250 
BULLETIN OF THE UNITED STATES FISH COMMISSION. 
Statement of the daily gill-net catch of four fishermen fi.shmg at the mouth of the Columbia 
Biver in 1894 {to June SO) — Continued. 
Date. 
No. 1. Xo. 2. 
Xo. 3. 
Xo. 4. 
Total. 
Chi- 
nooks. 
Steel- Chi- 
heacls. nooks. 
Steel- 
heads. 
Chi- 
nooks. 
Steel- 
heads. 
Chi- 
nooks. 
Steel- 
heads. 
Chi. 
nooks. 
Steel- 
heads. 
Lbs. 
155 
Lbs. 
Lbs. 
48 
89 
152 
Lbs. 
Lbs. 
550 
248 
Lbs. 
Lbs. 
200 
Lbs. 
Lbs. 
1,013 
337 
231 
301 
405 
907 
39 
458 
1,015 
1..549 
697 
453 
IIS 
386 
841 
1,319 
Lbs. 
3 
79 
119 
25 
18 
4 
182 
105 
285 
5 
250 
604 
25 
7 
8 
39 
ISO 
137 
70 
120 
49 
9 
278 
292 
606 
138 
130 
533 
76 
62 
185 
10 
275 
636 
267 
188 
245 
311 
237 
172 
86 
11 
12 
5 
5 
16 
17 
310 
249 
164 
18 
312 
298 
218 
672 
19 
20 
21 
1, 013 
678 
525 
124 
297 
254 
495 
159 
115 
485 
1, 165 
1, 438 
10 
4, 141 
802 
297 
922 
2, 022 
625 
861 
907 
324 
2,010 
10 
22 - . 
23 
24 
132 
480 
197 
222 
581 
144 
462 
195 
314 
466 
125 
284 
25 
22 
22 
26 
28 
29 
227 
324 
444 
30 
31 
411 
620 
535 
6, 725 
22 
4,497 
7, 059 
5,359 
15 
23, 640 
37 
350 
1, 010 
315 
340 
15 
459 
1,494 
1,025 
9 
3. 
4 ' 
483 
80 
563 
708 
350 
1,893 
1,572 
553 
1, 916 
345 
1,632 
1,919 
2, 320 
1,736 
3, 248 
435 
1, 145 
5 
403 
305 
6 
o50 
290 
508 
142 
525 
7 
344 
390 
249 
1,025 
626 
633 
674 
8 
9 
113 
128 
49 
238 
11 
12 
345 
1,248 
65 
9 
9 
12 
29 
43 
60 
36 
11 
14 
13 
285 
368 
1,711 
12 
29 
31 
* 6) 
32? 
10 
99 
547 
184 
887 
355 
14 
939 
425 
510 
737 
201 
841 
15 
12 
22 
6 
16 \ 
180 
896 
234 
159 
1, 260- 
18 
20 
11 
19 
20 
304 
14 
* Blueback. 
The great multiplication of pound nets in the lower Columbia, es]pecially in 
Baker Bay and around Sand Island, is a feature of the salmon fisheries which 
impresses a visitor very forcibly. The nets form such a maze on the Washington side 
of the river that it seems impossible for salmon entering the river west of Sand Island 
to escape capture, and it would appear that access to so many nets is cut off' by the 
lines of other nets that a large proportion of the traps wonld fail to pay expenses. 
A Washingtondaw requires that each trap set in the waters of the State shall be 
licensed. In 1893, 460 traps were licensed to fish in the Columbia Eiver, of which 
442 were in Baker Bay. In 1894 the number was 410, of which 387 Avere in the bay, 
as 1 am informed by Mr. James Crawford, the fish commissioner of Washington. Most 
of these are owned in Oregon and are properly credited to the fisheries of that State. 
The law also requires that a space of 800 feet be left between each line of traps and a 
.space of at least 50 feet between the bowl of one net ami the leader of the next. 
The catch of chiuooks in pound nets is larger than in any other apparatus except 
