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be about $367.81, which will leave him perhaps $340, or an average of nearly $30 per month the 
year round, clear of necessary expenses. ‘ 
At Saint Paul, Kodiak, the average daily catch per man i$ 200 fish, which are worth, dressed, 
$4. Very little cod is shipped to San Francisco from that point, the major portion being dried by 
the natives for their own use. 
PRODUCTS OF THE FISHERY.—The greater portion of the Pacific cod are salted in the hold 
of the vessel and brought to San Francisco to be kept in pickle until they are wanted for the 
market, when they are ‘‘flaked” for a short time. The Pirate Cove fish are kenched in a building. 
put up for the purpose, except the small ones, which are pickled. Keuch-cured and pickle-cured 
cod are therefore the principal products of the fishery. Cod sounds at the Shumagins are said to be 
thin and tough and they are not put up. The heads are thrown away also. The Western Fur and 
Trading Company of San Francisco had put up for them, experimentally, by Capt. H. R. Bowen, 
at Saint Paul, 250 pounds of tongues in kits of 25 pounds each, 3,000 pounds of dried codfish in 100- 
pound boxes, and 10,500 pounds of boneless cod in 30-pound boxes. 
Three sorts of codfish are usual in the market: Bundled, the common kind; boxed, the largest 
selected, in 100-pound boxes; boneless, the skin and vertebra removed, in 12- and 30-pound boxes. 
One of the San Francisco firms brand their best fish “Extra George’s Codfish,” anchor trade- 
mark. 
In 1866 10,000 gallons of cod-liver oil were reported. In 1879 Lynde & Hough brought to the 
San Francisco market 3,000 gallons said to have been of superior quality. 
The following table shows the quantity and value of cod taken in the Pacific Ocean fishery 
during the years 1865 to 1880: 
Average . 
Year. Bambee price per in posta, | Value. 
| Cents. 
469, 400 13 1,314, 880 | $170, 934 40 
724, 000 13 2,020,480 | 262, 662 40 
943, 400 123 2, 649,920 | 331, 240 00 
608, 000 12 1, 684,480 | 202,137 60 
1, 032, 000 9 3,046,400 | 274,176 00 
1, 265, 500 64 8, 543,680 | 230, 339 20 
772, 000 7 2,213,120) 154,918 40 
. 300, 000 7 913, 920 63, 974 40 
550, 000 6 1, 632, 960 97,977 60 
381, 000 6 1, 077, 440 64, 646 40 
504, 000 7 1,429,120 | 100, 038 40 
758, 000 6 2,253,440} 135,206 40 
750, 000 5 2,627,520 | 181,376 00 
1,190, 000 5 38,097,920 | 164,896 00 
1, 499, 000 44| 4,721,920 | 196,870 00 
1, 206, 000 5 8,618,000 | 180,900 00 
wodetewssaceea|scencoeecic 87, 845, 200 | 2,752,293 20 
To this yield must be added the value.of the cod-liver oil, of which 13,000 gallons are recorded, 
and of the tongues and dried and boneless fish prepared for the Western Fur and Trading Com- 
pany at Kodiak. The figures given above relative to the number of fish taken each year are from 
the San Francisco Commervial Herald and Market Review. They agree in the main with numbers 
gleaned from other sources, but I have never seen any two statements that are exactly alike. The 
yield is put down at probably less than it really was, certainly not greater. The comparative 
results from the Okhotsk and the Shumagins for the years 1878, 1879, and 1880 appear in the fol- 
lowing table: 
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