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the chief deputy : In July, 1891, two shad were taken ; during July and August, 1892, 
seven were caught, ranging from 7 to 10 inches in length, and in August, 1894, but 
one was secured, which was 16 inches long. 
The absence of special inquiries in the coast rivers of Oregon, south of the 
Columbia, makes it impossible to speak positively of the distribution and abundance 
of shad. They probably enter all the streams of suitable size, but as there is uo 
fishing generally until the late fall run of salmon begins, only a few straggling shad 
are found, the main run having probably entered the river earlier in the season and 
gone out to sea by the opening of the salmon season. 
In Rogue River, the southernmost stream in Oregon, a lot of shad was taken in 
1883 by Mr. Charles T. Finely, of Ellensburg. Shad had also been obtained in that 
river in 1882, which had traveled up the coast from the Sacramento; they are now 
found in the river each year. In 1889 a shad was reported to have been caught in the 
Coquille River. 
According to Mr. Alexander, very few shad are taken in any of the tributaries of 
the Columbia, but it is very probable that if proper apparatus were used they would 
be found in many places where they are not now known to exist. He says that no 
adult or small shad have as yet been caught in the Willamette River. Each season 
considerable salmon gill-net fishing is done in the river, and if there were any large 
shad there it is probable that one would occasionally be taken. 
Mr. Malarkey, one of the largest fish-dealers in Portland, thinks the reason why 
shad do not go up the Willamette is that in the spring months, when they are first 
seen, the current of the Columbia is so swift that it forms a “back water” for several 
miles up the Willamette, which may have considerable influence on the movements 
of shad. 
In the Columbia River the shad is regularly found as far as the Cascades, about 
150 miles above the mouth of the river. A few appear to have gone even higher up 
the river, but there is no evidence that the shad occurs far above The Dalles. Mr. 
Charles F. Lauer, a fish-dealer at The Dalles, states that in 1893, when a Mr. Davis 
had a salmon wheel in position near that place, on several occasions from one to two 
dozen shad were caught in a day, in rather still water; and that in 1894 Mr. Davis 
also obtained a few shad about 2 miles above The Dalles on the Washington side 
of the river, in swift water. In 1893 one of the salmon wheels of Messrs Seufert 
Bros., at The Dalles, is reported to have taken two 6-pouud shad. No one makes a 
business of taking shad at that point, and probably many of the fishermen do not 
know a shad when they catch it. Mr. I. H. Taffe, the proprietor of a salmon cannery 
and wheel fishery at Celilo, at the mouth of the Deschutes River, has never caught a 
shad at that place, and thinks these fish do not ascend the river so far. Inquiries 
and investigations of the Fish Commission in the upper Columbia River and in the 
Snake River elicited no information going to show the presence of shad. The fish is 
found in greatest abundance near the mouth of the river; it is caught, however, in 
considerable numbers wherever pound-net and drag-seine fishing is carried on. 
Mr. Alexander reports that in 1893 fifteen shad were taken in traps at Point 
Roberts, Washington, near the mouth of the Fraser River; their average length was 
15 inches and they weighed about 2^ pounds each. Mr. Charles H. Townsend, 
naturalist on the United States Fish Commission steamer Albatross, states that on 
September 23, 1895, Mr. Drysdale, superintendent of the salmon canneries at Point 
