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his discovery to account. In that year he outfitted a schooner for 
the business and made a successful trip, securing a full cargo off 
the Siberian coast. His success encouraged others to try cod 
fishing, and the result was the discovery of abundance of the fish 
in deep water all along the North Pacific coast, from California to 
Behring Strait. The industry has been carried on on a considerable 
scale in California during all the intervening years, but it was 
only in 1903 that it was regularly established in Washington and 
British Columbia. 
The methods in vogue for catching cod are practically the 
same as those used on the Atlantic. In the deep-sea fishing, hand 
lines are the rule, the fish being caught from dories. Several 
small dories are carried by each steamer or schooner, and a single 
fisherman goes in each boat. Standing in the centre of the dory 
(which is about 13 feet long on the bottom, and a little over 16 
feet on top), he throws out a line on each side, and the fish taken 
are put into the ends of the craft until she is loaded, when they 
are taken to the vessel and hoisted to the deck to be dressed. 
The splitters and salters then dress, clean, and salt the fish, which 
is deposited in the hold, the quantity being added to daily 
until a full cargo has been secured. The time for loading 
a dory varies, according to the abundance or scarcity of fish, 
from a few hours to a whole day, but when the fish are 
plentiful the average catch per dory will easily reach 500. 
Trawls have been tried in Behring Sea, but have not proved 
successful, because of the myriads of sea fleas (amphipod crust- 
aceans) on the bottom. These active scavengers not only swarmed 
upon the bait, but they also injured or devoured the cod before the 
trawls could be hauled. 
The estimated cost of outfitting a vessel for the Behring Sea 
cod fishery, on a catch of 157 tons, or 70,000 fish, average weight 
4% pounds, length of voyage, three months, calculated by a well- 
known Vancouver company, is as follows :— 
Captain, three months @ $ 375 
Cook ” ” 210 
Salter 210 
(assistant). “three months @ 150 
Splitter, three months @ 210 
Two men @ $40 240 
Mate’s share 7,000 fish @ 3c. per 210 
Nine fishermen’s shares 63,000 fish @ Sse Sea emedcn aot Os 450 
Provisions, 17 men @ $10 per month per man ............... 510 
Charter of vessel @ $200 Per MONEN | igs. waiguncivenid wad aciae 600 
Fifty tons of salt @ $12 per ton 600 
Towage, port charges, fuel, KC. pone een 4 sees 150 
Five dories, complete, @ $50— $250 per trip (good for five trips) 50 
Lines, hooks, anchors, buoys, &c., for same, $20.85 boat per trip 20 
Hand lines, spare lines, hooks, cable, &e., &¢., per trip........ 123 
