SALMON FISHERIES OF PACIFIC COAST. 



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CANNING INDUSTRY, BY SPECIES AND WATERS. 



The tables below show separately, by waters and as far as possible 

 by species, the salmon canned on the Pacific coast from the beginning 

 of the industry until 1910. It is only within recent years that the 

 published statistics have shown the pack of the different species sep- 

 arately. In the early years of canning, the chinook, or quinnat, 

 salmon was used exclusively, the other species not being utilized until 

 the chinook had begun to decrease in abundance, or a demand had 

 arisen for a cheaper product. There is a very great difference in the 

 selling value of the highest and lowest grades, and it is necessaiy to 

 have complete statistical data now in order intelligently to compre- 

 hend the trend of the industry. While every effort has been made 

 to make these tables complete, there are, unfortunately, some gaps 

 which it was found impossible to fill. 



Pack of Canned Salmon on Puget Sound from 1877 to 1910. 



Year. 



Num- 

 ber of 

 can- 

 neries. 



Chinook. 



Cases. 



Value. 



Blueback. 



Cases. Value. 



Silver. 



Cases. 



1877. 

 1878. 

 1379. 

 L880. 

 L881 . 

 1882. 

 1883. 

 1884. 

 1885. 

 1886. 

 lssT. 

 1888. 

 1889. 

 lvo. 

 1891. 

 1892. 

 1893. 

 1894. 

 1895. 

 1896. 

 1897. 

 1898. 

 1899. 

 1900. 

 1901. 

 1902. 

 1903. 

 1904. 

 1905. 

 1906. 

 1907. 

 1908. 

 1909. 

 1910. 



5,000 



238 



1,300 





240 

 1,000 



382 



86 



1,200 



$1,200 



5,000 



2,101 



473 



6,480 



1,542 

 13.495 

 9,500 



11,21)0 

 24, 304 

 22, 350 



7,325 

 67,475 



39,045 

 50, 024 

 103,180 

 134,100 



5,538 



2,954 



47,852 



41,781 



65,143 



72, 979 



312,048 



252.000 



199,646 



229.800 



$24, 921 



11,816 



103,371 



188,014 



273, 108 



3o0, 299 



1,248,192 



1,058,400 



2,3iis.334 



1,149,000 



7,480 



3,000 



5,869 



7,206 



11,812 



22.418 



50,865 



82,640 



91,900 



98.000 



111,387 



128,200 



37,400 

 15,000 

 19,368 



24, 500 



154.218 

 204.448 

 282, 133 

 335,240 

 418.170 

 512, SOO 



30,049 

 14,500 

 14,441 

 1.804 

 8,139 

 1,814 

 95,210 

 13,019 

 10,064 



150,245 



72,500 

 69,352 

 9.922 

 18,834 

 16,326 

 666, 4?0 

 72, 004 

 00,324 



372,301 

 167,211 



109, 204 

 825, 453 

 178,748 

 93,122 

 170,951 

 1,097,904 

 248,014 



2,047,655 

 1,003.260 



653,871 

 4.952,718 

 1.251,230 



698,416 

 1,196,657 

 6,183,300 

 1,673,095 



85,817 

 103,450 

 IIS. 127 



94,497 

 119, 172 



12S.1I22 

 143,133 



1^2.755 



429,085 

 113,800 

 147.851 



337,174 

 172. is", 

 4-6,288 

 644,922 

 630,446 

 895, 153 



