The Alaska daily empire., 1918-09-19
RESULTS ARE GIVEN OF
 EXPERIMENTS MADE BY THE
 AlAoKh fISH AND GAME CLUB

of its experiments in the line of salmon propagation, the following recommendations
 1.-Stripping the parent fish at the spawning beds and after fertil- izing artificially, planting tho eggs in the sand or gravel to conform with natural matching.
 2.-Holding fertilized eggs in the hatchery to within "A to 72 hours of the matching stage and then planting same in inlet streams of barren lakes or bodies of water wholly free from all other fish life or natural enemies.
 3.-The cleaning out of all natural salmon-producing streams of debris and Instructions and erecting lad ders over barriers. ,,
 The experiments of the Alaska Fish and Game Club in the line of salmon matching has evinced the fol lowing facts
 Fry matched and retained in the troughs or placed in artificial ponds and fed in the usual manner become domesticated and deprived of the natural instinct of, self-pres- ervation, and upon being liberated they become the easy prey of their natural enemies.
 2.-They are not as healthy and do not grow as rapidly as when oh fa thnn, cn1unc and provide their own food.
 3.-Limiting fishing to such an ex- tent as to permit the salmon to reach the natural spawning beds rather than hatchery propagation as was conducted will do much toward replenishing the supply of fish in impoverished streams.
 Interesting Experiment
 An interesting experiment lately conducted by the Club was as fol lows: Salmon eggs in the roe and unripe milt were taken from the iron chink' in cannery after the parent fish had been dead from 12 to A hours and handled the same as live eggs. by being fertilized by the milt artificially and placed in troughs. After a lapse of 120 days result amounting to , per cent. of normal fish was obtained, remarkable showing under the circumstances and conditions. While these experiments carried on by the Club have been meagre, owing to limited means and opportunities, they have demonstrat- ed to & most satisfactory degree the success that can be attained in Al aska by artificial fish propagation
 What Of the Future?
 When the matter of depicting the waters of Alaska of fish is mention ed the statement is invariably made that Alaska's output of canned and fresh fish is increasing with each succeeding year. While the state ment is partially correct, the in creaseeds output is due solely to the fact that many new canneries and salteries are being installed ev. cry year and the waters are being more thoroughly fished than ever before. The fact remains, however that fish are becoming scarcer each year in the localities where canneY ies and salteries are making inroads on the supplies of the late virgin territory. Formerly it was not ire quent that fish were transported more than from 10 to 20 miles from the fishing grounds to the canneries but now, and due to the increased scarcity, it is not unusual for fish to be taken from traps and seines located from 150 to 200 miles dis. tant from the canneries or salteries Bearing on the subject of fish de. pletion, the Alaska Fish and Game Club has embodied the following in it's annual report to the Governor of the Territory:
 Tt is fully believed by this asso- citation that strenuous efforts must be put forth for the maintenance of