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Products op the Fisheries of Washington in 1904. 



Species. 



Black bass 



Black cod 



Catfish 



Cod, salted 



Culms cod 



Flounders 



Halibut 



Herring 



Perch 



Rock-fish 



Salmon: 



Blueback, or sockeye 



Chinook 



Dog, or chum 



Silver 



Steelhead 



Species 



Shad 



Smelts 



Sole 



Sturgeon 



Shrimp 



Crabs 



Oysters, eastern. 

 Oysters, native. . 



Clams, hard 



Clams, soft 



Whales (3) 



Whalebone 



Total. 



Pounds. 



125,287 



1, 370, 322 



9,000 



L29.127 



429, 750 



723, 080 



a 269, 000 



J> 1,069, 461 



e774,568 



rf 132, 500 



8, 000 



88, 954, 790 



Value. 



81 , 753 



20.90:; 



180 



4,050 



26, 104 



22, 692 



122, 700 



279, 312 



54,512 



8,650 



600 



40,000 



2, 972, 633 



a 38,428 bushels. 



b 152,780 bushels. 



;96,821 bushels. 



d 13,250 bushels. 



THE FISHERIES BY COUNTIES. 



The commercial fisheries of Washington in 190-1 were prosecuted in 

 18 counties. These counties border the Pacific and its tributary bays 

 along the coast and the "Washington side of the Columbia River, the 

 greater part of the fishing on the river being near the coast. The 

 following tables show the number of persons employed and the capital 

 invested in the fisheries in each county in 1904, and also the quantity 

 and value of products taken, with the various forms of apparatus used, 

 in the vessel and shore fisheries: 



Statement, by Counties, of the Number of Persons Employed in the Fisheries 



of Washington in 1904. 



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