812 REPORT OF COMMISSIONER OF FISH AND FISHERIES. 



Answer. I Lave uo data to euable me to auswer this question with 

 any degree of fullness. 



Question. Answer the same question for one seine, or pound, of speci- 

 fied length. 



Answer. Below may be found the actual catch at the fishery of J. W. 

 and V. Cook (Oregon Packing Company), Clifton, Oreg., at various 

 times in 1874 and 1875. 



An average of twenty boats (i e., seines each 1,200 feet long) took in — 



Salmon. 



April, 1874 7, 570 



May, 1874 , 23, 486 



June, 1874 32, 784 



A much smaller number of boats took in July, 1874 , . . . 33, 974 



This averages for one boat (seine) in — 



Saluiou. 



April, 1874 378 



May, 1874 1, 174^^ 



June, 1874 1, 6-i9^ 



July, 1874, probably upwards of 2, 500 



For the whole season of 1874, beginning about the middle of April and 

 ending about the middle of August, at the fishery of the Oregon Pack- 

 ing Company, eleven boats brought in salmon as follows: 



Salmon. 



No. 5 3,939 



No. 6 5,833 



No. 7 5,440 



No. 8. 5,735 



At the same place in 1874 and 1875 the daily catch of one of the boats 

 taken at random was as follows : 



Salmon. 



No. 1 4,819 



No.2 5,740 



No. 3 5,441 



No.4 4,391 



Salmon. 



No. 9 5,635 



No. 10 5,169 



No. 11 2,426 



Date. 



Aprils.. 

 Aprils.. 

 April 4 . . 

 April 5.. 

 April C. 

 April 7. . 

 April 8. 

 April 9. 

 April 10 

 April 11 

 April 12 

 April 13 

 April 14 

 April 15 



Salmon, 

 1874. 



6 

 10 

 4 



Sunday. 

 •20 

 16 

 20 

 23 

 19 

 16 



Sunday. 

 16 

 19 

 35 



Salmon, 

 1875. 



April 16 . 

 April 17. 

 April 18. 

 April 19 . 

 April 20. 

 April 21. 

 May 1 . . . 

 May 2... 

 May 3 . . . 

 May 4 . . . 

 May 5 . . . 

 May 6. .. 

 May 7 . . . 



Salmon, 

 1874. 



26 

 41 

 36 

 Sunday. 

 44 

 24 

 19 

 10 



Salmon, 

 1875. 



34 

 71 

 Sunday. , 

 46 

 35 

 30 

 51 



Table shoicing mimber of salmon caught by one seine from July 15 to July 



28, Sundays excluded. 



Salmon. 



July 20 89 



July21 128 



July22 115 



July 23 108 



July 24 124 



Salmon. 



July 15 90 



July 16 80 



July 17 90 



July 18 73 



July 19 



Salmon. 



July 25 173 



July 26 



July 27 158 



July28 147 



