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BULLETIN OF THE UNITED STATES FISH COMMISSION 
When it is considered that the stream is only about 50 or 60 feet in width at the 
mouth, and the inlet, Mink Arm, is less than one-half of a mile in width, it maj r be fan- 
cied that a fish has very little chance to escape the 30 purse seines that are constantly 
sweeping these waters, which are deep and bold and permit seining into the mouth of 
the stream. If there is no law regulating such fishing, there is one permitting the 
closing of such streams, and unless properly regulated this stream should be closed 
until the rapacity and greed of the fishermen have subsided. In ray former report 
the value of Quadra Stream was given as 50,000 redfish, and it is believed that this 
number can be taken under average conditions with safety to the stream. 
So far as data have been obtained from the different canneries fishing this stream, 
the following is the record, which, however, does not include the catch of independ- 
ent fisheries and salteries: 
Year. 
Species. 
Number. 
Date. 
1895 
97. 000 
137. 000 
65. 000 
98, 138 
5, 664 
100.000 
166, 232 
4,522 
1896. .. 
do 
July 13-Aug. 31 
1897. . . 
do 
189.8 
do 
July 12-Aug. 29 
Aug. 18-Sept. 4 
July 15-Aug. 15 
July 16-Aug. 28 
Aug. 20-Aug. 28 
July 17-Aug. 10 
July 12-Aug. 31 
July 15-Aug. 12 
1899 
30i; 000 
174, 614 
223, 000 
1900 
Quadra Packing Company. — -The cannery of this company was described in my 
former report. From it has sprung the Icy Strait Packing Company, the salteries at 
Taku, Bartlett Bay, and Shipley Bay, the new cannery now building at Bartlett Bay, 
and it is said another cannery is to be built in Sitkoh Bay next spring (1901). 
The machinery employed in the canning process consists of 4 steam boxes, 
2 retorts, 1 capper, 2 crimpers, 1 washer, and 1 cutter. The cans are tilled by hand, 
for which purpose there are tilling tallies for 40 operators. The daily capacity is 
800 cases. The tins are all made at the cannery by T hand of 100-pound plate, 50 per 
cent of which is imported. 
The Chinese contract was 45 cents for hand-filled cans, with the usual conditions. 
The fishermen received transportation, board, $35 per month, and, collectively, 1 
cent each for redfish and cohoes, $2 per thousand for humpbacks, and $4 per thousand 
for dog salmon. 
Fish were purchased at the following rates: Redfish and cohoes, 7 to 10 cents; 
humpbacks, $10 to $12 per thousand; dog salmon, $15 per thousand. The higher 
price was paid when no gear was furnished. Native tillers received 7 cents per case. 
Transportation was by regular line of steamers. 
There are very few steelheads in these waters; only two were brought to the 
cannery this season. Neither shad nor sturgeon have ever been taken; a few halibut 
are found around the cannery during the packing season. 
The following are the statistics for 1900: 
Hands employed: 24 white and 40 native fishermen, 5 white and 25 native 
cannery-hands, 43 Chinese. 
