1902-3.] Mr Wm. Murray on Salmon in American Rivers. 479 
Sacramento River. 
Table showing the Total Catch, Cannery Pack, and Output of Fry 
upon the Sacramento during a period of Years. 
Year. 
Catch. 
Cannery 
Pack. 
Output of Fry 
by the U.S. F.C. (m) 
1873 . 
lbs. 
lbs. 
500,000 
1874 . 
500,000 
1875 . 
5,098,781 
850,000 
1876 . 
5,331,423 
1.500.000 
2.200.000 
1877 . 
6,493,563 
1878 . 
6,520,768 
2,500,000 
1879 . 
4,432,250 
2,000,000 
1880 . 
10,837,400 
(a) 5,305,000 
2,000,000 
1881 . 
(c) 9,596,984 
2,250,000 
1882 . 
9,596,984 
4,037,000 
1883 . 
• • • 
9,596,984 
ca. 750,000 (/«.) 
1884 . 
(b) 6,732,000 
1885 . 
3,201,000 
1886 . 
2,593,800 
Eggs, handed to 
1887 (e) . 
(e) Z 
Cal. F.C. for 
1888 . 
(/) 6,294,978 
4,039,200 
Sisson Station. 
1889 . 
1,500,000 
(d) 3,300,000 
1890 . 
1,618,471 
174,000 
1,329,000 
1891 . 
672,121 
722,000 
2,837,900 
1892 . 
(g) 3,416,267 
170,425 
25,000 
2,852,000 
1893 . 
1,496,927 
533,100 
3,530,000 
1894 . 
1,940,000 
438,500 
7,500,000 
1895 . 
3,581,244 
1,637,025 
500,000 
3,526,000 
1896 . 
• • • 
650,000 
6,075,000 j 
1897 . 
1,976,086 
17,982,590 
1898 . 
12,397,300 
22,225,000 
1899 . 
(Jc) 6,500,000 
2,150,280 
3,275,110 
(i) 13,935,700 
1900. 
3,533,950 
1,905,000 
1901 . 
889,570 
3,402,036 
(а) Fishery Industries of the U.S.A., Section V., vol. i. p. 753. When 
the pack is given in “cases,” a case is taken at 66 lb. fresh fish. 
(б) U.S. F.C. Bui., vol. vi. p. 400. 
(c) U.S. F.C. Report for 1883, p. 82, gives the above averages for these years. 
The following are the estimated cannery packs for certain years, given by the 
U.S. F.C. Bui., vol. vi. p. 288. Year 1878, 2,409,000 lbs. ; 1879, 2,046,000 
lbs. ; 1880, 3,866,000 lbs. ; 1881, 11,519,200 lbs. ; 1882, 13,219,800 lbs.; 
1883, 10,560,000 lbs. 
(d) The eggs are given as well as the fry. The fry of most of them, if not 
all, were planted in the Sacramento. 
(e) U.S. F.C. Report for 1888, p. 167 : “The years 1884 to 1886 showed' a 
large decrease in the supply, and in 1887 the season was the poorest ever 
known ; there was, however, an increase in 1888, although the catch did 
not yield the proportions it had attained in some former years.” 
(/) The figure 6,019,689 is also given. U.S. F.C. Report, 1888, p. 170. 
(g) U.S. F.C. Report for 1896, p. 638. Bulletin for 1896, p. 229, gives 
catch at 4,848,816 lbs. 
( h ) A million eggs were gathered this year ; the figures in the table is an estimate. 
mi) Including 85,200 eggs retained at Baird Station, 29,000,000 fry alto- 
gether planted this year in Sacramento (U.S. F.C. Report for 1899, p. xxxv). 
(ic) Approximate. 
(m) This column is necessarily imperfect, as the plantations by the 
Californian State Commission are not all included. 
