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tho catch ill 192S mihI hut liitlo inoio. than that lor 1925, 1920, or 1927. 

 Of tliis ainoinit, 84 per cent was taken hy l-nitod States craft and 16 

 per cent hy (^anadian craft. Of tlie total catcli, ry'.i per cent was 

 landed in Jiritish C\)liinihia. Owin^ to Prince Rupert, liritish 

 Colunihia, havin<2: excellent i-ail facilities with western points of 

 Canada and the United States, and heiiig in close proximity to the 

 fishino; grounds, the majority of the British Colunihia landings were 

 made there. The rest of them were made at Vancouver and Vic- 

 toria, British Colunihia. Twenty-two per cent of the total catch 

 was landed at poits in the State of Washington and 25 per cent at 

 ports in Alaska. 



UNITED STATES 



Operating units. — The halihut fleet of the United States numhered 

 226 vessels that fished regularly for halihut; their total net tonnage 

 was 5,474, they were manned by 1,494 fishermen, and operated 

 9,440 skates of lines. In addition to the regular vessels, 91 other 

 vessels and 87 boats landed halibut at times. These used 3,286 

 skates of lines. 



Catch. — The total weight of the catch as landed by all United 

 States craft fishing for halibut amounted to 50,834,190 pounds, valued 

 at $5,952,097. Of this amount, 92 per cent consisted of halibut, 5 

 per cent of sablefish, 2 per cent of "lingcod," and 1 per cent of rock- 

 fishes. The regular halibut vessels made 91 per cent of the total 

 catch, while the casual vessels and boats in this fishery caught the 

 rest, or 9 per cent. 



Halibut fishery of the Pacific coast, 1929 



UNITED STATES OPERATING UNITS; By FLEET classification 



