STATISTICS OF SALMON FISHERIES. 753 
The total sum paid by the carners to fishermen in 1880 for salmon is about $809,380, or 50 
cents each. 
The total value of the pack, estimated at $5 per case, would be $2,697,930. 
3.—STATISTICAL RECAPITULATION. 
STATISTICS OF PACIFIC SALMON FISHERY AND CANNING INDUSTRY FOR 1880. 
Number of persons employed... 2... 0.2.2. cence cee c ee cece cece ne cece cnen cnee ceee ceee ence ence 8,310 
Capital invested sis ciwew sds Scie ccccedercidec ccc coed So eiececSdedcedcrdacceuce Sees suc seb weenie $1, 381, 900 
Value-of proditetis esesnelcsis woucoca ccna ecs 0s scan wees aa ei he ba see Geieccn sale aces wnieaise oe cers 3, 399, 574 
The total catch was 2,887,900 salmon, weighing 53,844,000 pounds. Of this amount 1,585,500 
pounds were salted, 200,000 pounds smoked, 2,000,000 pounds sold fresh at San Francisco, 
43,379,542 pounds canned, and the rest consumed locally or unaccounted for. 
The extent of the canning industry was as follows: 
Canneries. Sold to the canneries. Product of the canneries. 
Number 
% te a Pounds of Pound: 
- i ands. ‘ounds 0: ‘ounds in 1- 
Number.| Capital. freshsalmon.| V2lue. Cases. pound cans. Value. 
Sacramento River...........+sssee+--e0-- 10| $100, 000 800 5, 805, 000 $79, 600 80, 387 3, 858, 576 $400, 935 
Smith and Eel Rivers, California, Rogue 
River, Oregon, and vicinity............ 3 25, 000 95 1, 591, 800 15, 918 22, 800 1, 070, 400 111, 500 
Columbia River........-.2-.20e0eeeeeee 29 | 1,100,000 4,000 | 35, 612, 742 809, 380 539,587 | 25,900,176 | 2, 697, 930 
Puget Soutid o..cscscccnsesvenercnasesiens, 1 4, 000 15 * 198, 000 1, 560 38, 000 144, 000 15, 000 
Alaaka 1.200. cccce cece ce ccecee cece eeece: 2 10, 000 30 672, 000 3, 360 10, 000 480, 000 30, 000 
45 | 1,239, 000 4, 940 43, 379, 542 909, 818 655, 274 31, 453, 152 3, 255, 365 
SALMON CANNING AT PORT BLAKELY. 
The salmon cannery of Jackson & Myers, formerly at Muchilteo, has now been removed to 
Port Blakely, on the west side of Admiralty Inlet opposite Seattle. Here salmon are abundant in 
summer and fall in the salt water and are taken with seines. During the past year (1880) the run 
has been very good, and 3,000 cases have been packed. The species chiefly taken is the silver 
salmon or “coho” (0. kisutch), with an occasional quinnat salmon. On alternate years (1877, 1879) 
there is a considerable run of the humpback salmon or “haddo” (0. gorbuscha), the female of which 
species is canned, the male thrown away or given to the Indians to be salted. These small salmon 
usually sell at the canneries at 3 to 5 cents each, twelve to fifteen of them filling a case. 
The details of the Alaska salmon fishery, are fully discussed by Dr. Bean in another sec- 
tion of this report in connection with the fishing-grounds and fishery resources of Alaska. (See 
Section II, FIsHINe GROUNDS, pp. 81-115.) 
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