GREAT RUN OF SALMON

Evening Post, Volume CX, Issue 131, 1 December 1930, Page 9

GREAT RUN OF SALMON

THE FEASER RIVER

HIGH PROMISE FOR FUTURE

(From "Tho Post's" Representative.) VANCOUVER, 29th October. The salmon arc returning to the Fraser River, once tho world's greatest salmon stream, in such numbers as to suggest that tho seasons following 1934 will rank with the output of tho river's best years in the past. . Just now an immense run of sockeye is passing up tho river, and is successfully negotiating Hell's Gate, tho world's biggest salmon jump. Every eddy for at least two miles below Hell's Gate, on both sides of the river, is full -of sockcye, making their way up to the gate, and there are thousands of fish at the gate itself. Examination of tho shores above by Federal inspectors showed tho sockeyo were having little difficulty in passing up the river. Eddies above' the gate wore full of fish, and thousands arc observed passing under the Thompson River bridge at Lytton, obviously on their way to the Shuswap spawning ground. Ninety-nine per cent, of all the sockeye are in "rod livery," which denotes an advanced spawning stage, but, notwithstanding their condition, they appear to retain most of their strength. Tho present run is tho largest since tho last big fourth-year rim of 1913, which was largely destroyed at Hell's Gate, owing to the blockade at that point, resulting from immense quantities 'Of rock being blasted by railway construction gangs and sliding into the rivor. Tests made at tho mouth of tho river show the proportion of fish going up is: Sockoye 70, p.lium 4, colioo 1. An appeal is being made by the Canadian authorities to cannors of the State of Washington to allow the fish to go up (he river unmolested. 'Hitherto they have refused to observe tho Canadian-American Federal Treaty, henco tho depletion of the famous