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CHINOOK SALMON IN JERSEY WATERS he New Jersey Board of Fish and Game Com ¬ missioners urges every angler who takes a Chinook salmon in New Jersey waters this year to notify any gamu warden he may meet or write to the commission at Trenton The commission is anxious to find out how the Chinook salmon have propagated in New Jersey streams streamsThe The Chincok is the famous salmon taken on the Pacific coast and canned for worldwide markets A decade ago trial plantings of these fisli wen made in New England lakes the outlets of which were screened to prevent tliu escape of the salmon to the sea seaThe The results in those lakes have been excellent the salmon attaining a weight of from twelve to twenty pounds and providing exciting fishing fishingThe The New Jersey commission lias planted the young salmon in several lakes of deep cold water chiefly in the northern section of the state when conditions are believed to be satisfactory for their rapid growth growthAn An interesting feature in connection with salmon planting in New Jersey lakes is the report that Delaware River shad fishermen have been nutting occasionally large salmon and rainlxnv trout in their seines seinesThe The shad fishermen have been unable to de ¬ termine whether the salmon and trout had just escaped from Jersey waters and were making for the sea or had escaped in previous years and are migrating back with the shad shadA A century ago the Delaware teemed with Atlantic salmon but these fish have long been extinct to its waters
