Jasper County Democrat, Volume 18, Number 59, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 October 1915 — Fish Choke River. [ARTICLE]

Fish Choke River.

There is a heavy run of salmon in the Cowlitz and Kalama rivers, and • in the latter stream, on which the state fish hatchery is located, the run is the greatest ever known by white man. This stream is protected by law on account of the hatchery, and fishermen are forbidden to operate in it with their gear, and many of the riffles are so crowded with fish that one can hardly cross the stream without stepping on fish. The men at the hatchery gb into the fish like a drove of fat hogs and pick them up examining each fish, and if it is “ripe’’ the salmon is killed The spawn is taken and placed in hatching trays at the hatchery, there attended until the eggs are hatched and the small fry taken care of until large enough to protect themselves, when they are turned loose in the river. They return in four years to the stream in which they were hatched, being full-sized fish within that time.—Kelso Cor. Seattle Post-Intelligence.