With fly-rod and camera . that are found unripe are placedbv themselves to be examined a day or two later. Some of the males are put intoeach pound in order that they may be seined up with each lot of females and athand for use. In the operation of spawning, the eggs and milt are received in a pan with-out water and mixed by waving the pan in a circle. They are then weighed andwashed in changes of water until the water is no longer cloud)-. After standingin clear water for about twenty minutes, or until they are swelled and hardened,they are taken to the river hatchery and placed on wire trays
With fly-rod and camera . that are found unripe are placedbv themselves to be examined a day or two later. Some of the males are put intoeach pound in order that they may be seined up with each lot of females and athand for use. In the operation of spawning, the eggs and milt are received in a pan with-out water and mixed by waving the pan in a circle. They are then weighed andwashed in changes of water until the water is no longer cloud)-. After standingin clear water for about twenty minutes, or until they are swelled and hardened,they are taken to the river hatchery and placed on wire trays about one foot trays are placed one above another in stacks or frames of twenty each, withspaces between for passage of water, but too narrow for passage of eggs, and thestacks carefulh lowered into troughs supplied with running water and of such sizethat the stacks nearly fill the whole width and depth. The flow of water is thusbetween the trays, and the eggs are. supplied both above and below. This arrange-.
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