The daily morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1883-1899, 1895-08-13
relephone No. &C.
STOP THE FALL FISHING.

The practice of putting up fall salmon
on the Columbia River is one that should
never be allowed to continue. Both com
mon honesty and seK-interest ought to
deter the cannerymen from packing it,
and besides 1t is time that public opinion
made its influence felt 10 such a way as
to put a stop to a course that can be
looked at in no other light than most
harmful TO the industry, and therefore
harmful to the interests Of the city and
the state at large. The fall salmon"
that"dellcious and exqulsltely favored
FISH," has been TOO long the subject Of
admlration--on labels, and we really be-
lieve that some Gamers have come to
Imagine that It is good and nutritious q
product as can be found anywhere. How
ever, giving them credit for all honesty
Of purpose and allowing them the benz
fit Of their own opinions, It is time to
make them see that their interests an. a
little too much mixed up In this matter
to enable them to hold views that are
strictly correct.
The fall fsh-that is to say the salmon
caught in and peculiar to the Columbia
river in the fall, from the first Of Sep
tember along till tho end Of the year,
is not a fit article to present to the public
in the guise Of food. 1t is very nearly
tasteless-perhaps 1t would be better II
i It were all tasteless, and it's color is
reither healthy nor attractive. In short,
It is a played out, exhausted, and very
badly disfgured imitation of the Columbia
River spring salmon, and to put such
an article into cans sent out from this
river is an outrage. In the first place
the ordinary buyer in his innocence i'm
agines when he buys can of Col
umbia River salmon, and when he
is CERTAIN that 1t comes from the
locality claimed for it, that he cam
not be fooled. Whether the can bears
on dts face the words "spring salmou,"
or whether It is labeled without the word
"spring" at all, makes no difference to
him. He supposes that there Is no choice,
takes his fall-packed can home and from
the day he eats It's contents is turned into
an inveterate and everlasting enemy OF
the Columbia River product in every
shape and form. TIE talks against 1t to
his friends and becomes walking, ami
mated warning against their purchasing
It.
lie 10 nd hIa Qtt'hqa,
quent course is that of any other man
who has been deceived and practically
robbed-for he has given a certain amount
Of value for what was valueless.
Surely the cannerymen must acknowl-
edge the stupidity of laying their business
open to rulnation by allowing such an
article as fall fish to initiate against
and seriously endanger the popularity OF
the Royal Chinook. They cannot shd
their eyes to the harm worked by these
fall operations, and there Is not mar
among them who, II he tells the truth
will not agree with us that 1t would have
been thousand times better for the con
1ition OF the Industry today II fall FISH
ing had never been started on the Colum-
bia. We feel that Il is our duty to warn
the Gamers against the further indul'
eence in this practice, and to state that
we owe It to the public. and more partic-
ularly to the people away from home, to
do all in our power to bring fall fishing on
this river into dlsrepute. In thus acting
we claim not only to be subserving the
interests OF our readers but the interests
OF the packers themselves. The shutting
of of all operations for the year after
the 10th OF August will certainly work
the Gamers no financial harm, for ac-
cordlng to their own oft repeated state
ments, there Is no money in fall Column
bia fishing. II this is the case, and the
perfunctory manner In which late fishing
Is carried on seems to bear OUT the truth
OF the statement. then they have been
doubly foolish, because for all these years
they have hurt their pockets and their
regulations at the same time.
The Historian is out against any contin-
uanee Of the evil, and win spare no pains
to accomplish a result that must be hall
ed with satisfaction even by the cannery-
men.