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SALMON FISHEKIES OF PACIFIC COAST. 



Miscellaneous Secondary Products Prepared in Alaska and the Pacific 

 Coast States in 1909 — Continued. 





a Represents 66,728 gallons. 



WASHINGTON. 



Owing to the quadrennially heavy run of sockeye salmon and the 

 biennial run of humpback salmon into Puget Sound occurring in 

 1909, the catch of both species of salmon was very heavy. The purse 

 seiners made exceptionally heavy catches of sockeye salmon, while 

 the traps had so many humpbacks in them that the greater part were 

 turned out, it being impossible to find a market for them. In many 

 places people were allowed to take away with them, free of charge, 

 as many humpbacks as they wished. 



In Grays Harbor the run of salmon was fairly good. On the 

 Quiniault River the Indians made very successful catches. Early in 

 the season a meeting of the tribe was held, and it was decided that a 



