584 REPORT OF COMMISSIONER OF FISH AND FISHERIES. 
of smelt, 60,000 pounds of shad, and 15,100 pounds of cat-fish. Of 
this amount 300,000 pounds went to the canneries of the river, the 
remainder to cold-storage and fresh-fish firms. The smelt catch is 
made with dip nets in the Cowlitz River, the fishermen receiving 
prices that average only one-half cent a pound. 
Skamania County.—Twenty salmon fish-wheels in this county in 
1899 caught 1,248,416 pounds of salmon, valued at $51,456. Twenty- 
one gill nets caught 175,479 pounds of salmon, and two small pound 
nets took 19,263 pounds of salmon, the aggregate being 1,438,158 
pounds of salmon, of $58,694 value. The catch of 1895 amounted to 
1,484,723 pounds of salmon. During 1895 the sturgeon catch was 
considerable, being 1,177,106 pounds, against 7,554 pounds in 1899. 
The capital invested during 1899 amounted to $58,460; the fishermen 
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PACIFIC HERRING (Clupea pallasi). 
Clarke County.—The fisheries here are maintained by a few fisher- 
men of Vancouver, who fish in the Columbia River, the catch of salmon 
and cat-fish being marketed at Portland. 
Klickitat County.—This county is bordered on the south for nearly 
150 miles by the Columbia River. The fisheries receive but little 
attention. Near the western end of the county eight fish-wheels were 
operated with indifferent results. A few Indians used dip nets and a 
few hooks were employed for sturgeon. The total catch amounted to 
only 111,183 pounds of salmon and 44,078 pounds of sturgeon. 
The fishing beyond this section, higher up on the Columbia, is by 
the ranchers or Indians living near the stream, their small catch being 
for their own use. 
