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BULLETIN OF THE UNITED STATES FISH COMMISSION. 
The proportion of each species of salmon in the salmon pack of the Columbia 
River from 1889 to 1892 is shown in Table G: 
Q(.— Table showing hi/ species the salmon pack of the Cohmhia- Biver from. 1S89 to 1892. 
States and species. 
1889. 
1890. 
1891. 
1892. 
C.a'sea. 
Value. 
Cases. 
Value. 
Cases. ! Value. 
1 
Cases, 
Value. 
Oregon : 
140, 741 
15, 979 
11, C92 
$844, 446 
90, 628 
49, 899 
196, 414 
.53, 351 
26, 608 
$1, 138, 787 
268, 104 
106, 432 
222, 963 
10,859 
15, 584 
$1,279,092 
58, 816 
62, 236 
211, 631 
51, 106 
45, 403 
4, 176 
$1, 244, 500 
287, 984 
181, 612 
20, 880 
Total 
168, 412 
984, 973 
276, 373 
1,513,323 
249. 406 
1,400,114 
315,316 
1, 734, 976 
Washington : 
125, 956 
1.818 
13, 699 
755, 736 
10, 423 
58, 688 
139, 190 
3, 994 
16,217 
807, 300 
21, 965 
64, 868 
130, 941 
4.623 
13, 980 
759, 474 
25, 426 
55, 920 
129, 636 
15, 441 
26, 945 
751, 888 
81, 925 
107, 280 
Total 
141, 473 
824, 847 
159, 401 
894, 133 
149, 547 
840, 820 
172, 022 
944, 093 
Total lor river : 
266, 697 
17, 797 
25, 391 
1,600,182 
101, 051 
108, 587 
335, 604 
57, 345 
42, 825 
1, 916, 087 
290, 069 
171, 300 
353, 907 
15,482 
29, 564 
2, 038, 566 
84, 242 
118, 156 
344, 267 
66, 517 
72, 348 
4,176 
1,996, 388 
372, 909 
288, 892 
20, 880 
309, 885 
1, 809, 820 435, 774 
2, 407, 456 
398, 953 
2,240,964 
487, 338 
2, 679, 069 
In 1893 the pack of cliiuook salmon amounted to 290,000 cases. 
The extent to which the different species of salmon enter into the pack, and 
the variations in the proportions during the four years covered by the figures, are 
shown in the following table. It appears that in 1892 the iiercentage of chinook sal- 
mon canned was less and that of each of the other species greater than in any of the 
preceding years. 
Percentage of each species of salmon in the salmon paclc of the Columbia Biver from 1889 to 1892. 
Species. 
1889. 1890. 
1891. 
1892. 
Chinoolc 
1 
86. 06 77.01 
88.71 
70. 64 
Blueback 
5.74 i 13. 16 
3.88 
13.65 
Steelhead 
8.20 1 9.83 
7.41 
14.85 
.86 . 
Total 
1 
100.00 100.00 
100. 00 
100.00 
In discussing the data furnished by the foregoing tables and others which will 
follow, I will confine myself to the chinook salmon for the following reasons: 
1. It is the most important species considered economically. 
2. It is taken equally by all forms of apparatus. 
3. Active fishing operations continue practically during the entire iieriod of its 
sojourn in the river, and it is therefore the species Avhich would be the first to feel the 
intluence of excessive fishing. 
These considerations do not apply with equal force to the other species, viz, the 
steelhead, the blueback, and the silverside, which are taken under similar conditions 
and at present constitute about one-fourth of the entire pack. 
The spawning run of the steelhead takes place before fishing operations have 
begun on the river. 
