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LONG RUN OF A TAGGED SALMON The United states Bureau of Fisheries has received rem John p. Bahceek, of the fisheries department of Britteh Columbia, record of the capture in the upper Eraser River of a sockeye salmon bearing on it- tail a button that had been inserted in marking experiments carried on by the bureau in Pugel .Sound. The fish, dipuetted by an Indian at Soda Creek Canyon, British Columbia, on Aagasl lo. p.os, bad ben taken at Village Point, l.unnii Island. Washington, on July 19. 191S. Soda reek i- approximately 400 miles from the mouth of the Eraser Biver and Village Point is about seventy miles from the same place. Therefore, aaauaniag that the ii-!i moved by i in- mo-t direct route, the overage rute of travii was nearly seventeen miles a day.
