The Ketchikan miner., 1908-04-18
THE ALASKA FISHERIES
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 sand rounds each are shipped annually from Columbia and Sacramento River points.
 The coId-storage process of pre- serving salmon in sugar aud salt hss been superseded 10 great extent by freezing the fresh fish. Sieelheads and silver salmon. which run through ;he tsll and winter months. are used chiefly for this purpose. They are brought on hargss from the traps that picke. every salmon river for miles and stop the upstream flight toward the spawning grounds, or by gill-net- ters who. 10 chea. the traps, risk their very lives a; the bars where rivets meet the sea. Weighed in by the packers. and carefully washed. they are taken 10 the stogage-rooms. where the temperature is always be- low freezing point, and dipped in water. which forms coating of ice upon them. They are then stacked in cords. like 90 much wood. until time for shipment. hen they are wrapped separately ID paper. packsd i'll ies. and loaded in retrigeraior cars. Ths annual shipments O, frozen salmon to the East aud to Europe from Puget Sound are TO. less than fire million pounds.
 "B1t. important as .he shipment oi fresh salmon has become. il stands second 10 the bali5ut industry. The aaiioat catch in the Pacific last season ~as a1out forty million pounds, Of .s hich twenty-five million pounds went 70 Eastern markets.
 That the Atlantic has been dShed out ot hali6ut and cod is a statement tha. one sometimes heats from West ern fshertolk who have not laIe.y ..Ood 0n he old T-ss hari al Gloucester when .he fishing feet came in. CT on big market oay. Bus the drain of more than tRo hundred years has lea1 f4i'. and for the eyer-grUwing demand ot ever groAing cities. whose given riss in some quarters 10 grave fears regarding the depletion Of the salmon supply. and has caused much- needed and noue-t -too- early activity looking toward the hetter protection and artificial propagation Of this valu- able d.h. Bdt investigation proges that lae decrease is not due wholly to ,he years relentless pursuit Of tae salmon and much @anton waste, n..t 10 diversion oi vast quantities oi the fish :rcsu tbe cannsEies 10 the frssi. f. markets. The system of cold storage and refrigerator cars Ahich las eiim- ina,sl seasons. which puts stray ber ries. green peas. ard asparagus into nostass.. ;.-ai sets while bl!zzards are yel raging oger their farms and gar ,i=ns. Las 5. ace year-round market in sae East for this fish that runs in Atlantic w-tess only from June to August
 Time 9 as F hen ths New England coat ran So plentitully with salmon that, + is told. apprentices and serf- aot- demaa5e5 a written agreement from their mater. that they be not f@J Ja salmon more than twice @eek. But rbe damned rivers of the siaine timnsr lands and the dye-poi- iu5ed streams of the factory States no logger offer sps~ ming grounds for salmon. which has become so scarce .has the entire catch in New England would nos supply hal. the demand oi Boston alone. Though this condition has existed for many years, the Bos- tou fish dealer laoeis his salmon ''Pen- oDscos. not onIy from June to Aug Dsf, but from August to June again. for he would Deger dare admit that most Of bis fish is caught three thou sand miles from the New England coast.
 With the demand for fresh salmon ss ali seasons there has grown also Q demand for mild-cDred and sweet picseIed salmon, not only in Eastern but in European markets. For these purposes tons Of fish are used that formerly went into cans. Only the largest and finest Chinook, the famous King salmon Of the ColUmhia and Sac raFaento Rivers, are Dsed for mild curing, which ia process Of preserg ing them in mild brine to retain all the juice and flavor of the fresh fish until they reach their destination, where they are freshened and smoked. The demand came first from Germany. where smoked salmon is the fagorife delicacy in beer gardens and railway stations. And many Bsedeker-con- q scsed tourist would have tine keen edge ot his delight in this typical German dish dUIIed if he knew that it had travelled across she ocean in the hold Of the very steamer CD which be