The morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1899-1930, 1903-12-09
THE STORMS
INTERFERED
Otherwise the Seasons Hatchery
Work in Oregon Was Emf
nentIy Successful.
LARGE OUTPUT AT ONTARIO
More Than 2O,OOO,OOO Eggs
Taken There-South Coos
Kiver Plant Proves An
Excellent One.

warden, for the month of November
has just been made public. The report
which follows, deals almost exclusivel,
with hatchery operations, with whfcl
bad weather interfered:.u
The rains and storms that prevailed
along the coast from November to Il
were so severe that it put q complete
stop to the collection of salmon eggs at
all Of our coast hatcheries, and east of
the mountains, instead of having rain,
snow storms prevailed which made the
weather so severe that the men could
not stand the cold water. and the work
of collecting eggs in that part of the
state also had to be abandoned.
At ontario the weather had been ex-
tremely cold all through the month
which made it considerable for hard
ship on the fishing and spawning crew,
but as they were averaging about one
million eggs day,they were encourag-
ed to keep on with the work until the
eighth of the month when the storm
reached that section making it impos-
sable to continue and the racks were
taken out.
The report Of Superintendent Brown
shows that he succeeded in spawning
4757 female ,hinoolSs from which he
took 2O,5OO,OOO eggs, sufficient number
when Matched to fully tax the capacity
Of the building and which / consider
very encouraging work for the season
when we take into consideration that
this was practically the first season
and that the construction and equip
ment work was still under way.
Next year there will be nothing to in
terfere with the spawning work and an
effort should be made to test the capa-
city OF the stream by spawning every
salmon III lne CoTrdl,
AT Wallowa they were at work on the
sockeye salmon and did not stop until
the night of the 18th. Two days later
the thermometer fell to ~ degrees
above zero and as there is no building
at this station to protect the troughs
the water supply froze up and all eggs
and young fry had to be planted.
This. our first season on the upper trib-
utary shows conclusvely that we
should have Il good warm building
there sufficiently large to protect all the
eggs which can be secured as the sta-
ZION has proved very desirable To-
cation, and the legislature should not
allow the matter to be neglected any
longer.
At our request Senator Fulton has
recently introduced a measure into con-
gress asking that the site be set aside
for fish culture purposes and no doubt
such reservation will be made before
spring AS soon as this is DONE this
department should be provided with
the necessary funds to establish plant
with capacity of at least ten millions
and have the same ready for occupancy
In time for the next seasons work.
Reports received from Superintend-
ent Allen show that he began with the
chinook eggs October 20, taking In all
ychlnook eggs October 30, taking In all
3 7O7 900 eggs from 959 chinook females.
The work on the sockeyes began Oc-
,obc,4 lS andwas stopped on November
Is by the slush ice in theriver, which
seining. Three million nine
hundred and one thousand eggs were
secured from 1S42 sockeye females,
total of 7,6OS,OOO eggs at that
station, '@ ~@As!
At the Salmon river hatchery we
nave hav eturned out 2,s5S,O0O chinook
iry, leaving only afew hundred thou
.and on hand. In addition to these we
nave taken 6,7i2O0O eyed eggs from the
little White salmon and Big White
salmon stations Of the United States
lsherles department, which they We're
,nahle 10 care for THESE win be
hatched and developed and the
young fry planted in the vicinity OF the
salmon river hatchery, This is giving
his hatchery a double batch of eggs
yit as ,ur own take of eggs wan be
,retty well out Of the way by the time
he government eggs arrive, 1t viii {
work. very nicely. 1t does, however /
lraw on our limited funds TO have the I
are Of this additional batch. AS the
government people are sure to have a
npply Of eggs far in excess OF their
apacity every year, some one must
ssist them In taking care of them, or
his surplus will have to be dumped out 4
5 soon as Matched. For this reason e