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Federal Govt.
Restock Streams
Above Coulee
How the federal government
is seeking to preserve the salmon
•fisheries of the Columbia River
Respite the threat of Grand Cou
lee Dam was told to several hun
<lred salmon cannery operators
and others who gathered in Seat
tie last month to discuss prob
lems affecting salmon quality by
A. J. Suomela, associate aquatic
fciologist of the U. S. Bureau of
Fisheries.
After stating that the annual
value of the fisheries of the Col
umbia is approximately $10,000,
000 and that the great height of
the Coulee Dam and the turbul
ance of the waters below it pre
vent the salmon from ascending
the Columbia above the Grand
Coulee, he described the methods
which the government is using to
transport the salmon to spawn
ing streams.
Ninety percent of the salmon
which pass the Rock Island Dam
near Wenatche are enroute to
spawning streams above the
Grand Coulee.
The permanent plan to preser
ve this valuable fisheries resourct
involves trapping the fish on
their way to spawn as they pass
Rock Island Dam and transport
ing- them to prepared holding
pools at fish hatcheries. The eggs
will be hatched at selected hatch
cries and planted in the streams
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which enter the Columbia below
the Grand Coulee Dam.
I During the 1939 season how
! ever, no hatcheries were avail
able to carry out this program,
| and therefore it was necessary to
I plan a program whereby the fish
! could spawn naturally, Mr. Suo
mela said.
“The run could not be allow
ed to reach the Grand Coulee,”
he said, "because they could nei
ther pass the dam or be trapped
and removed from the river be
low it. All of the necessary equip
ment for trapping and hauling
them, to be used in the perman
ent program, was ready to han
dle the run in 1939.
“Trapping devices had been in
stalled in the fish ladders at Rock
Island Dam to intercept these fish
on their spawning migration, and
specially built fish trucks were
ready to transfer these fish to the
holding ponds.
“During the season, eight spec
ialy built trucks were used to
transport the fish to streams and
lakes below Grand Coulee Dam
: from the traps at Rock Island.
Picket racks or weirs are con
structed in the streams and at the
lake outlets to prveent the plant
| ed salmon from returning to the
; Columbia.
The average distance the fish
were hauled was between 55 and
60 miles, while the longest haul
was approximately 150 miles.
During the season, a total of 36,
237 food and game fish were sal
vaged by this system. Of these.
11,206 were Chinooks; 19,591 were
bluebacks; 5,427 steelhead; and
13 silvers. Blueback are the same
species as Alaska reds.
The mortality of the fish trans
ported was exceedingly low, and
the fish appeared content to re
main in the streams where they
were planted, Mr. Suomela re
ported.
NAVY AIRBASE BUILDER
TO GO TO KODIAK
SEATTLE, April 19 — Com
mander C. W. Coryell, of the
! Civil Engineering Corps of the
IU. S. Navy, who will supervise
the construction of the $10,000,
000 Navy airbase at Kodiak, con
ferred with contractors here
prior to sailing for Sitka Satur
: day.
Commander Coryell built the
naval air station at Sand Point
in Seattle.
Commander R. E. Thomas,
Public Works officer in charge of
construction for the Thirteenth
Naval District, reported work on
the $3,000,000 Sitka base far
ahead of schedule. It will be com
pleted in 18 months, he said.
Work began on the Sitka base
November 1, Commander Thom
as said, and despite adverse wea
ther and difficult terrain, has
gone steadily ahead.
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AFL CHIEF HURLS
DEFY AT LEWIS
FLINT, Mich.. April 17—Presi
dent Green of the A F of L ac
cused CIO Leader John L. Lewis
of fostering the overthrow of the
government and seeking to be
come dictator.
Green made the charge before
a mass meeting of General Mot
ors auto workers who will
choose collective bargaining rep
resentatives at a National Labor
Board election. Said Green:
“I charge that the leader of
the CIO is secretly planning a
political revolution comparable
to that which made Stalin the die
tator of the United Soviets.”
Green implied that recent at
tacks by the CIO chief on Presi
dent Roosevelt and Administrat
ion policies indicated a sympathy
1 with Communist aims.
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ALASKA’S SHIPS CAN KEEP RUNNING and give Alaska’s people
good transportation, regular mail service the year around. That’s because
75% of Alaska’s steamship revenue is paid by the Canned Salmon
Industry for shipments of salmon, building materials, cannery supplies
and transportation of crews. It’s another way in which the Salmon
Industry helps to promote prosperity here.
! AUTHORITY IS SOUGHT
• TO PAY ARC WORKERS
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WASHINGTON, April 19—The
| Interior Department suggested
that Congress pass a law author
izing the Alaska Road Commis
sion to continue furnishing trans
portation for employees to and
from cities to outlying projects.
It also asked that payments here
tofore made for such purposes be
legalized as well as money paid
for subsistance and lodging.
Project foreman said the Gener
al Accounting Office had question
ed some of the claims presented.
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GERMANY TRIES
DAYLIGHT ERSATZ
BERLIN — For the first time
in more than a decade, Germany
will this year have summer time
as a war measure to save fuel.
At 2 a.m. on April 1, all public
clocks throughout Germany were
advanced one hour. Summer
time ends October 6, at 3 a.m.,
when all time-pieces will be set i
back one hour.
A German invention during j
the last war, the idea was aban
doned in later years.
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