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BULLETIN OF THE UNITED STATES FISH COMMISSION. 
fish oil in this locality might be made a profitable business. There are nnmerous 
islands along the inner coast of Vancouver Island, where dogfish try-works could be 
established, and the fishing continued during the entire year. 
A few Indians fish in the bay chiefly for salmon, to supply the market at Nanaimo 
as well as their own wants. Their method of fishing is to troll with hook and spoon. 
They use dug-out canoes measuring from 12 to 20 feet in length, which, in their con- 
struction, show great attention to symmetry of outline, and much care and ingenuity 
in workmanship. They cost, when new, from S5 to $20 each, according to size. 
The fishing boats used by the white men mostly range in length from 15 to 20 feet, 
and are both clinker and carv'el built. Some are sloops, while others have a two- 
masted sprit-sail rig. They are all rudely constructed and are not neat in their 
api)earance. 
Fishing in Departure Bay and Harbor is seldom interfered with by the presence 
of ice during the winter months. 
