314 BULLETIN OF THE UNITED STATES FISH COMMISSION. 



of 25,000 cases, or 1,152,000 cans, covering every available space of the 

 immense lower floor to the lieigbt of over 5 feet, the largest number 

 ever packed by any one establishment daring the same period of time. 

 Two hundred and fifty barrels of salmon, or about 13,000, were also 

 salted within the month. The company ship their goods direct to Lon- 

 don or Liver{)ool through the firm of Welch, Rithet & Co., of Victoria. — 

 [Newton H. Chittenden^ in " Guide to British Columbia."] 



The salmon canneries on Feaser River. — Mr. Louis C. d'Homer- 

 gue, of Brooklyn, N. Y., writing to the Daily Eagle of that city from 

 San Franciso, Cal., in April, 1S82, says: "The salmon canneries on the 

 Fraser River are eleven in number, and these caught and shipped to 

 England 580,000 boxes, containing each 48 cans of a pound each, while 

 on the Columbia River, in the United States, thirty-two canneries only 

 made 300,000 boxes of 4 dozen cans each. In this country our resources 

 are allowed to be drawn ui)ou without regulation, while in the English 

 possessions everything is well regulated. Under English laws no can- 

 neries or fish-rendering works under the new law can be established on 

 the Mackenzie and Fraser rivers, except at a location indicated by the 

 fishing commissioner under a yearly license of $250 and a tonnage 

 license for each boat employed ; they can only fish for certain fish at 

 and between certain times, and then only in the districts indicated 

 within their licenses. The number of factories at various localities is 

 left to the discrimination of the fishing commissioner, who being aj)- 

 poiuted for life at a round yearly salary and being a man of great 

 knowledge in such matters cannot be improperly influenced. The re- 

 sult of tins restri<;tive system is that every British subject engaged 

 in the fisheries is doing well and the fish are plentiful, while those on 

 the Cohnnbia are scratching every year harder, from the comparative 

 scarcity of fish, which will, probably, in a few years disappear, as they 

 have in the Sacramento River." 



Hatching Salmon at Dennysville, Maine. — Mr. Benjamin Lin- 

 coln makes the following statement: The Fish Commissioners of our 

 State sent me 40,000 salmon eggs. I succeeded in hatching out and 

 putting into the river 36,000 young salmon in good condition, which, if 

 nothing hapi)ens, ought to increase the run of salmon in our river. 



It is stated that this river (the Dennys) is the only river in the United 

 States in which the salmon will take an artificial fly. Do you know 

 whether that is the case ; and, if so, what can be the cause of it ! We 

 have taken three here this spring with rods. But it is so cold and wet 

 that there are but very few in the river. 



Dennysville, Me., June 2, 1884. 



Ripe sculpins in Vineyard Sound.— Mr. Vinal N. Edwards, in 

 letters to Prof. S. F. Baird, writes as follows: "Day before yesterday 

 i found sculpins in the Sound very plentifully, and every one was a 



