PACIFIC SALMON FISHERIES. 
By Joun N. Coss. 
INTRODUCTION. 
The most valuable commercial fisheries in the world, excepting 
only the oyster and herring fisheries, are those supported by the salm- 
ons. Of these the most important by far are the salmon fisheries 
of the Pacific coast of North America, where California, Oregon, 
Washington, and Alaska, including also British Columbia, possess 
industries representing millions of dollars of investment and millions 
of output annually. In Siberia the fishery is increasing in impor- 
tance annually as means of transportation become better, while Japan 
is also becoming a large factorin the salmon markets of the world 
through her investments in the salmon fisheries of Siberia and, to a 
lesser extent, through fisheries prosecuted in her own waters. 
In this revised report? considerable new material has been added, 
while some of the chapters have been entirely remodeled and mate- 
rially enlarged. The statistical data have been brought up to Janu- 
ary 1, 1916. 
aThe salmon fisheries of the Pacific coast. By John N. Cobb. Bureau of Fisheries document no. 751, 
180 p. 1911. 
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