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ALASKAN SALMON EGG COLLECTION WASHINGTON D C December 8 The Bureau of Fisheries Department of Commerce announces that a successful collection of socUeye salmon eggs was made at the close of the spawning season in Alaska for the Afognak station the total amounting to rvtOSlOOO which constitutes the largest take of that species since the Katmai eruption in 191L and seems to indicate the complete recovery of the stream from the disastrous effects of that occur ¬ rence In view of the encouraging situation com ¬ mercial fishing for sockeyes by the natives which lias been prohibited for a number of years was re ¬ sumed on a limited scale during the summer Humpback eggs to the number of 8i97000 were also secured and in continuation of the bureaus efforts to establish a run of this species in Iuget Sound during the off year 5750000 of them were sent down from Afognak and divided between the Birdsview and the Hoods Canal Washington hatcheries With them came 25800000 sockeye eggs of which 20700000 were reshipped from Seattle to Canadian hatcheries on the Fraser River The remainder will be developed at Jhe Quinaiilt station in an effort to build up the depleted run oC fisli in streams of that region regionThough Though not unusually large the take of eggs at Yes Bay was satisfactory the total for the season comprising 48 ir 000 sockeye and lSIHOOO hump ¬ backs Most of the eggs of the latter species will be shipped to the Maine stations in continuation oC the effort to establish the humpback in Atlantic waters
