PACIFIC SALMON FISHERIES. 87 
chinook salmon in the Strait of Juan de Fuca. A large number of 
white fishermen also engage in this fishery at the present time in the 
same waters, while others troll for the same species, but more par- 
ticularly silvers, in parts of Puget Sound proper. The ordinary 
trolling line, with a spoon instead of bait, is used. 
Many of the trollers use power boats, and in this event four and 
sometimes six lines are used. One and sometimes two short poles 
are run out from each side of the boat (when two are used on a side, 
one is shorter than the other), the butt being dropped into a chock. 
Two lines are generally trailed from the stern. Mt the end of each 
eas is a very short line with a small tin can attached. A few peb- 
les are in the can, and as the launch moves slowly through the 
water with all her lines set, the troller knows when he has a bite by 
the rattling of the pebbles in the can. Each of the lines attached 
to a pole is also connected with the boat by a short line from the 
side to a point on the line about 20 feet from the tip of the latter. 
When a fish is hooked, the fisherman merely pulls in the line by 
. of the short piece and then can haul the fish in hand over 
rand. 
The most remarkable trolling region is in southeast Alaska. For 
some years the Indians here had been catching king salmon for 
their own use during the spring months, and about the middle of 
January, 1905, king salmon were noticed in large numbers in the 
vicinity of Ketchikan. Observing the Indians catching these, sev- 
eral white fishermen decided to engage in the pursuit, shipping 
the product fresh to Puget Sound ports. They met with such 
success that 271,644 ounds, valued at $15,600, were shipped. The 
next year several ae the mild-cure dealers established plants in 
this region, thus furnishing a convenient and profitable market for 
the catch, and as a result the fishery has grown until in 1915 
2,170,400 pounds of king salmon and 54,400 pounds of coho salmon 
were caught and marketed. The length of the fishing season has 
also lengthened until now the business is prosecuted vigorously 
during about seven months in the year, and in a desultory manner 
for two or three months more, only the severe winter weather pre- 
venting ee the rest of the year. 
In southeast Alaska the fishermen generally use either the Hen- 
dryx Seattle trout-bait spoon No. 5 or the Hendryx Puget Sound 
No. 8. The former comes in nickel or brass or nickel and brass, the 
full nickel preferred. The Siwash hook No. 9/0, known as the Vic- 
toria hook in British Columbia, is in quite general use. As a rule, 
but one hook is used, and this hangs from a ring attached to a swivel 
just above the spoon, while the point of the hook comes a little below 
the bottom of the spoon. Occasionally double or treble hooks are 
used. Some fishermen use bait, and when this is done the herring, 
the bait almost universally employed, is so hooked through the body 
as, when placed in the water, to stretch out almost straight and face 
forward as in life. 
There are a large number of power-boat trollers in this region. 
These trollers generally use one pole on a side and one at the stern. 
The rowboat trollers use but one line, which is attached to a thwart 
in the boat, handy to their reach when rowing, and trailing out from 
the stern of the boat. 
