bt FISHING IN THE PRIAMUR DISTRICT OF SIBERIA, 
at $40,000, 19,800 cases of humpbacks worth $120,000, and 4,000 
cases of chums worth $24,000. Also 5,000 pounds of dry-salted 
humpbacks were prepared, as well as 7,200 pounds of salmon fertil- 
izer worth $72. This plant was built in 1914. The buildings are of 
steel shipped from England; the machinery is all American. One net 
is operated by the company and one by local inhabitants known as 
“eolonists.”’ 
The Osernaya River is a natural place to find red, or sockeye, sal- 
mon, but owing to the Japanese concessions higher up the coast very 
few reds now reach the river. 
Another plant is operated on the Bolsheresk River, the shore prop- 
erty being valued at $5,000. This plant employs 200 whites and 50 
Japanese and uses two 250-foot haul or beach sees. The product 
in 1915 was 700,000 pounds of pickled sockeye salmon. The conces- 
sion at present is used for salting only, but the erection of a cannery 
for humpback salmon is being discussed. No reds are found in the 
river, but there is an abundance of humpbacks. 
A Japanese firm has a cannery 5 miles north of the Osernaya River, 
employing 400 Japanese; the land plant is valued at $35,000. The 
plant has one transporting vessel worth $1,500, six lighters worth 
$1,000, and three 5,000-foot floating traps valued at $5,000. This 
cannery was built in 1913. The building is of wood and was con- 
structed first in Hakodate, taken apart, and reassembled in Kam- 
chatka. The machinery is American made. In- 1914 the can- 
making machines were removed to Hakodate, and the cans are now 
made there. The company has three coast concessions, one at the 
cannery and one on either side. They put up 27,000 cases of sock- 
eyes in 1918 and 15,000 cases in 1914. The product in 1915 was 
20,000 cases (48 half-pound flat cans per case) of sockeyes, worth 
$100,000; 18,000 cases (48 one-pound flat cans per case) of sockeyes, 
worth $126, 000, and 15,000 cases (48 one-pound flat cans per case) of 
humpbacks, om $60,000. They also dry-salt a considerable 
quantity of humpbacks. 
Farther up the coast there is another cannery which makes its cans 
and does all work by hand. Beyorid this plant there seem to be no 
sockeye salmon along the west coast of Kamchatka. 
East Kamchatka district —This district covers the coast line of the 
eastern Kamchatka and Anadir Peninsulas, about 1,843 miles. The 
majority of the fishing stations are concentrated achat Karaguinsky 
(Count Litka) Bay, in the straits from the Malo-Voyam River to 
Kitchigin River, about 135 miles long, and in the region of Kamchatka 
River. 
The area closed to fishing in this district consists of the shore line, 
7 miles to the west and 22 miles to the east of the mouth of Kamchatka 
River. 
