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RIVERS INLET. 
Total distribution :—Sockeye, $,594,000. 
BABINE LAKE. 
Total distribution :—Sockeye, 4,662,950; coho, 500,000. 
STUART LAKE. 
Total distribution :—Sockeye, 2,442,000. 
NIMPIKISH. 
Total distribution :—Sockeye, 4,800,000. 
SETON LAKE. 
Eggs collected :—Sockeye, 825,000; spring, 636,000; coho, 2,686,000. The 
capacity of this hatchery is forty million eggs. 
During the season the hatcheries provided over eighty million 
salmon fry, viz.:—Sockeye, 61,367,000; Spring, 11,931,000; Coho, 
6,936,000. Each female salmon in this immense number of fish 
deposits about 3,500 eggs, so that if all were hatched and came to 
maturity the rivers would be jammed with fish during the annual 
runs, but it 1s estimated that only four per cent. of the eggs are 
hatched, and of these many are destroyed by accident or by the 
numerous enemies, finny and feathered, which prey upon the tender 
fry. 
The Canadian Government is taking steps to perpetuate the 
salmon in the northern rivers—the Skeena, Naas and other large 
streams, with their tributaries—as well as in the Fraser—and as the 
salmon native to those waters are caught in Canadian territory 
there will be no difficulty in the way of preserving them. The 
excessive fishing in Alaskan waters, United States territory, where 
there are practically no restrictions, is steadily decreasing the 
supply. As an instance, in one small Alaska river that used to be 
good for a catch of 750,000 salmon yearly, three fishing crews, 
working all season at the mouth of the stream, caught only seventy- 
five fish. 
COST OF BOATS, &c. 
Fishing boats, 28 feet long, fitted with sails, &c., cost from $75 
to $100, to which must be added the cost of nets, lines, hooks, 
anchor, buoys, &c., which would amount to from $50 to $75, accord- 
ing to quantity of gear carried. These boats are the kind used in 
salmon and general coast fishing. 
FISHERIES PROTECTION. 
The Dominion Government maintains a Fisheries Protection 
Service, consisting, in 1908, of thirteen cruisers, carrying an 
ageregate of 250 men. Of these vessels the following are employed 
in the protection of the fisheries on the Pacific Coast :—Kestrel, 
Falcon, Georgia, Alcedo and Restless. 
