SALMON, AMERICA’S MOST VALUABLE FISH 
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Photograph by Shirley C. Hulse 
FERTILIZING THE SALMON EGGS: OREGON 
It sometimes requires two men to handle a large buck. As soon as the “milt” is in the pan with the 
eggs, a little water is added and the whole stirred until the mass of eggs is thoroughly impregnated. 
cerned in the perpetuation of the sal¬ 
mon supply, and are willing to meet the 
government half way in inaugurating 
and enforcing measures for the preven¬ 
tion of overfishing or other destructive 
methods. 
One of the most novel and interesting 
pieces of work conducted by the Bureau 
of Fisheries in connection with the ad¬ 
ministration of the Alaska salmon fish¬ 
eries is the taking of a census of the 
spawning salmon moving up one of the 
principal streams in the territory. The 
results and the purport of this effort are 
most important, and a brief account is 
not out of place here. 
Since 1907 Nushagak and Wood rivers, 
which flow into Nushagak Bay, in west¬ 
ern Alaska, have been closed to commer¬ 
cial fishing by virtue of the power con¬ 
ferred by law on the Secretary of Com¬ 
merce. In 1908, through the liberal 
cooperation of two salmon companies 
operating in the region, the Bureau at 
