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Table 19. — 
Average proportion in each 7-day period of the total annual deliveries of the Puget Sound 
and cape seine fleets 
Week ending — 
Puget Sound fleet, 1916 to 1934 • 
Cape fleet, 1927 to 1934 
Odd years 
Even years 
Even years 
weighted J 
Odd years 
Even years 
Even years 
weighted * 
0.032 
.021 
0. 051 
0. 041 
June 23 . 
.615 
2. 933 
2.361 
June 30 
0. 020 
0.005 
0. 003 
3. 705 
10. 765 
8. 665 
July 7.... — 
.324 
.143 
.091 
5. 934 
9. 858 
7. 935 
July 14 - 
.906 
.728 
.463 
7. 570 
10. 432 
8. 397 
July 21 
2. 462 
2.882 
1.833 
13. 474 
15. 043 
12. 108 
July 28. 
3.836 
6. 586 
3. 553 
9.193 
11.546 
9. 293 
Aug. 4 
4. 841 
5.945 
3. 781 
16. 971 
10. 795 
8.689 
Aug. 11.. 
5. 470 
5.583 
3. 551 
18. 926 
4.942 
3. 978 
Aug. 18 
6. 768 
4. 873 
3. 099 
11. 812 
9.011 
7. 253 
Aug. 25 
10. 303 
4. 153 
2.641 
4. 870 
3. 084 
2. 482 
Sept. 1. 
10. 461 
2. 402 
1. 528 
4.616 
2. 189 
1.762 
Sept. 8. 
7. 425 
1.504 
.957 
.473 
4.328 
3. 484 
2. 431 
1. 546 
.235 
3. 552 
2.859 
Sept. 22 
4.324 
3. 926 
2.497 
.667 
.664 
.534 
Sept. 29 
4.771 
5.956 
3. 788 
.541 
.247 
. 199 
Oct. 6.. - 
5. 753 
7. 70S 
4. 902 
.028 
. 180 
.145 
Oct. 13. 
6.767 
8.846 
5. 626 
. 266 
.038 
.071 
Oct. 20... 
7. 367 
10. 401 
6.615 
.050 
.138 
. Ill 
Oct. 27 
7. 432 
11.095 
7. 056 
.064 
. 052 
Nov. 3 _ 
7. 077 
10. 458 
6. 651 
.076 
.061 
3. 178 
4. 449 
2. 829 
.013 
.010 
.416 
.875 
.099 
.050 
.032 
Total 
100. 000 
99. 999 
63. 598 
99. 999 
99. 999 
80. 490 
i 1920 and 1930 omitted. 
‘ Percentages in even years weighted by ratio of average number of deliveries in even years to average number of deliveries in odd 
years. 
The week ending September 15 has been omitted from the odd years, since in ail 
years except 2, 1917 and 1919, a closed period has been enforced. The catches 
made during this week in these 2 years were not included when the percentages for 
these years were calculated. The last 3 days of the preceding week were also included 
in the closed period. The catches for this week have been estimated on the basis of 
the daily average for the 4 days of the week during which fishing was permitted, and 
the percentages calculated from the estimated figures. Because a similar closed period 
has been enforced in the last 2 even years, the percentages for the closed weeks during 
these years were estimated on the average of the same weeks of the remaining 6 even 
years in which this closure was not operative. 
Because the fleets in odd years have been larger than those in even years it was 
necessary, in order to show the proportionate intensity of the fishery, to reduce the 
even-year percentages in the same proportion that the average number of even-year 
deliveries bore to the average number of odd-year deliveries. From these weighted 
figures, appearing in the third column of table 19 and shown in the lower section of 
figure 18, it is immediately apparent that the increased intensity in odd years is con- 
fined largely to the summer fishery, and that the relative size of the summer and fall 
fisheries is reversed in odd and even years. 
In both odd and even years deliveries start shortly before July 1. In even years 
they increase rapidly to a peak during the last part of July and the early part of 
August, begin to decline about the middle of August, and by the first week in September 
have almost ceased. Shortly after this the fall fishery begins, with a gradual increase 
