SALMON-FISHING AS AN INDUSTRY 



Next day comes the hauling up, which is done by cords 

 or levers ; in the case of moored nets the catch is hauled 

 alongside the boats from which the nets were shot, but 

 traps are pulled straight up to the platform from which 

 they have been lowered, and are left hanging while the 

 net is cleared ; the fish as they are taken out are heaped 

 in boxes, sprinkled with salt, and taken ashore for drying. 



Before leaving the Washington fishermen, we must 

 look at some of the work which they share with the 

 Oregon men on the Columbia River. Between Astoria at 

 the mouth of the Columbia and Portland, sixty miles 

 inland, is another valuable salmon ground; here the 

 seine, which has been briefly described in Chapter II, is 

 used in addition to the gill-net. As will presently appear, 

 the seine, even when used for little things like ancho- 

 vies and pilchards, is a weighty apparatus to draw ashore; 

 when it contains salmon it is almost ponderous enough to 

 call for steam-power. 



The leaded net having been shot in a half-circle from a 

 couple of small boats, the tow-lines that are fixed to the 

 two edges are carried to the bank ; as the seine has prob- 

 ably been shot across stream, the rope attached to the 

 edge nearer the bank is naturally shorter. This one is 

 tied down as soon as it is landed, while the longer line is 

 hauled very slowly inwards, in such a manner that the 

 farther edge or wing of the seine is made to describe a 

 curve, and until the two wings are in line with the stream 

 and the tow-ropes of equal length again. During this 

 time many of the fish which have been going towards the 

 sea have come in contact with the net and, in their con- 



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