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FISHING-GEOU^^)S OF NORTH AMERICA. 



SALMON PEEPAEED BY NATIVES FOR HOME rSE. 



Recapiiulation of -catch of fish for home consumption and export in 1880. 



' Boxes of thirty pounds each. 



lu addition to tbe above the Western Fur and Trading Company have put ui) experimeutally: 



Smoked halibut, pouuds 500 



Codfisli tongues, iu kits of twenty-five i)Ounds eacli 10 



Halibut fius and najics, salted, iu kits of tuenty-Cve pounds each 10 



Frostfish, salted, in quarter barrels 10 



Salmon-trout, salted, in quarter barrels 30 



Codfish, dried, iu one hundred pound boxes 30 



Herring, salted, in quarter barrels 25 



Herrin-^, salted, in kits of twenty-five pounds each 100 



BELKOFFSKY PARISD. 



Since tlie fishes of this division are practically tlie same as those of the Shumagins, it 

 is unnecessary to furnish a separate list of them. Mr. Petroflf gives the population as six hundred 

 and sixty-nine. The division, in fact, includes the settlements on the Sliumagiu group, and this 

 group has essentially the same species as Kodiak Parish with tbe addition of Trichodon stelleri 

 and Bathymaster signattts, the latter being important mainly for bait. Bathymaster is called 

 "cusk" at Pirate Cove, Shumagins. 



Belkoifsky Parish contains the settlements of Belkoflsky, Nikolaievsky, Protassov, Vosues- 

 sensky, Unga, and Korovinsky. The wealthiest of all is Belkoifsky, which has an abundance 

 of fish, and takes nineteen hundred to two thousand sea-otter annually. Protassov takes five 

 hundred sea-otter and some walrus. Unga takes about six hundred sea-otter. Vosnesscnsky 

 and Korovinsky also take a few seaotter. The natives of Korovinsky are occasionally employed 

 at the cod-fishing stations of tbe Shumagins. At Belkoffskj-, a fine salmon river falls into the 

 l»ay. Natives take the salmon in small seines, and the women and children striut;' them o!i twigs 



