PACIFIC COD FISHERIES. 45 
season’s catch. The use of these engines did not prove satisfactory 
for a number of reasons, viz: The men generally knew nothing about 
their operation and care and grossly neglected them; the weight of 
the motor cut down the number of fish the dory could carry, while 
in rough weather, with the motor going and a load of fish aboard. 
the dory would ship heavy seas. 
Small gasoline launches are beginning to be a factor in the Alaska 
station fishing. Some of these are dories, some Columbia River type 
of boats, while others are of nondescript types. Gasoline engines 
ranging from 2 to 12 horsepower have been installed in them. The 
chief disadvantage in the use of these is that the regular hand-line 
fishermen operating from dories refuse generally to permit the op- 
erators of these power boats to join with them in dressing the catch, 
and as a result they have to have a separate dress house, and unless 
there are enough of them to form a regular dress gang they find 
the business of dressing the fish rather laborious. Two or more men 
generally go in the power boats, and as they are enabled to go with 
perfect safety to the outer and less-worked banks, their daily catch 
is much larger proportionately than that of the regular hand-liners. 
The use of power also gives them a considerable advantage over the 
regular dory men, as they can go out in weather which would compel 
the sail and row dory to remain in port, and can go much farther 
away from the station and be sure of being able to get back again. 
The number of these boats is increasing yearly, and it is to be 
hoped that they will continue to increase, as the owners of them 
are amongst the most industricus of the fishermen—men who do 
not waste all they make in riotous living, as is the custom with the 
vast majority of the fishermen. The larger companies have never 
encouraged the use of power boats, as they feared that in time the 
men operating them would become too independent and eventually 
become station owners themselves. 
Nearly every hand-line fisherman carries a sail in his dory. The 
mainsail is usually of the leg-of-mutton variety. Some have a jib, 
while a few also use a staysail. The sails are generally made from 
sheeting, which is much lighter than canvas. Fishermen are ex- 
pected to furnish their own sails, together with the necessary mast 
and boom. For a number of years the companies furnished the 
men with these articles, but so many of them failed to turn them 
in when paid off that they had to abandon the practice. 
LAY OF THE CREW. 
The methods followed in handling the catch and the lay of the 
crew are radically different from those on the Atlantic cod vessels. 
On eastern vessels the men catch and dress the fish and divide their 
share of the proceeds equally. On Pacific vessels the fishermen have 
