288 BUILETIN OF THE UNITED STATES FISH COMMISSION. 



overflows the banks, a great many of the young fish are carried through 

 the breaks and low places and are left to die by thousands. At other 

 seasons, when the first rise is moderate, they go safely to the ocean 

 through the main channel. 



Whatever may be the cause, or the combination of causes, all parties 

 agree in the opinion that artificial hatching and the restocking of our 

 streams is the onlj' means by which the required supply of salmon can 

 be maintained ; and that unless iueasures are taken other than those 

 now in operation the salmon supply in our rivers must soon become 

 exhausted. No artificial hatching has been done, and consequently no 

 young salmon have been planted in our rivers, since the suspension of 

 the United States salmon breeding station on the McCloud River. The 

 California State hatchery, which was established on Hat Creek in 1885^ 

 has thus far been of no use, owing to the fact that salmon do not run 

 there in sufficient numbers to justify the taking of eggs. 



United States Trout Ponds, 



McCloud River Station, 



Baird, CaL, October 4, 1886. 



Table I. — Siatisiics of the packing of salmon on the Pacific coast from Idb3 to I8S6, 



showing the total production for each river. 



Locality/ 



Sacramento Eiver, California; 



Eel River, California 



Kogue River, Oregon 



Coquille River, Oregon 



Unipqua River, Oregon 



Smith's River, Oregon 



Tillamook River, Oregon 



Olnmbia River, Oregon and Washington Ter. 



Puget Sound, Washington 



Fraser River, British Columbia 



Rivers in Biitish Columbia 



Alaska 



1883. 



Cases. 

 100, 000 



15, 000 



16, 000 



7, OCO 



629, 400 



175,000 



§68, 000 



36, 000 



Total 1,106,400 



1864. 



Cases. 



95, 000 



8,000 



12, 000 



7,300 



3, 700 



5. 000 



4.500 



C29, 000 



175, 800 

 45, QUO 



985, 300 



1885. 



Cases. 



48, 500 

 5. 700 

 9,100 

 3. 8(i0 



10, 500 

 1, ."too 



9,800 



553, 800 



48, 500 



106, 900 

 74, 800 



872, 900 



1886.t 



30, 00 



2,000 



521, 000 



lOO.OOO 



653, 00i> 



* The reports from other rivers in California have not yet been obtained. 

 tThe 1886 statistics are incomplete. 



; The estimated pack on the Sacramento previous to 1883 was : 1878, 36,500 ; 1879, 31,000 ; 

 1881, 181,200; 1882, 200,300. 

 § Exclusive of the Eraser River pack. 



1880,51.000 



Table II. — Salmon canneries on the Sacramento Eiver, 



Name of cannery. 



Location. 



Benicia Packing Company . . . Beuicia 



Caiquinez Packing Company. do 



Booth & Co., S '. Black Diamond 



Joseph Hume do 



Bra<ltcird &, Company j Chipp's Island. 



Sacramento River Packing Co . . do 



Couitland Packing Company Courtland 



Josei)h Black i Martinez 



Capitol Packing Company I Sacramento 



Brand. 



Sac. River salmon. 



Spread Eagle 



Seal 



Pioneer 



Crescent 



Star of Columbia . 



Spring Sac. fish. .. 

 Capitiil 



Agents in Sari Francisco. 



George W. Hume. 

 Do. 



ScofPhler & Gibbs. 

 Joseph Uume. 

 W. B Bradford. 



Do. 

 "William T. Coleman & Co. 

 Cutting and Packing Companj'. 

 D. L. Beck &. Sons. 



