Word: donaldson
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...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 that will forage in the northeast...
Real Mess. Dr. Donaldson has been improving fish for 31 years. Starting with rainbow trout, a salmon relative, he bred ponderous super-rainbows that weighed 6 lbs. when only one year old, 500 times the weight of ordinary yearling rainbows. He still raises some of these juvenile giants and gives them to the state department of fisheries for secret release in lakes near Seattle. Then he drives out in the early morning to watch the fun. "All of a sudden," he says, "someone will yell like hell when he ties into one of these monsters. Fishing rods get broken...
Salmon are harder to breed than Donaldson's trout. Instead of spending all their lives in fresh water, where they can be fattened like hogs, ocean salmon come to fresh-water streams only to lay their eggs. When the fingerlings are three inches long, they take off for the sea, where they get most of their growth. They come home to deposit their eggs and sperm with unerring accuracy in the stream where they were hatched...
...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...
...following inning Kirkland scored four runs after two men had been retired. Hopkins, Donaldson and Larry Galindo were hit by pitched balls, and John Adler drove in two with a single to center, taking second on the play at the plate. Selig completed the scoring with a two-run safety to left...