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SALMON FISHERIES OF PACIFIC COAST. 

 STATISTICS BY COUNTIES. 



Persons employed. — The total number of persons employed was 

 2,675, Contra Costa County leading with 774 persons. 



Persons Engaged in the California Salmon Fisheries, by Counties, in 1909. 



a All the shoresmen reported for Alameda County and part of those reported for San Francisco County 

 are employed by one of the Alaskan canning companies and have been reported here, as they are employed 

 here the whole year. 



Investment, apparatus, etc. — The total investment amounts to 

 $1,232,960. The shore property reported for Alameda County belongs 

 to one of the companies operating in Alaska. Contra Costa leads in 

 the total investment. Gill nets, haul seines, and trolling lines are 

 the principal forms of apparatus in use. 



Investment in the Salmon Fisheries op California, by Counties, in 1909. 



