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Table 47. — Catch of pink salmon, 1925-34 
Year 
Fraser 
River 
catch 1 
Puget 
Sound traps 
Purse seines 
Miscella- 
neous Puget 
Sound gear 
Total 
Puget 
Sound 
High seas 
1925 
1, 355, 592 
19, 236 
1, 378, 762 
938 
1, 957, 760 
13, 118 
186, 298 
1, 950, 468 
21,669 
3, 062, 604 
5, 882 
2, 945, 720 
7, 057 
3, 688, 006 
3, 678 
1, 729, 775 
2. 964 
4, 602, 188 
1, 764 
3, 341,419 
3,445 
4, 365, 513 
9, 520 
4, 346, 600 
5,130 
4, 298, 591 
10, 044 
729, 702 
1,529 
2, 136, 570 
68, 877 
3, 373, 529 
42, 058 
3, 903, 188 
5, 981 
844, 895 
20, 096 
108, 386 
1,052 
125, 142 
114 
152, 962 
738 
52, no 
21 
58, 384 
117 
8, 746, 336 
45, 250 
10, 044, 497 
79, 256 
12, 795, 484 
72, 491 
12, 176, 202 
14, 810 
8,230, 411 
38, 009 
1926 
1927 
1928 
1929__ 
1930 
1931 
1932 
1933. 
1, 298, 766 
4, 788 
1934 . 
6, 215, 258 
13, 417, 823 
20, 984, 214 
11, 126, 625 
499, 026 
52, 242, 746 
1 Converted from cases at 14 per case, does not include pinks caught elsewhere in the Gulf of Georgia and canned on the Fraser 
River. 
The purse seines are the most important factor, accounting for 32 million fish, or 
about 60 percent of the total catch, during the past 10 years. Purse seines do better, 
compared to the traps, in taking pinks than they do in the capture of sockeyes. The 
pink salmon swim in dense schools, frequently jumping or “finning,” so that the schools 
are much easier to locate. Also, a much larger proportion of the pinks may use Haro 
Strait than is the case with the sockeyes, as the pinks that are bound northward 
spawn not only in the Fraser River, but in a number of smaller rivers and streams 
entering the Gulf of Georgia from both the mainland and Vancouver Island shores, and, 
since only a few traps are favorably located to capture fish using Haro Strait they would 
catch relatively less. 
Accurate data on the locality of capture is available for the trap-caught pinks. 
Traps north of Deception Pass have taken over 45 million, whereas the southern 
traps have caught but 9 million, or a proportion of 5 to 1. During the past 10 years 
the proportion has been 2 to 1 ; 9 million northward and 4 % million to the south. 
The records of one large company over a 7-year period show that the bulk of the 
seine-caught pinks are from the Salmon Bank area, with large numbers from around 
Stuart Island and Mitchell Bay in Haro Strait, and also from Lummi Island, Birch 
Bay, Boundary Bay and Point Roberts areas, only minor quantities being captured 
south of Deception Pass. It would thus appear that a large proportion of the pink 
sal m on captured in Puget Sound waters, probably well over half, are bound toward 
Canadian spawning grounds. 
