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...drove an open car on an exploring trip past Puget Sound inlets, where white salmon trollers and log booms lay moored. Lounging at the wheel, he followed the blue salt water of Hood Canal which lies, fjord-like, in the shadow of steep Olympic Mountain foothills...
Next afternoon he went up Puget Sound to a famed stretch of salmon water off Anderson Island. No fisherman, the President got into a skiff with a crew of willing advisers: Governor Wallgren; Nick Bez, a burly Yugoslav who operates Alaskan fishing fleets; and Costa Lazzaratti, the Governor's excitable Italian cook. Despite them he hauled in nothing but a sharklike dogfish. But the wind was cool, the day bright, and a nearby fisherman presented him with a 12-lb. king salmon...
...Fish and Wildlife Service has worked out a breathtaking scheme to make all this water power possible and salmon, too. This "most tremendous biological experiment in American history," described in the February Harper's by Richard L. Neuberger, is nothing less than a plan to teach the Chinook to forget the Columbia headwaters, spawn instead in the streams below Bonneville...
Uncle Sam's Fish College. The Fish and Wildlife Service has already proved, on a small scale, that the thing can be done. In 1939, while Grand Coulee was being built, the Service's fish experts began to trap salmon bound up river, rushed them by truck to a huge hatchery at Leavenworth, Wash. which Government biologists call "Uncle Sam's Fish College." There, far from their birthplace, the fish were propagated artificially-females were split open for their eggs and milt from the male salmon was squirted on them...
...plan will work for virtually all the Columbia's estimated 240,000 Chinooks-though it may result in a punier breed of fish. But oldtime fishermen are skeptical. Said Forest Ranger Grady Miller, gazing moodily at a Wallowa Lake dam that has completely destroyed a once-great salmon fishing ground: "Civilization and salmon...