The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1920-02-26
Catching Half Billion Pounds Of Salmon

lion pounds The final figures may be little higher
salmon fishing in December and there
keep going there anything Besides was the season.
1872 tor the maximum rub Of the humpak salmon which huge
volume other differing from the king salmon
year following the leap year for greatest gatherings
Salmon rubs Monterey California including Alas
ka and $50 miles the Columbia points, to be sure
but sections Of the Pacific Coast tributary
Runs the only salmon which the genuine interest,"
the where they few number consdera
ton in the making of totals of achievement
While of commercial value the salmon fisheries
States exceeded only by the and herring fisheries leading
the five varieties of salmon canned held the valuable
in the world These the chinook king salmon the bubac
soeye The flesh Of both red that the they
when dig them from the In the they different
color scheme, says writer in Dearborn Independent
The salmon spends much time along shore the the
backh that feed the Pacific but before the
great schools seeks cold water being only
character of water in which the salmon will spawn.
1t unfortunate necessity that the catches of salmon made
while the fish their the spawning But for this
fact the number of salmon each would be much larger But
be helped the fishermen waited until after spawning would
practically be no catch ALL the practically the samons
last journey.
Now the fisherman operates gill nets eines
diver dip squaw sene purse enes traps pound nets
and fish wheels The gill 300 fahoms length
chiefly used the Columbia River fisheries Diver
exclusively for the king salmon The dip feature of cascade fish
The about IL feet long Deep taking
from the fact that this largely used today by Indian
who fish for salmon Purse general Puget
Sound southeast Alaska They atoms long usually
operated boats The Puget Sound the
salmon off the the Straits of San Fuca and follow
the fish until they Of American
pound held position by five piles The itself
either webbing webbing netting
rue that the the fish forced along until they reach
called the pler The pler filed the ropes holding
the front loosened and the wall until level with the
then pushed alongside the sp the boat taking
position the outside of the
From the deck of the seine boat perhaps that helping
derrick rugged with running line from the through
block of the derrick This line attached end of
called bra heavily weighted by chains along
and loaded coswe several places Next small boat inside
the ler and the this draw the bler the and let
the er The sh gather this and the reels
the folding side splitting the fish
the This the share of the salmon catch TAKEN
There kinds of fish wheels One is shore stationary
Wheel while the other desired These wheels operation
unlike the device called Ferris Wheel familiar who
cultivate metropolitan parks that take the place
of the These manipulated that when
they bring the salmon the they Immediately drop them
into chutes through which the fish slide into bins.
Once caught the salmon speedily their the canner
Not that the fisherman has take them there Always the fishing
the various catches they offered talg the fish the
The lighters taken the they full
but there usually haste the handle
the fish until they twenyou hours DID, thus avoiding shrnkge
that makes for light At the the fish handled
of elevators which take them directly lighters
drop them the right points for further action their journey toward the
Salmon dressed, sailed packed by machinery
portion of the concerned although of the
smaller still utilize human skill preference purely
although the latter practice lessons annually
After the packed they washed then capped Safely
odd and the solder by jets of squirting the
placed coolers testing
object of testing find air holes in the indicated by air
bubbles appearing the Such aside be
odd and after second the testing tank O. K and
ready for the This consists of subecng the and
heat of ESQ degrees F. called the first cooking Next the
the venting table, where holes pked enable
and supAuou The holes soderd and
the is given a second sixty minute heat bath.
Next the I've BATH and then thorough washing with hot
The final test accomplished by tapping the the shining
piece nail and if all WE'LL pass
they find their way desired.
So the stands ready begin journey the with
long odds against having slightest idea the labor
before him the around which he the easily
The expense of the salmon pack of 1919 exceeded thirty millions of
dollars. In round numbers thirty thousand directly employed
the industry while allied industries furnish occupation for many