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.. -51- on the following day. The jars were then sealed and iced to hold them overnight. Time at completion of this operation was 5:30 p.m. December 3, 1960 (5) The first plant of five baskets,_.three ounces per basket, was made in 40 Rod Creek adjacent to the Daniel Hatchery. The eggs were tempered from 32 plus degrees F. (overnight icing temperature) to 42° F. (40 Rod Creek temperature) before planting. Tempering time was approxi- mately 40 minutes. Time at completion of this plant was 9:30 a.m. (6) Of the remaining thirteen jars, ten were packed in cases, in sawdust, for transporting to other sites. Three jars were placed in hatchery water to temper before placing them in the incubator. (7) The second plant of five baskets, three ounces per basket, was made in Pine Creek at the inlet of Fremont Lake. Egg temperature was 32 plus degrees F. and Pine Creek temperature was 33° F. Approximately 5 inches of ice covered Pine Creek at the time of the plant. The baskets were placed in approximately 18 inches of water. Time at completion of this plant was 12; 00 noon. (8) The third plant of 5 baskets, three ounces per basket, was made at the Big Island Bridge in the Green River. The planting site was the same location where eyed kokanee-and brown trout eggs were planted in 1958 - and 1959. The river temperature was 32° F., and the egg temperature was 39° F. Tempering time was approximately 45 minutes. The eggs were planted in about 15 inches of water. Time at completion of this plant was 6:00 p.m. (9) The remaining three jars of eggs were removed from hatchery tempering water and placed in the incubator about 4;30 p.m. The total time elapse from stripping to planting mf all eggs was 30~ hours. On March 15th and 16th the first were removed from Pine Creek and the Green River. The remainder of the baskets were removed from the Green River at Big Island Bridge and 40 Rod Creek on April 26, 1960, and from Pine Creek on May 5, 1960. Table No. XI, page 55, shows a tabulation of these egg plants. The results of these green egg kokanee plants were similar to the results of the Salmon-Cultural Laboratory at Entiat, Washington, previously mentioned in paragraph 2, page 50, of this report. The eggs planted in 40 Rod Creek, which maintains a water temperature of 42° F., eyed and hatched at a very high percentage. Those eggs planted in Pine Creek and the Green River at water temperatures approaching 32~ F. suffered 1007. mortality, (10) To obtain additional information on planting green eggs, experiments were conducted in the spring of 1960 after the termination of this project. Green rainbow trout eggs obtained from Lake DeSmet fish were planted on April 269 in the same manner as descrified for the kokanee egg planting experiments. Eggs were planted in the Henry's Fork, The Green River below ~,T. S. Highway 30, the Green ,River just above the Big Island Bridge and at the Daniel Hatchery as a control. The