FISHERIES OF SIBERIA 



By Boris Baievsky 

 Russian Expert, European Division, Bureau of Foreign and Domestic Commerce 



CONTENTS 



Page 



Introduction - 37 



Fisheries.. 38 



Species offish 39 



Production 41 



Russian far eastern waters 42 



Catch 43 



Southwestern district 47 



Nikolayevsk-on-Amur district... 50 



Okhotsk-Kamchatka region 53 



Canning 56 



Okhotsk district... 56 



Page 



Fisheries — Continued. 



Okhotsk-Kamchatka region — Continued. 



West Kamchatka district 58 



East Kamchatka district 60 



Sakhalin district 62 



Other waters 62 



Lena-Kolyma region 62 



Lake Baikal region 63 



Yenisei region 63 



Oh region 63 



Baraha region 64 



Bibliography 64 



INTRODUCTION 



Available material on the fishery industries of Siberia is frag- 

 mentary, conditional, and far from being complete. However, it is 

 hoped that the present report will provide an index as to the relative 

 importance of these industries and supply a better basis for forming 

 an opinion when the subject of the fish supplies of Siberian waters is 

 discussed. Conversion of Russian rubles has been made at 2 rubles 

 to the dollar, while poods have been converted into pounds. 



This report is one of a series of monographs on the subject " Siberia: 

 Resources and Possibilities." The purpose of this series is to place 

 before the American public reference material containing the most 

 up-to-date information available. Other reports covering climate, 

 soil, population, agriculture, fur-bearing animals, minerals and 

 metals, transportation, trade, and industry, all prepared by the 

 author of this paper, will either be published by the Department of 

 Commerce or made available for examination by interested persons. 

 The section relating to zinc resources was published in the January, 

 1926, issue of the magazine of the American Zinc Institute. 



A brief recapitulation of this series of studies, each of which covers 

 a special subject worked out in sufficient derail to meet the require- 

 ments of business men interested in a particular line, will be released 

 shortly as No. 36 of the Trade Promotion Series. The sections on 

 "Iron and Alloy Metals" and "Forest Resources of Siberia," have 

 been issued as Trade Information Bulletins Nos. 359 and 378, respec- 

 tively, of the Bureau of Foreign and Domestic Commerce, Depart- 

 ment of Commerce. 



> Appendix II to the Report of the U. S. Commissioner of Fisheries for 1926. B. F. Doc. 1006. 



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