Fg FISHING IN THE PRIAMUR DISTRICT OF SIBERIA. 
The catching of sea kale, crabs, shrimps, and trepang. is now 
almost exclusively carried on in Peter the Great Bay and the neigh- 
boring coast; it is concentrated in the hands of small fishermen who 
obtain special tickets for this purpose from the supervisor of the 
southwestern district. 
THE FISHING INDUSTRY IN 1913. 
Along the extensive coast line of the Priamur district many 
varieties of commercially valuable fish are found. The northern 
waters of Tchukotski and Kamchatka produce mostly salmon varieties, 
the principal of which are gorbusha, known in Alaska as humpback 
or pink salmon; keta, the Alaskan chum, or dog salmon; kisutch, the 
Alaskan coho, or silver salmon; tchavitchcha, the Alaskan king, or 
chinook salmon; krasnaya, the Alaskan sockeye, blueback, or red 
salmon, and golets, known in Alaska as Dolly Varden trout. 
Dolly Varden trout are occasionally caught, when they happen 
to run with the salmon. 
Undoubtedly there are other kinds of fish in these waters, for in 
years past American whalers visited the cod banks of Kamchatka, 
but at present there is no cod fishing. Practically no attention is 
paid to any but the salmon, the principal reason for this being the 
almost total absence of local population and supplies, compelling the 
fishermen to obtain laborers and all supplies from distant places. 
As soon as the run of the principal fish is over the station is closed, 
the men sent away, and no one is left to watch later runs or to study 
the possibilities. Also the early winters would prevent late shipping 
of fish if any were caught, and the catch would have to be held until 
the arrival of the first steamer in the spring. 
The waters of the Priamur district are subdivided into several 
sections. Following is given a short description of the characteristics 
of each. 
NIKOLAIEVSK DISTRICT. 
This district comprises the whole lower part of the Amur River 
from the village Zimmermanovka down to the mouth of the river, 
about 300 miles; the River Amgun, 200 miles; the Amur estuary, 
about 150 miles on the mainland and about 130 miles on the coast 
of Sakhalin Island and about 865 miles of the coast line on the 
southwestern shore of the Okhotsk Sea. 
In addition to the regular fish-catching stations there are the 
salting stations, which ae not catch but only buy and handle fish, 
caviar, etc., from other fishermen, mostly local peasants, natives, 
and industrial fishermen. These salting stations, as will be seen 
from the following table, are quite numerous. 
