PACIFIC SALMON FISHERIES 



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One excellent result of the agreement with the National Canners 

 Association was the installation of a northwest branch laboratory 

 at Seattle in 1919, where a staff of scientists have since been at work 

 on the many problems which beset the salmon canner. A number of 

 these have been carried to a successful conclusion and the results 

 published ; and due to this the quality of the annual pack has been 

 wonderfully enhanced with a corresponding financial return to the 

 individual packer. 



INVESTIGATION OF CANNED SALMON INDUSTRY 



In 1917 and 1918 an investigation of the canned salmon industry 

 was made by the Federal Trade Commission and many valuable 

 statistical data were gathered and published. ^^ 



The following table shows, with other data, the average number 

 of fish per case of each grade packed in the different geographical 

 sections. 



Number of fish canned and purchased, number of cases packed, and average number 



of fish per case ' 



1 Report of the Federal Trade Commission: Op. cit., pp. 15, 16. 



2 Coastal streams in Washington, Oregon, and California. 



33 Report of the Federal Trade Commission on Canned Foods. 

 83 pp. Washington, 1919. 



Canned salmon. December, 1918. 



