COASTS OF WASHINGTON AND OREGON, ae 
TABLE 3.—LOCATIONS AND RESULTS OF HatisuT FISHING TRIALS OFF THE COASTS OF 
WASHINGTON AND OREGON BY THE STEAMER ‘“‘ALBATROSS,’’ 1915—Continued. 
Fish taken (eatch). 
Number Halibut (Hippoglossus). 
Set | of skates | Duration Bait 
No. | of gear of set. : | i 
used. First Average 
Number | Range Total | Average Riri weight 
taken. of size. | weight. | weight. etween! of first 
11 and 80 aleea 
Ibs.). 2 
Hours. Inches. | Pounds. | Pownds. Pounds. 
I 2 1 | Live herring, 5 22-50 196 39. 2 5 39.2 
frozen. 
II 2 1 eres dosseae ae: 8 10-46 225 28.1 7 30.7 
III 2 i eet GOs eet 2 22-24 46 23.0 2 23.0 
IV 2 Thal eee Gossestec3 3 30-94 179 59.7 3 59.7 
Fish taken (catch)—Continued. 
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I 7 (i ae 1 29 44 1 eek | OP od (ee a eto Double-banked set; 4 females, 1 
male halibut; 1 blue shark 83 
in. long, 64 lbs.; 1 cultus cod, 
42 in. long. 
II 20 19 1 1 1 71 1 11h eines 2 | Double-banked set; 6 females, 2 
males; 1 black cod, 36 lbs.; 1 
small stone with worm casts, 
sponges, etc., attached. 
Til 2 H@\ oneal BSS = Beeee VANE So Seay 1 3 | Double-banked set; 1 female, 1 
male; a large sea anemone; 3 
rocks, size of duck’s egg, cov- 
ered with orgnaic remains. 
IV 10 Baltes aoa 53 ol ona he SORE ass cep sesasslt le fee All females; many black cod ex- 
ceptionally large (40-50 Ibs.); 
many indications of a good hali- 
but bank; birds dipping over 
water, many sharks, whales, 
ete., 1 line bit off at both ends 
by sharks and lost. 
YIELD OF THE BANKS. 
On July 25, while at anchor off Grays Harbor buoy, handlines were 
used for about an hour and a half and 150 hake (Merluccius produc- 
tus), 2 dogfish, 1 rockfish (Sebastodes pinniger), and 3 “sole” (Eop- 
setta jordani) were caught. The hake proved unpalatable, the flesh 
being watery and tasteless. 
Food of the halibut.—Just over the edge of the continental shelf, 
where the water rapidly deepens, will be found many strips of gravel, 
rocky or broken bottom. It is on these patches that halibut are 
found. Many of the fishermen think that there is a seepage of fresh 
water which carries away the mud and fine sand and which attracts 
