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than a year ago. Tlioy liave beeu cared for by our State commission 

 at tlie hatcliery at Corry until delivered to me on June 22." 



Canned-salmon trade. — Salmon are caught and canned on the 

 Sacramento River in this State, ou seven rivers in Oregon, on Puget 

 Souud aud the Chehalis River in Washington Territory, on Alert Bay 

 aud the Fraser and Skeena Rivers in British Columbia, and one or more 

 rivers in Alaska. ]\Ioie than one-half of the quantity packed must be 

 credited to the Columbia River. Carefully compiled statistics by Field 

 & Stone show the pack of 18S5 to have been as follows : 



Cases. 



C:ililV)rnift 48,500 



Orogou 592,200 



Washington Territory 13,300 



Alaska -. 74,850 



Jiritish Columbia 106,865 



Total pack, 1885 835,715 



Total pack, 1884 985,295 



Decrease in 1885 ... 149,580 



TJie decrease in production and the losses by sea, amounting to 

 102,080 cases, have put the market on a better basis than it has been 

 for three years. [Weekly Bulletin, San Francisco, February 24, 18SG.] 



A LARGE SALMON. — On January 31, 1885, an unusually large salmon 

 was taken at Woudrichem, weighing 5S^ pounds, and measuring 51 

 inches in length aud about 20.^ inches in circumference. It was sold for 

 $33.25. [From the Journal of the Society for the Promotion of the 

 Fresh-water Fisheries in the Netherlands, Amsterdam, December 4, 

 1885.] 



Salmon sold at Billingsgate. — The sixth annual report by the 

 council to the members of the Scotch Fisheries Imi^rovement Associa- 

 tion, May, 188C, gives in an appendix the figures from which the follow- 

 ing table is extracted. The table was compiled from returns furnished 

 by Forbes, Stewart & Co., showing the amount of salmon sold at the 

 Billingsgate (London) market during the ten years preceding 188G. The 

 returns were given in boxes, and have been reduced to pounds on the 

 basis of 100 pounds to the box. 



Eels consumed in England.— Tn London and vicinity over 3,250,000 

 pounds of eels, valued at $050,000, were consumed last year. About 

 800,000 iwunds additional passed through the markets. Of the total 



