PACIFIC FISHERMAN 



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NATIONAL INDEPENDENT FISHERIES COM 



in sheltered water. Nearby are the headquar- 

 ters of the crab and rock cod fishermen's unions 

 with their cooperative markets. Adjacent are 

 private shops which supply the fish boats and 

 repair them. Several hundred fishing boats of 

 the same type utilize this arrangement. 



In Seattle the Port Commission in 1913 ac- 



PAN-i'S HALIBUT STEAMER INDEPENDENT. 



quired a large tract of land on Salmon Bay, a 

 point which had always been a natural gather- 

 ing place for one type of Puget Sound fishing 

 vessel, viz., the purse seiner. On this site was 

 erected a special fisherman's wharf from which 

 two floats, each 1,000 feet long, ranged out 

 into the bay. On the shore end the commission 



POWER HALIBUT SCHOONER REPUBLIC 

 This is One of the 125 Motor Vessels Operating- Out of a Single Port — Seattle 



