
continent.* Four hundred and fifty small Atlantic salmon ( Salmo salar) obtained in 
the Penobscot River, Maine, were among the consignments •, of these, 305 survived and 
were deposited, June 12, 1874, in the Sacramento River at Redding. 
In 1890, 200,000 eggs were consigned to the Fish Commission station at Fort 
Gaston, Cal. Of these, 194,000 were successfully hatched, and in May, 1891, the young 
were placed in a pond. Capt. W. E. Dougherty, the superintendent, reports that they 
were fed until about the last of July, when, having attained a very considerable size, 
they were liberated in the Trinity River. 
The deposit of young fish placed in the Sacramento River in 1874 has yielded no 
known results. The fish undoubtedly succumbed to physical causes or were devoured 
by enemies, the planting being entirely too small to warrant the expectation of suc- 
cess. The only reference to the matter subsequent to the planting is contained in 
the report of the California fish commission for 1874-75: 
None of the eastern salmon have been seen since they were placed in the Sacramento River. It 
is hardly expected that they should be as yet, as without doubt they have gone to the ocean, not to 
return until the spring of 1876, when we have to hear of some of them being caught on their return 
for the purpose of spawning. It will be interesting to learn in after years if they will cross with the 
Sacramento salmon and produce a new variety. 
Captain Dougherty states that the salmon planted in 1891 did well, and that some 
of them were subsequently taken by Indians, having reached full size. No other 
report of these fish has been received. 
See Report California Fish Commission, 1874-75. 
