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the well-known fish dealer of New York, to the late Col. Marshall 
McDonald, 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 
undertaken by a commercial trading company who control that country, and these 
salmon have been taken from a river where nene have been caught before, and my 
information is that they catch fish weighing as much as 150 pounds each. The above 
lot of fish was brought frozen to Tacoma and then shipped by refrigerator car to Chi- 
cago, where they were sold to Mr. Booth, of the Booth Packing Co., Chicago. Mr. Booth 
has declined to pay for them because of their not being in satisfactory condition. 
Nothing further appears to have been done in this line until in 1903, 
when a Berlin fish merchant outfitted and sent to the Siberian coast 
a refrigerator steamer with a capacity of 2,500 tons. The fish were 
caught mainly in the Amur River and were frozen immediately after 
being brought aboard. In all, 160,000 salmon were obtained, and ~ 
these were in excellent condition when landed at Hamburg, Germany. 
In 1907 the Salmon Steam Fishing Co., a combined British and 
Japanese company, chartered the steamers Zenobia and Zephyrus. 
These vessels were fitted with refrigerating apparatus and cold-stor- 
age chambers and sent to the Kamchatkan Peninsula to get a cargo. 
Both secured good cargoes. 
In 1909 two refrigerating steamers visited the coast and froze salmon 
for the European market. One vessel was outfitted by a British 
company and the other by a German company, J. Lindenberger (Inc.). 
The latter reported that the dog salmon, the principal species frozen, 
were large and very bright. The British steamer left Kngland in 
April and arrived home again late in December. 
CANNING SALMON. 
In 1900 the Kamchatka Commercial & Industrial Co. (Ltd.), was 
organized at St. Petersburg, Russia, by A. T. Prozoraf, president of 
the St. Petersburg Chamber of Commerce; P. M. Grunwalt; H. T. M. 
Court, and A. A. Prozoraf, secretary. A complete canning outfit was 
urchased in the United States, and the first cannery in Siberia estab- 
ished at Petropavlovsk, Avacha Bay, Kamchatka. 
. The San Francisco Trade Journal, under date of December 19, 1902, 
printed the following item relating to the operations of this cannery: 
On December & the Russian barkentine Bitte arrived from Petropavlovsk, Siberia, 
with 10,436 cases canned salmon. This is the first consignment of salmon received 
from them. 
The greater part of the pack comprised dog salmon, although they 
were labeled ‘‘pink” salmon, the rest being reds and kings. 
In 1903 the company did not operate, the fishing season being 
devoted to moving the plant to Ust-Kamchatka, at the mouth of the 
Kamchatka River, where, after being in use altogether for two or 
three years, it was abandoned and left all standing. 
In 1907 two canneries were established in the estuary of the Amur 
River, near Nikolaevsk, but beyond getting out samples they were 
never operated. 
In 1910 A. G. Denbigh, an Englishman, built a modern cannery 
near the second site of the Kamchatkan Commercial & Industrial Co. 
That year the cannery produced only about 10,000 cases, but each 
year since the equipment of the plant has been enlarged and improved 
until in 1913 the pack amounted to 60,000 cases. Early in 1914 a 
