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white men and Aleuts, and their immense seines they first 

 sweep the waters near the canneries, and then, when these 

 have been cleared out, go further and further away, until 

 at present many canneries, having exhausted the nearby 

 waters, are obliged to send their tugs 60 or 70 or even 100 

 miles to find fish for the pack. The fish are caught with 

 seines, some of which are 300 fathoms long, some 450 

 fathoms, and I was told of one 750 fathoms long and 18 to 

 20 feet deep. These seines are run out near the mouths 



ALEUTS DRYING SALMON AT UNALASKA. 



of the rivers where the fish are schooling preparatory to 

 their ascent, and of course everything within the compass 

 of the net is caught. Not only are salmon taken by the 

 steamer load, but in addition millions of other good fish 

 are captured, killed, and thrown away. At times also it 

 happens that far greater numbers of salmon are caught 

 than can be used before they spoil. A friend told me of 

 the throwing away of 60,000 salmon at one time near a 

 cannery in Prince William Sound in the summer of 1900, 



