166 

 JAMES E. PHILLIPS 

 Mountains and flows 35 miles north to the Strait of Juan 

 de Fuca." 



This is roughly ten miles east of Port 

 Angeles where the mouth of the river is. 



"In 1959, when the Washington state fisheries 

 department began counting the humpback salmon that spawn 

 in the Dungeness, there were 40,000 of them. This summer 

 it was obvious by the end of the second day of the month- 

 long run that there would be many more than that: counters 

 near the mouth of the river had already ticked off 16,000 

 fish. If the rush continued, late arrivals would destroy 

 the beds where the early comers had spawned. 'A crisis 

 was developing,' said Earle Jewell, a state biologist, 'so 

 we decided to charter purse seiaers on an emerg* ucy basis. 

 We got fishei'men out of bed on Friday night and man.^ged 

 to have seven of them fishing th*. outer bay on Saturday 

 and Sunday. 



"But the commercial fishermen hauled in 

 only 4,000 fish over the weekend. And by Sundiy the 

 counters had registered more th«n 70,000 swimming up the 

 Dungeness. Humph-jck salmon are small as :ia laion go, and 

 t"h<:?y went around, under and through nets int«:?nded for 

 bigger sockeye salmo;-!. Next the fisheries department 

 used beach seines manned by departmeoL personnel, but that 



