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Fisheries of the Pvgei Sound district of Washington, 19S6 — Continued 

 CATCH: By gear— Continued 



1 Fished only on Indian reservations. 



2 In addition, the vessels of the Paciflc coast halibut fleet landed approximately 655,000 pounds of halibut, 

 sableflsh, and "lingcod" livers at Seattle, valued at $295,000. 



3 These cod were taken off Alaska. 



< Statistics on the catch of salmon except those taken by troll lines, are reported to the State in number 

 rather than pounds. The factors used in the above table for converting number of salmon to weight in 

 pounds were as follows: Blueback, red, or sockeye, 7 pounds; Chinook or king, 22 pounds; chum or keta« 

 11 pounds; humpback or pink, 5 pounds; and silver or coho, 8 pounds. 



' The weight of crabs shown is based on an average of 20 pounds per dozen. 



' Statistics on hard clams are based on yields of 28 percent edible meats for butter clams and 24 percent for 

 little neck clams. 



' Statistics on oysters shown are based on yields of 18 percent edible meats for native oysters and 10 per- 

 cent for Japanese oysters. 



• The weight of bay scallops is based on a yield of 17 percent edible meat. 



Fisheries of the coastal district of Washington, 1936 

 OPEilATINCr UNITS: By gear » 



1 In addition a combined fleet of 16 Piiget Sound and California purse seine vessels operated in the Wash- 

 ington coast pilchard fishery. Those vessels were manned by a total of 163 fishermen and had an aggre- 

 gate capacity of 654 net tons. Of the total vessels 15 were from Puget Sound and 1 from California. For 

 detailed statistics regarding the operating units in this fishery refer to the gear tables in the Puget Sound 

 and California sections of this report. 



