BULLETIN OF THE UNITED STATES FISH COMMISSION. 25 
Yield and value of the fisheries of British Columbia during 1886. 
Kind. 
Quantity. 
Value. 
Salmon, salted barrels 
Salmon, kippered do.. 
Salmon, fresh pounds 
Salmon, smoked do . . 
Salmon, canned, cases of 4 dozen 1-pound tin cans, each cases 
Sturgeon, fresh pounds 
Halibut, fresh do. . 
Haddock, fresh do.. 
Herring, fresh do.. 
Herring, smoked do.. 
Smelts, fresh do . . 
Trout, fresh do . 
Eulachons, fresh do . . 
Eulachons, smoked do.. 
Eulachons, salted barrels 
Assorted fish pounds 
Eulachon oil gallons 
Dogfish oil, refined do . . 
Dogfish, seal, and porpoise oil do . . 
Herring oil do. . 
Sardines 
Crabs and prawns - 
Oysters, native barrels 
Clams and other shell-fish 
Eur-seal skins number 
Hair-seal skins do.. 
Sea-otter skins do.. 
Eish sold in markets, not including Hew Westminster 
Estimated consumption by Chinese laborers on Canadian Pacific and Island 
Railway and other place's 
Total 
Estimated consumption by Indian population, as previously computed and 
revised: 
Salmon $2, 732, 500 
Halibut. 190,000 
Sturgeon and other fish 260, 000 
Eish oils 75,000 
3, 006 
50 
825, 600 
22, 700 
161, 270 
114, 900 
81, 000 
55, 000 
38, 000 
4, 500 
19, 000 
30, 750 
44, 000 
1,900 
80 
173, 800 
200 
20 , 000 
25, 000 
740 
300 
38, 907 
3, 000 
25 
$25, 551 
600 
57, 792 
3, 405 
838, 604 
5,745 
8, 100 
2, 750 
1, 140 
900 
760 
3, 075 
2, 640 
380 
800 
8, 690 
200 
10, 000 
10, 000 
296 
500 
2, 500 
2, 100 
3,000 
389, 070 
2, 250 
1,500 
125, 000 
70, 000 
1, 577, 348 
3; 257, 500 
Grand total of approximate yield. 
4, 834, 848 
Comparative value of yield in 1885 and 1886, exclusive of Indian consumption : 
Total in 1886 $1, 577, 348 
Total in 1885 1, 078, 038 
Increase in 1886 499, 310 
From the Fraser River hatchery, iu British Columbia, last season 
there were deposited 2,625,000 fry; and by March 15, 1887, the hatchery 
will be- able to distribute 4,500,000 fry, all of the quinnat and suckeye 
species (Oncorhynchus chouicha and O. nerha). 
New Westminster, B. C., February 25, 1887. 
IO.-AN ACT FOB SECURING STATISTICS OF THE EXTENT ANDVALUE 
OF THUS VESSEL FISHERIES OF THE UNITER STATES.* 
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United 
States of America in Congress assembled , That whenever the papers of 
any vessel of the United States of over five tons burden, engaged in the 
capture or transportation of any kind of cetacea, fish, shell-fish, crus- 
* This passed the Senate on February 8, 1887. In the House of Representatives on 
February 10, it was read twice and referred to the Select Comm ittee on American 
Ship-building and Ship-owning Interests. Congress finally adjourned without pass- 
ing the bill. 
