. Commercial fisheries review. Fisheries; Fish trade. 44 COMMERCIAL FISHERIES REVIEW Vol. 23, No. 1 (6,069,566 fingerling and 1,036,064 fry). A total of 2,250,879 spring chinook were planted (1,935,646 fingerling and 315,233 yearling), and 832,086 pink salmon (823,896 fingerling and 8,190 fry). SPAWNING SALMON ESCAPEMENT GOOD DESPITE POOR CATCHES: Despite a poor sport and commercia salmon fishing season in Washington State during 1960, severe curtailment of both sport and commercial fishing allowed compara- tively good escapements of salmon to Wash- ington streams, the Director of the Washing-
. Commercial fisheries review. Fisheries; Fish trade. 44 COMMERCIAL FISHERIES REVIEW Vol. 23, No. 1 (6,069,566 fingerling and 1,036,064 fry). A total of 2,250,879 spring chinook were planted (1,935,646 fingerling and 315,233 yearling), and 832,086 pink salmon (823,896 fingerling and 8,190 fry). SPAWNING SALMON ESCAPEMENT GOOD DESPITE POOR CATCHES: Despite a poor sport and commercia salmon fishing season in Washington State during 1960, severe curtailment of both sport and commercial fishing allowed compara- tively good escapements of salmon to Wash- ington streams, the Director of the Washing- ton State Department of Fisheries stated on October 29, 1960. Returns of chinook salmon to some hatch- ery streams in Puget Sound were of record size, with indications hatchery egg takes and natural seeding of streams would be compa- rable to those of last year, assuring future runs and holding hopes for increases. Commercial fishermen were cooperative in shortening seasons and fishing time and sports fishermen contributed materially to escapements by voluntarily curtailing their fishing efforts. The Deschutes River fishway count of chinook salmon hit an all-time record for returning adults, with 10,025 counted at the trap up to October 26, 1960, with the run still in progress. Since the Deschutes was first planted in 1946 more than 51,000 chi- nook have returned to the stream. In 1960, in addition, silver salmon were returning from fish planted in Capitol Lake in 1957. The new run of chinook salmon that showed up at the Hoodsport Hatchery on Hood Canal (Finch Creek) reached an all- time high of around 2,700 fish. In addition, there were about 1,000 silver salmon in the hatchery's trapping area. In northern Puget Sound the SamishHatch- ery marked the second largest number of returning chinook and magnitude of egg take in its history. In the Snohomish district the outlook for silver salmon was good, with 1,200 silvers at the Skykomish Hatchery, ahead of both last year and the p
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