The Days of a Man 1:1909 



Salmon ing problems, the source of certain justifiable feeling 



unequally 

 distributed 



unequally on t j ie p art o f Canadians, whose red salmon 1 catch is 



limited to the lower reaches of Fraser River in 

 which magnificent stream, nevertheless, ninety-five 

 per cent of the whole run are hatched. The fact that 

 nearly all breed in Canada, to be mostly captured in 

 the United States, prevents any equitable and per- 

 manent solution short of entire reciprocity. 

 in Puget The schools arrive in early summer by way of the 

 Straits of Fuca, too broad and deep for much suc- 

 cessful fishing. They then pass through channels 

 separating the multitude of islands which constitute 

 San Juan County, Washington, a majority along 

 the west side of Lopez Island and through Rosario 

 Straits, the shores for the whole way beset with so- 

 called pound nets, stationary traps attached to per- 

 manent pilings. Farther on they encounter more and 

 more pound nets, so that by the time they reach 

 Point Roberts, the sharply projecting hook at the 

 end of the United States coast, the greater part of 

 the run has been taken. Those which have escaped 

 now come at last under Canadian jurisdiction by 

 entering the Fraser, to reach the headwaters of which, 

 above the many lakes, nearly all the run had started 

 out. 



At Olga, on Orcas Island, we visited the seaside 

 station of the University of Washington. There, by 

 the roaring camp fire, I told my hearers the story of 

 "Agassiz at Penikese." 2 Next, taking passage on 

 the Princess Royal, a Canadian packet, we cruised 

 northward, examining salmon and steelhead fisheries, 

 especially in the Skeena at Port Essington and in the 



1 See Vol. I, Chapter ix, page 227, and Vol. II, Chapter xxx, pages 135-136. 



2 See Vol. I, Chapter v, pages 106-119. 



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