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the few remaining live eggs were planted in 
Laguna La Grande, as it was deemed impossible 
to reach the Nahuel Huapi hatchery with any 
alive. 
The third shipment was more successful, al¬ 
though far from satisfactory. Early in January, 
1905, one of our superintendents left New York 
with 300,000 brook trout ( Salvelinus fontinalis ) 
eggs, 224,000 lake trout (Cristivomer namaycush ), 
100.000 quinnat salmon ( Oncorhynchus tschazey- 
tscha ), 92,000 rainbow trout (Salmo irideus) and 
30,000 landlock salmon ( Salmo salar sebago), 
arriving in Buenos Aires Feb. 4. On arrival in 
the city, the quinnat salmon eggs were found 
to be practically all dead, while the larger por¬ 
tion of rainbows were either dead or dying. 
Ihe landlocked salmon, brook and lake trout 
were in much better condition, the percentage 
of loss en route having been comparatively 
small. The greater portion of the live eggs 
were taken to the Nahuel Huapi hatchery, where 
they were hatched with fair success. At attempt 
was made, however, to hatch a few landlocked 
salmon, brook and lake trout eggs in a tempo¬ 
rary hatching plant erected at Alta Gracia, in 
the Province of Cordoba. The water to be used 
was from a small mountain stream, it being 
hoped that the weather would be sufficiently 
cold at this time—the latter part of March—to 
reduce the water temperature here to about S3 
degrees F. 
The fourth shipment yielded even better re¬ 
sults than the first. On Feb. 10, 1906, I left 
New York, en route to Argentina via England, 
with 300,000 quinnat salmon ( Oncorhynchus 
tschawytscha) eggs. 122.500 sockeye salmon 
(Oncorhynchus nerka), 98,200 silver salmon {On¬ 
corhynchus kisutch) , 80,000 lake trout ( Cristivomer 
namaycush), 60.000 brook trout ( Salvelinus fonti¬ 
nalis), 30.000 landlocked salmon ( Salmo salar 
sebago), and 25.000 rainbow trout {Salmo irideus). 
At Southampton, England, on Feb. 23, I re¬ 
ceived 25,000 Atlantic salmon {Salmo salar) eggs 
from the Earl of Denbigh’s fisheries in North 
Wales. On March 17 I arrived at Buenos Aires, 
but I was unavoidably delayed here for ten days, 
ihe losses from the time the eggs were packed 
at the hatcheries in the United States and North 
Wales until reshipped on March 27, en route to 
the Santa Cruz hatchery, in southern Argentina, 
were as follows: Quinnat and sockeye salmon, 
1 per cent, each; brook trout and lake trout, 
the same, silver and landlocked salmon, 2 per 
cent, each; Atlantic salmon, only 5 per cent., 
while it was 20 per cent, on one lot of rainbow 
and 60 per cent, on another. From this time 
until all of the eggs were hatched, April 30, the 
losses of eggs and alevins were as follows: 
Quinnat and silver salmon, only 2 per cent.; 
sockeye salmon, 4 per cent.; lake trout and land¬ 
locked salmon, only 5 per cent.; brook trout, 20 
per cent, (mostly fish hatched en route because 
of the delay in Buenos Aires), and Atlantic sal¬ 
mon and rainbow trout, about 50 per cent. 
The Santa Cruz hatchery is supplied with 
water from two springs, which do not run more 
than 125 gallons of water per minute, at a tem¬ 
perature of 48 degrees F. When the shortage 
of this water supply is considered, it is little 
less than remarkable that we were able to hold 
the large numbers of 6-months’ old fish (about 
30,000, the greater number being Pacific Coast 
salmon) which we had on hand Nov. 1, 1906 
(see first table), and have them in perfect state 
of health on this date. In fact, they were as 
healthy as possible on Oct. 1, 1907. one year 
and six months after they were hatched. The 
very low death rate from Nov. 1, 1906, to Oct. 
1, 1907, will be found by referring to the last 
two tables. The water supply of the Santa 
Cruz hatchery decreased greatly during the 
summer of 1907-8 (months of December. Janu¬ 
ary and February), and the fish on hand, show¬ 
ing signs of disease, a number of each species 
were planted during these months. 
On January 18, 1908, the fifth lot of eggs 
brought from the United States to Argentina 
left New York, numbering as follows-: 300,000 
quinnat salmon {Oncorhynchus tschawytscha) , 104,- 
000 sockeye salmon {Oncorhynchus nerka), 90.000 
silver salmon {Oncorhynchus kisutch), 75,000 lake 
trout {Cristivomer namaycush), 75,000 brook trout 
{Salvelinus fontinalis), 30,000 rainbow trout 
