Word: chinook
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...broad-beamed chinook salmon were coming home from the sea. Seattle's Lake Union swarmed with the far-ranging voyagers, and when the advance guard struggled up a fish ladder on the campus of the University of Washington, they got an unusually warm reception. Waiting to greet them was Professor (of Fisheries) Lauren R. Donaldson, their breeder, nurse and public relations man. For these were no ordinary salmon. Conceived on the campus, they were the third generation of college-bred chinooks, selected for vigor, meatiness and quick maturing. Dr. Donaldson hopes to develop them into a race of supersalmon...
Donaldson began his salmon improvement program in 1948 with fertilized eggs from chinook salmon that run up Soos Creek, well south of Seattle. He hatched the eggs in tanks on the campus and nursed the infant salmon until they grew into fingerlings. Then he washed them down a sluice into Lake Union, and they swam out into the Pacific. After four years, the college-bred salmon returned to the campus full grown, like old grads gathering for a class reunion...