74 FISHERY INDUSTRIES OF THE UNITED STATES. 
ing machine, which eviscerates and cuts off the head, fins, and tail 
of the fish. 
When fishing on the outside in the ocean fishermen leave the village 
of Neah Bay or vicinity at about 1 a. m. and reach the fishing grounds 
at4o’clock. The best trolling is supposed to be at daylight. Fishing 
is usually continued until dark; if intending to remain the boat is 
anchored on the bank overnight, and fishing is resumed the next 
morning and continued until noon of the following day, when a return 
is made to Neah Bay for the night. Another trip is made to the 
fishing grounds on the following morning. These return trips to 
Neah Bay are often necessitated by the failure of the tender to get 
out to the fishing grounds. 
The boats used for trolling are of gasoline power, and, with few 
exceptions, are less than 5 net tons in size and very seldom have more 
than one man aboard. A considerable number of rowboats, however, 
are also used in the fishery. It is a common occurrence for a gasoline 
boat to have two rowboats in tow while trolling, and occasionally as 
many as four may be under tow. When the two rowboats are being 
towed each will be off the quarter of the gas boat and about 200 feet 
behind it. In the case of four rowboats the second two boats are at 
a distance of about 600 feet behind the gasoline boat. The distance 
between the boats is so arranged that the lines will not interfere with 
each other. The common practice is for the owner of the rowboat to 
give one-third of his catch to the owner of the gas boat for being 
towed. It is said that rowboat fishing is often as successful as that 
from the gas boat. 
Gas boats usually have three lines fishing at a time—one from each 
quarter of the boat and the other attached to a pole 6 feet long, 
placed upright near the center of the boat and running off from the 
stern. The side lines are worked from outriggers 10 feet long, pro- 
jecting out from the side of the boat. No bait, but a spoon is always 
used. Until recent years two and sometimes three hooks were used, 
but now the common practice is to use only one hook. 
Pound nets.—Based upon the value of the catch, pound nets ranked 
second in importance among the forms of fishery apparatus used in 
Washingtonin 1915. The catch for that year amounted to 37,560,330 
pounds, valued at $991,115, an increase of 10,102,969 pounds and 
$130,818 since 1904. There were 444 pound nets, costing $1,100,103, 
operated in the State in 1915. Itis customary among the owners of 
pound nets in Washington to include in the value of the pound net 
the estimated value of the ‘‘stand,”’ or bottom, where the net is set, 
but that practice has not been followed in this report. It is no doubt 
true that in most cases considerable value does attach to the stand, 
which is proved by the fact that even though a pound net is not to 
be fished a license is nevertheless secured from the State simply to 
hold the stand, for which large sums have often been offered. Pound 
nets are quite generally used throughout the Puget Sound region and 
also in the Columbia River as far up as commercial fishing is followed. 
The nets used in the Puget Sound region are much larger and more 
expensive than those used in the Columbia River and are commonly 
owned by corporations, while those in the latter stream are owned 
mostly by individuals. The name “trap” is always used for pound 
nets in this region. 
