NOTES ON THE FISHERIES OF THE PACIFIC COAST. 
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gill nets, and the chiiiook is by far the most valuable species taken in the j)omuls. 
More bluebaciis than Chinooks, however, are seemed in iiouiul nets some seasons, the 
yield of the former usually being larger than in any other forms of nets except w^heels. 
The catch of steelheads is always larger in pound nets than in other appliances. 
The quantity of salmon taken with seines is less than with any other important 
form of apparatus. The number of seines used is relatively small, and the invest- 
ment in this kind of fishing apparatus is insigniticant conqiared with that in gill nets, 
pound nets, or wdieels. In ordinary seasons more chinooks than any other species are 
caught in seines, although in seasons when there is a particularly heavy run of blue- 
backs in the river, as, for instance, in 1802, the catch of bluebacks is largest. The 
number of seines used on the Columbia is usually about forty, most of which are 
operated in the lower river near its mouth. 
The following figures represent the results of a seine fishery in the lower Colum- 
bia in 1892, 1893, and 1894, the record for the last year being incomplete. In the 
first year the fishing season was from April 20 to August 11. In 1893 seining opera- 
tions did not begin till June 30. The ligures are given to show the variations in the 
catch of different species from month to month and the relative quantities of each 
taken by this means. The catch of this seine is larger than the average for the river, 
being 124,353 pounds in 1892 and 60,673 iiounds in 1893. 
Statement of the daihj catch of Chinook, steeUiead, and bluehack salmon in a seine fished at Broionsport 
Sands, opposite Pillar Hook, Columbia River, hi 1892, 1893, and 1894 {to June 1). 
Date. 
1892. 
1893. 
1894. 
Chinooks 
(pounds). 
Blue- 
hacks 
(liouiids). 
Steel- 
heads 
(pounds). 
Chinooks 
(pounds). 
Bine- 
backs 
(pounds). 
Steel- 
heads 
(pounds). 
Chinooks 
(pounds). 
Blue- 
backs 
(pounds). 
Steel- 
heads 
(pounds). 
501 
600 
0-; 
452 
285 
407 
211 
155 
120 
49 
Ofi 
340 
104 
9:7 
123 
67 
17 
9A 
670 
279 
90 
312 
2U0 
788 
394 
Tnfnl 
3, 470 
2. 073 
278 
187 
66 
Mqy ^ 
319 
373 
248 
96 
96 
4 
894 
671 
5 
1 097 
47 
791 
115 
295 
96 
7 
1, 035 
1,064 
8 
78 
121 
g 
629 
537 
12,9 
480 
16 
10 
1, 144 
1,052 
616 
11 
1 734 
1, 929 
209 
544 
27 
12 
1, 413 
1,764 
137 
516 
13 
958 
1, 327 
14 
1, 197 
2, 711 
15 
327 
912 
44 
16 
623 
244 
196 
1, 052 
18 
492 
278 
398 
’ 752 
71 
19 
378 
218 
411 
276 
15 
20 
461 
• 596 
21 
1, 138 
597 
190 
94 
17 
23 
305 
47 
109 
118 
24 
730 
38 
25 
789 
116 
27 
299 
94 
35 
28 
227 
22 
Total 
16, 354 
14, 234 
3, 238 
5, 553 
543 
160 
36 
9 
473 
30 
64 
10 
1,010 
62 
54 
11 
'473 
113 
62 
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