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FISH HATCHERIES
In March, 1921, a small
pamphlet v/as issued by A. J.
Sprague, ex-Superintendent of-1
Territorial Hatcheries in Alaska,
entitled “The Alaska Salmon
and their Propogation.” It is
now out of print and since we
nave received many requests
for a copy of this little book, we
are printing it in sections from
time to time as space will per
mit.
THE ALASKA SALMON AND
THEIR PRACTICAL
PROPOGATION
By A. J. Sprague.
I am writing this little book,
clear reader, for the benefit of
rhe Alaska Fishermen, for we
are all interested, from the big
canneryman to the little gunny
sack fisherman of the spawning
streams. I want a little heart
to heart talk with all the thou
sands of Alaska fishermen.
We all live in Alaska and de
sire to continue our residence
here. The hsh business is the
largest industry in Alaska, and
we, as fishermen, must see that
lit is taken care of and that the
j industry is not destroyed thru
greed or lack of intelligent pre
■ Nervation rmd propogation. This
is no one man’s job. Everyone
must dp his part, arid that
means all of us.
! We all know there is some
thing wrong when we have
spasmodic runs of salmon in dif
ferent districts of our inland
waters. On off years we always
pat ourselves on the back and
say, “Oh, yes, next year is the
big cycle year.” And when the
fish do not come, we explain it
"way in one breath by making
a goat of the bear, seagulls, fish
ducks, all species of trout and
other fish; eating all the salmon
eggs or to storms or lower water
'[ stream, conditions. It would
[ be good policy for us to be hon
I est with ourselves. We all know
1hat for centuries, nature has
i provided for all this loss, and
; she has fixed immutable and
iron laws. For, to start with,
she has given the power to any
one species to destroy without
placing a limit to destruction.
(Frankly, I don’t believe tnat
there are any more seagulls to
day than there were twenty
years ago). When any living
creatures become too plentiful,
nature has her own way to de
stroy and annihilate them.
Just leave it to her. She will j
establish that balance or equi- ■
librium necessary. Her iron
laws hold from the minutest
form of life to man himself.
Now, just a word about the
trout’s devouring all the salmon
eggs. Possibly it has never oc
curred to one person in a hun
dred that the young salmon,
during his stay in fresh water,
before going to his future home
in the seas, eat the eggs and
young of the trout during their
spawning season.
For nature intended this to
be so. in order that the trout
may not get too plentiful. On
the other hand, she has given
to one female salmon three
thousand eggs. Why? So that
a few may reach maturity, and
ihe balance feed her other crea
tures.
Comes now, Mr. Selfishman,
end upsets and destroys all of
this balance. He would take all
and put back nothing. Now
make no mistake in this matter,
ior nature does not intend to
stand for any of that kind of
stuff. We are only fooling our
selves. It is like the farmer
i that takes "he crops off his land
I end in turn has to fertilize it,
land put in another one. And,
Mr. Fisherman, that is just what
jwe have got to do with the sea.
i We have got to put something
back, and at least allow a cer
tain per cent of a yearly run
cf salmon up to their spawning
grounds to seed the beds for the
future generation. If we don’t
we may just as well grab our
blankets and say, “To the Pio
neers’ Home at Sitka for us,”
or, “Where do we go from
here?” We can’t get in on the
Siberian fisheries for the Japs
and the Reds have beat us to it.
They got there first, and any
how, just at the present time,
we don’t know who to make ar
rangements with yet.
Now let’s call a spade a spade,
a spade in this fish business.
All of you fellows know how to
1 get the fish, by all the clever
; devices set by the ingenuity of
man, from the modern floating
trap to the gunnysack fisher
man of the streams, and why
not all of us help a Mttle bit on
the propogation end of the
i business? Honest now, don’t
| get sore, and lose two week’s
j sleep because a few salmon get
by your nets and racks during
the night of high water and es
caped up stream to seed their
spawning beds for future pre
servation of the species. Let’s
look into the propogation end of
this most important fish ques
tion.
To be Continued
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