62 



REPORT OF COMMISSIONER OF FISH AND FISHERIES. 



Products. 



The oysters, clams, crabs, oil, etc., which have been reduced to the 

 common unit of a pound in the preceding table, and the seal, otter, and 

 other pelts, of which no number is given, are shown separately in the 

 following table : 



Items. 



Clams bushels . . 



Ovsters do 



Mussels do 



Crabs number. . 



Hair-seal and sea-lion pelts do 



Fur-seal pelts do 



Sea-otter pelts .'- - do 



Whale oil gallons.. 



California. 



40, 470 



178, 645 



48, 000 



954, 107 



o535 



14,710 



235 



209, 979 



Oregon. 



825 

 2,450 



1,375 



2,945 

 13 



Washington. 



11, 400 

 164, 924 



26, 333 

 "'9,143' 



Total. 



52, 695 

 346, 019 



48, 000 



981, 815 



535 



26, 798 



248 



209, 979 



a Includes 17 live sea lions, which sold for $850. 



Mr. Wilcox was able to obtain complete statistics of the salmon indus- 

 try of Alaska, through the courtesy of packers whom he visited in San 

 Francisco and other ])laces. This informatiou, with that relating to the 

 cod, whale, and fur-seal fisheries of that Territory, which are tributary 

 to San Francisco, will permit the presentation of figures representing 

 the entire fishery industry of the Pacific Coast of the United States. 



