108 PACIFIC SALMON FISHERIES. 
weighing 14 tons, were prepared, and there were 20 tons from Cape 
Observation. 
According to the statistics of the Fisheries Control, the catch of 
salmon in the Amur River in 1910 was as follows: Spring salmon, 
7,701,344; summer salmon, 21,384,549; autumn salmon, 9,546,254; — 
in all, 38,632,147. Of this number 34,649,025 fish were marketed 
and the balance consumed locally. Japan bought 23,228,481 fish, 
valued at $473,800; the balance was valued at. $681,345. In addition 
there were 4,766,784 pounds of salmon caviar, valued at an average 
price of $0.114 per pound, totaling $543,413, which brings the total 
value of the salmon catch and by-products up to $1,698,558. During 
the same year, in Peter the Great Bay, 8,263 salmon were caught. 
The number of salmon caught in eastern and western Kamchatka 
and in the bays and rivers in this region not included in the Fishing 
Convention, and at the Russian river stations, in 1911, was as follows: 
Western Eastern River Bays and 
Species. Kam- am- SERS river Total. 
chatka. chatka. , outlets. 
Chayitoh (xing). . soc. - ou cmune suse sdueech 5, 421 7, 818 207 590 14, 036 
Eten CCHTIE) Mes ae 5. Shee See SR BR 3,082,300 | 2,675,000 297, 300 390,790} 6,945,390 
am aga Ad) n= oe = be ete miele Se pei=fniel ats at 2, 136, 800 747, 000 689, 000 236, 240 3, 809, 040 
Garbusha (humpback).......-- ee 39, 448,500 | 1,411,000 | 1,320,200 175,980 | 42,355, 680 
W<ishutchi(Cono)eese eee eee nes 327, 200 179,000 114, 200 7,770 628, 170 
TOtale cccweckaseccccs cosh aceeesore 45,000,221 | 5,019,818 | 2,420,907 | 1,311,370} 53,752,316 
In the Okhotsk district the catch amounted to 827,274 keta and — 
37,790 krasnaia. Of salmon caviar 489 tons were prepared by the 
Japanese and 60 tons by the Russians. 
In 1915 about 50,000 barrels of pickled salmon were prepared on 
the Amur River. In the sections covered by the Fishing Convention 
6,000,000 salmon, mostly keta with a few krasnaia, were dry-salted, 
while 80,000,000 humpback salmon, called ‘‘salmon trout” in Japan, 
were so prepared. No fish were frozen for the European market, due 
to the war. A considerable quantity of caviar was prepared, but the 
quantity is unknown. The pack of canned salmon is shown elsewhere. 
FREEZING SALMON. 
As when the Russians owned Alaska, the exploitation of Siberia 
was carried on for many years by trading companies with large powers 
granted by the Government. In 1892 a very enterprising company 
was in charge, judging from the following extract from a letter 
written on February 2, 1893, by the late Eugene G. Blackford, the 
well-known fish dealer of New York, to the late Col. Marshall McDon- 
ald, then United States Commissioner of Fish and Fisheries: 
I have just learned of the arrival in Chicago of 60,000 pounds of frozen salmon. 
They were caught in Petropavlovsk, Kamchatka. These fish are a new venture 
* di 
Ata 
