238 REPORT OF COMMISSIONER OF FISH AND FISHERIES. 
The yearly shipments have been as follows: 
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TEGO. EO hee sk ER en ec ceo SURE 5 SERRE Bn es See ee ee 4, 200 168 
ABU eho Orewa ened Sus 8 ge RCRA oe Be Oe aR ee es ee ae eee 3, 521 141 
TROON Ss AE eR ON Pee rs CECE nee eee en cee ee Soe ee eee oe 4, 125 165 
TILLAMOOK COUNTY. 
This county has a frontage of over 50 miles on the Pacific Ocean and 
is traversed by a number of rivers, chief among which are the NSiletz, 
Nestuggah, Tillamook, and Nehalem, the latter forming the boundary 
between Tillamook and Clatsop counties. The Nestuggah and Tillamook 
rivers empty into bays of the same name. The fisheries of the county 
are restricted to the capture of salinon, which enter the rivers in large 
quantities during the fall months. The relative abundance of chinook 
salmon in the streams of this county is greater than farther south. 
Some seasons the catch of chinooks will be fully equal in weight to that 
of silver salmon; at other times, as in the year 1892, the catch is often 
three-fourths silver salmon. Both fish run in greatest abundance about 
the same time, although the chinooks are the first to arrive, during 
August, while the silver salmon come in September. The movement 
of both species is over in November, when the fishing operations cease. 
A few fish continue to enter the river in the winter, in company with 
very large numbers of steelheads, but no attention is paid to them. 
The entire salmon catch of Tillamook River is utilized at a cannery 
located near the mouth of that stream. The number of cases packed 
during each of the four years 1889 to 1892 were as follows: 
Species. 1889. | 1890. | 1891. | 1892. 
Be eae | | Fé 
Cases. | Cases. Cases. Oases. 
Ghinovoksalmomn: j2se6.6 DasGks Joee eRe as Se eee tec tees 7, 000 4, 250 4, 423 4, 000 
Siliverssalmoee eye es tel Poe elo ela ae eit ace etc toe aeatoae eee 3,600 | 12, 000 | 2, 100 14, 500 
otal: esa .hascse, ft ROE eee Ce ae Ee FRAG Gree eee PSD 10, 600 | 16, 250 | 6, 523 18, 500 
The Siletz River flows through an Indian reservation and the entire 
catch is obtained by Indians, who cure the fish for winter use. The 
annual quantity of salmon thus prepared is about 60,000 pounds. 
CLATSOP COUNTY (NEHALEM RIVER). 
The fisheries of the ocean side of this county are carried on only 
in the Nehalem River. Those in the Columbia River will be included 
in the general remarks on that river which follow. The Nehalem is a 
small stream rising in the Coast Range, in Clatsop County, and flowing 
southwesterly to the Pacific, which it enters at the southern end of 
the county, whose boundary it forms. Its fisheries, which are of some 
importance, are carried on in the fall, when there is a run of chinook 
and silver salmon in the river. With the exception of a few salmon 
