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FISHING-GEOUNDS OF NOETH AMERICA. 



SALMON PEEPAEED BT NATIVES FOE HOME USE. 



Recapitulation of catch of fish for home consummation and export in 1880. 



^ Boxes of thirty pounds each. 



Ill addition to the above the Western Fur and Trading Company have put up experimentally; 



Smoked halibut, pounds 500 



Codflsli tongues, in kits of twenty-five pounds eacli , 10 



Halibut fins and napes, salted, in kits of twenty-five pounds each 10 



Frostfisb, salted, in quarter barrels 10 



Salmon-trout, salted, in quarter barrels 30 



Codfish, dried, in one hundred pound boxes 30 



Herring, salted, in quarter barrels^. 25 



Herring, salted, in kits of twenty-five pounds each 100 



BELKOFPSKY PARISH. 



Since the fishes of this division are practically the same as those of the Shumagins, it 

 is unnecessary to furnish a separate list of them. Mr. Petroff gives the population as six hundred 

 and sixty-nine. The division, in fact, includes the settlements on the Shumagin grouj), and this 

 group has essentially the same species as Kodiak Parish with the addition of Trichodon stelleri 

 and Bathymaster signatus, the latter being important mainly for bait. Bathymaster is called 

 "cusk" at Pirate Cove, Shumagins. 



Belkoffsky Parish contains the settlements of Belkoffsky, Nikolaievsky, Protassov, Vosnes- 

 sensky, Unga, and Korovinsky. The wealthiest of all is Belkoffsky, which has an abundance 

 of fish, and takes nineteen hundred to two thousand sea-otter annually. Protassov takes five 

 hundred sea-otter and some walrus. Unga takes about six hundred sea-otter. Vosnessensky 

 and Korovinsky also take a few sea-otter. The natives of Korovinsky are occasionally employed 

 at the cod-fishing stations of the Shumagins. At Belkoffsky, a fine salmon river falls into the 

 bay. Natives take the salmon in small seines, and the women and children string them on twigs 



