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SALMON FISHERIES OF PACIFIC COAST. 



Investment, apparatus, etc. — Puget Sound leads in the total invest- 

 ment. The principal forms of apparatus used in the waters of 

 Washington are gill nets, haul and purse seines, traps, and wheels. 



Investment in the Salmon Fisheries op Washington, by Waters, in 1909. 





a Aggregate length of 68,100 yards. 

 b Aggregate length of 800 yards. 

 c Aggregate length of 35,841 yards. 

 d Aggregate length of 300 yards. 

 e Aggregate length of 8,683 yards. 

 / Aggregate length of 112,915 yards. 

 9 Aggregate length of 20,000 yards. 



ft Aggregate length of 28,000 yards. 

 i Aggregate length of 268,200 yards. 

 i Aggregate length of 57,980 yards. 

 * Aggregate length of 27,960 yards. 

 I Aggregate length of 720 yards. 

 to Aggregate length of 5,370 yards. 

 n Aggregate length of 19,200 yards. 



Products.— The total catch amounted to 155,069,194 pounds, 

 valued at $4,335,702, of which Puget Sound produced 141,934,141 

 pounds, valued at $3,853,544. Trap nets were the most effective. 

 No humpbacks were taken commercially elsewhere than in Puget 

 Sound, while no sockeyes or bluebacks were taken commercially in 

 Willapa Harbor. 



