Seattle daily post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, W.T. [Wash.]) 1881-1888, 1886-01-01

70 the Arctic Ocean. and is taken in i'm
nense quantities by the Indians sll
llons the shores of British Columbia
md Alaska. The principal fishery IN 1
W ashin2tsn Territory for hslfbut - az
Cape Flsttery, where tue Msksk In
iians annually take enough not only /
Tor their own tribal winter supplies, bat |
have Q lucrative traffic With other tribes
n dried halibut. At present the com
nercial demand for this fine fish Is lin
ted. bat when q market can be found |
Tor it, either sliced or dried, or salted or |
smoked, or canned or fresh, shipped |
packed With ice, 10 will be found that |
the supply il unlimited. Halibut are |
AIKEN at certain seasons of the yesr, IN |
all the waters OF Puget Seand, and con |
quantities are shipped, first to |
Portland, Oregon, then TO the interior !
towns
Codfish.-This valuable food fish,
which aboands in ALASKAN waters. is
bot plentiful in the waters of Fuca
Strait and Puget Sound, although il
seems 70 breed there. and the ysung are
caught in quantities and
esten as tom cod. 10 Ia probable thas
these young cod go TO the ooeau and
feed on the various grounds. vheee they
are taken by the natives, on banks out
side Cape Flattery. and along the coast
OF Vancouver Island. There are numer
Gus places in the Straits Of Fuca and
Puget Soand we'll adapted to the drying
and curing of Goldfish, particularly the
sand spits At Port Angeles sad Dssee-
ness, which are NEST admirably located
as fishing stations. Another feod tish.
which is taken in considerable numbers
at Cape Fisttery. is the green cod. cui-
tus God. buffalo cod. etc. This fish,
which resembles the true cod IN its
notified markings, differs in many re-
spects. The dorssl IN is continuous
from head to tail. This, with all the
fms, Is composed of thick. fsshy fila
ments, eelstinous and good eating.
The body has considerable oil, but the
liver none. The flesh ia white and
gosd; it is an excellent table fish. aver
aging from 10 tn 35 pounds. Speoi-
mems weighing IS pounds are occasion
allv captured.
Black Cod-This il enc of the most
delicate and fiuely favored of all the
salt water fish of Puget Sound. 1t is
taken 10 very deep water. and as yet the
fishery has not been developed to any
ans at Cape Flsttery take them in iim-
tied numbers, and they ara also csught
in all the deep waters of Puget Sound.
but the largest are taken at the Cape,
and are from 10 to 20 pounds weight
when fully grown. The full siZad fish
is aboat "a inches long, although in
stances are known where it has been
found to exceed 4 feet in length and to
weigh over 80 pounds. Ii is chapel like
. cod, but Is not notified. Is has dark
sepia colored back, with orayish sides
and belly. Its characterization are white
ness and fineness of texture OF flesh and
richness and delicacy of flavor. lttskes
salt equally as well as salmon, and al
though very fat, dses not rust like sal
mon or macksrsl.
OF the rock fish, the Sebastiohthys
are the most numerous. there being not
less than % varieties found ON the Pa
cifio Coast. most of thss being taken at
Cape Flattery. These range from the
red grouper. $. Ruber to the S. Niger,
improperly called bass. They are all
excellent food fish
The salmon trost II very plentiful,
and affords excellent sport TO the fisher
man, and an excellent dish when prop
erly cooked. The mountain or brook
trout abound in the streams of the in
terror.
Smaller food fishes.-The eulachon, or
candle fish, the smelt and herring are of
comnercial value. The former. from
their excessive oiliness, which the Indi-
ans, particularly of Mass River, British
Colu nbIa, extract and sell under the
name of "small fishorease This r.
sembles lard, and when freshly prepared
is used As food by the natives Smelt+
ale eaten fresh by the white population,
and dried in quantities for winter stores
by the natives. Herring is used fresh,
sailed and picked, smoked and dried,
and for making oil and Ruano.
Oil Fish.-The waters of Puget Sound
abound with dog fish and ground shark
from the livers of which great quaa.i
ties of excellent lubricsting oil are ex
| traoted by the Indians and sold to the
whites. A mandatory has been es.ab-
lished at Friday Harbor. on San Jusp
Island, where it ia proposed not only to
extract the oil from the fish. but II
manufacture fish glue from the bead.
and fms, and Ruano from the offai
This industry promises to be success
Whales abound of Cape Flattery and
numbers are taken by the Makah Iadi
ans, who are expert whalemen. and
boldly proceed to sea in their canoes
each holding . crew Of eight men. and
attack the whales With hatpoons and
lanoes. During the summer of lSS,
these Indians killed 12 whales OF tie
kind known Is California gray. Tb,
blubber is cut into strips and boiled
then dried In smoke like bacon. Bott
oil and blubber are used by the Indian,
as food, and when traded of to the
other Indians the oil is valued at thres
times the price of dog tish oil. three gal
Ions OF the latter being battered for one
gallon of the former.
Edible hoilusks.-Oysters CLAIMS anc
mussels are found 10 marketable guam
titles. OF the former the native oyste
il very smsll. The Eastern oyster ha,
been introduced in limited quantities
but enough to prove that it can be sno
cessfally cultivated in our waters. The
oysters of Shoalvatsr Bay are mosi
plentif1l, and several vessels are en-
ployed IN transporting them TO San
Francisco. CLAIMS OF several varieties
abound, and range in size from ons 10
ten inches, and from an ounee 10 ten
pounds in weight. The principal Gao
merry for CLAIMS Is at s. quinn Bsv, Clsl
Ian County. whsre Messrs. G. G. Bart.
lett d Co., Of Port Townsend, I'VE tx.
tensise works, under the IN .nagemen,
OF Mr.. j. X. Dean, Who pats saper,os
article on the market, which ~ preferred
20 the Eastern canned elsms Picked
CLANS are put up at Olympia and T.sp-
ma. Mussels of excellent qsality are
plentiful in Puget Sound, and =. Cape