98 REPORT OF COMMISSIONER OF FISH AND FISHERIES. 
and in 1876 the firm removed to Pescada Landing, opposite Sausalito, 
on Richardson’s Bay, about 5 miles northwest from San Francisco. 
Here the firm (now the McOollam Fishing and Trading Company) has 
continued the curing of cod, though it has its office and salesrooms at 
San Francisco. 
The same year that the curing station was established at Pescada 
Landing it was determined to introduce a new feature in the cod fishery 
by establishing a station at one of the Shumagin Islands, where fisher- 
men could live in summer, and from which they could pursue cod fishing 
in boats, salting their catch in storehouses on shore where the fish could 
remain in kench until it was suitable to send them to market. Pirate 
Cove, Popolf Island, was selected. The place had already been occu- 
pied by a party of hunters, who had resorted here for several years, 
and had erected a wharf and two buildings. Cod were abundant near 
the shore, and the fact that the station is still occupied proves the wis- 
dom of its selection. Three schooners were sent to the station the first 
year, and their crews worked in conjunction with the men on shore. 
In 1883 the three masted schooners Hera and Tina were sent to the 
Okhotsk Sea, and the brig Tropic Bird sailed for Bering Sea. The lat- 
ter was a new ground for cod, no vessels having previously gone there 
in search of this species. The vessels were all successful ; their catch, 
together with that obtained by the men at Pirate Cove, amounted to 
630,000 fish, or nearly 1,000 tons. In this year (1883) several new mem- 
bers were admitted into the firm and its name was changed to the 
McOollam Fishing and Trading Company. The fishing fleet was in. 
creased 1 by the purchase of the bark Helen W. Almy and brig Tropic 
Bird and by building the schooner Ounimalc. The business at Pirate 
Cove, which previously had been confined to supplying employes of 
the firm, was largely increased. A new building was erected at the 
Cove, and it was stocked with a large amount of goods suitable to the 
trade, that were forwarded by the schooner Czar. This vessel made 
three trips during the summer, taking salt, fishing gear, and assorted 
merchandise to Alaska and bringing home codfish and furs. 
Additional new Buildings and a new wharf were constructed at 
Pirate Cove in 1884, and the stock of goods was enlarged and improved 
in variety. This resulted in making the Cove the headquarters for 
supplies for residents within a radius of 100 miles, and it also induced 
many of the fishermen to make their homes there, and now, instead of 
returning to San Francisco at the close of the fishing season, when 
their term of engagement expires in the fall, they remain to fish or to 
hunt for fur-bearing animals during the winter. 
The system of fishing from shore stations having been found most 
profitable, the firm gradually withdrew its vessels. The Hera was 
withdrawn in 1885, the Tropic Bird in 1886, aud the Helen W. Almy in 
1887. In the latter year a branch fishing station was established at 
Pauloff Harbor, Sannak Island. In 1888 the schooners Czar aud Eliza 
