8 REPORT OF COMMISSIONER OF FISH AND FISHERIES. 
Annual output of the salmon canning industry of the Pacific coast of North America 
from 1876 to 1889. 
• Year. 
Cases. 
Approxi- 
mate gross 
weight of 
fresh salmon 
utilized. 
1876 
Number. 
475, 600 
504, 800 
638, 000 
539, 600 
679, 500 
911, 100 
994, 800 
l, 106, 600 
985, 295 
835, 715 
933, 354 
997, 890 
1, 189, 372 
1, 701, 460 
Founds. 
33, 292, 000 
35, 336, 000 
44, 660, 000 
37, 772, 000 
47, 565, 000 
63, 777, 000 
69, 636, 000 
77, 462, 000 
68, 970, 650 
60, 400, 050 
65, 334, 780 
69, 852, 300 
83, 256, 040 
119, 102, 200 
1 877 
1878 
1 879 
1880 
1881 
1882 
1883 . 
1884 
1885 
1886 
1887 
1888 
1889 
Total - ... 
12, 493, 086 
876,416, 020 
Although of only about 7 years’ existence, the salmon-canning indus- 
try of Alaska has become more important than that of any other region. 
The increase in growth during the past few years has been phenomenal, 
especially in 1889, when the pack of 675,000 cases represented an in- 
crease of 377,000 cases over the previous year. How long the supply 
of salmon can keep up under this enormous drain can not be predicted, 
but it would seem that in any event Alaska is to be the great salmon 
region of the future. The yearly increase is shown in the table: 
The Alaska salmon pack from 1883 to 1889. 
Year. 
Number of 
cases. 
Year. 
Number of 
cases. 
1883 
36, 000 
45, 000 
74, 850 
120, 700 
1887 
190, 200 
298, 000 
675, 000 
1884 
1888 
1885 
1889 
1886 
The importance of British Columbia as a salmon-producing and sal- 
mon-canning country may be seen in the following summary, covering 
14 years. As in Alaska, there was a large increase in the output in 
1889, independently of an increase in the number of canneries. 
Number of salmon canneries in operation in British Columbia from 1876 to 1889, 
and the annual output of canned salmon. 
Year. 
No. of 
can- 
neries. 
No. of cases 
canned. 
Year. 
No. of 
can- 
neries. 
No. of cases 
canned. 
1876 
3 
6 
10 
9 
9 
12 
18 
9, 847 
67, 387 
113, 601 
61,093 
61, 849 
177, 276 
255, 061 
1883. 
24 
% 
17 
20 
21 
, 24 
196, 292 
141, 242 
108, 517 
161, 264 
204, 083 
186, 668 
414, 400 
1877 
1884 
1878 
1885 
1879 
1886 
1880 
1887 
1881 
1888 
1882 
1889 
