Excerpt from Transplanting Adult Pink Salmon to Sashin Creek, Baranof Island, Alaska, and Survival of Their Progeny About adult pink salmon were captured in a purse seine in Bear Harbor and transported alive in brine tanks on a boat to Sashin Creek, a distance of about 80 km. (50 miles). Most of the fish survived the trip; 727 males and females were put into Sashin Creek above a weir. The transplanted fish were augmented by 166 females and 121 males of unknown origin that entered the stream naturally. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.