FISHERIES OF THE PACIFIC COAST. 
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Summary of the product* of the fisheries of Washington. 
Species. 
Quantity. 
Value. 
Species. 
Quantity. 
Value. 
Fish. 
Cod, fresh pounds . . 
Halibut, fresh do 
Halibut, salted do 
Salmon, fresh do 
Salmon, salted do 
Other kinds, fresh .do 
Total 
239, 400 
920, 000 
300, 000 
10, 185, 830 
133, 900 
1, 135, 200 
$10, 820 
21, 800 
10, 100 
681,808 
4, 805 
33, 775 
Other products. 
Fur-seal pelts number. . 
Sea-otter jjelts do 
Crabs do 
Clams pounds.. 
Oysters do 
Shrimps do 
Dnorilnh oil gflllrvnsi 
5,351 
30 
7, 500 
300,000 
4, 066, 200 
5, 000 
10, 000 
$29, 458 
3, 450 
570 
3,200 
86, 574 
500 
4, 000 
18, 914, 330 
763, 108 
Total 
127, 752 
Grand total 
890, 860 
Statistics of the salmon-canning industry of Washington in 1888. 
Ho. of 
Ho. of 
Salmon used for 
canning. 
Canned salmon 
placed on market. 
Location of canneries. 
canner- 
ies. 
factory 
hands. 
Pounds. 
Price paid 
to fisher- 
men. 
Cases. 
Value. 
1 
flolninbia, Ttiver 
10 
534 
9, 419, 670 
1, 575, 000 
2, 775, 000 
1, 538, 250 
$490, 607 
47, 250 
83, 250 
26, 665 
144, 918 
22, 500 
37, 000 
21,975 
$869, 508 
129, 375 
212, 750 
126, 356 
Shoalwater Bay . 
3 
125 
Gray’s Harbor and Chehalis Biver 
4 
176 
Puget Sound 
4 
141 
Total 
21 
976 
15, 307, 920 
647, 772 
226, 393 
1, 337, 989 
45. FISHERIES OF THE COLUMBIA RIYER. 
These fisheries have been so fully discussed elsewhere that it is not 
necessary to further allude to them. In order that the relative impor- 
tance of the fisheries of the two States may be better understood, how- 
ever, it is deemed advisable to show in the following tables the extent 
of the fisheries of Washington on the Columbia. 
Persons employed. 
How engaged. 
Ho. 
Vessel fisheries 
13 
1,390 
534 
1, 937 
Shore fisheries 
Canneries 
Total 
