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THE BOOK OF FISHES 
Photograph by Shirley C. Hulse 
SALMON LEAPING OVER THE SWIFT WATER NEAR THE TOE OF CADAZERO DAM 
AND SEEN FROM ABOVE 
species is shown by the fact that of the 
forty-four million salmon utilized in 1911, 
about seventeen and one-half million were 
the former and twenty-one and one-half 
million the latter. 
To have transported, in a fresh con¬ 
dition, the output of 1917 would have 
required a train of 12,000 freight cars, 
each holding 30,000 pounds of fish. If 
placed end to end, the fish would have 
extended in an unbroken line five times 
across the continent from New York to 
San Francisco. 
FEDERAL GOVERNMENT SUPREME IN 
ALASKA 
Interest in the salmon fisheries of 
Alaska is increased by the fact that they 
are under the jurisdiction of the Federal 
government. The remarkable develop¬ 
ment of the industry and its flourishing 
condition are to be attributed in great 
measure to the wise policy adopted by 
the government in encouraging the utili¬ 
zation of the resources while safeguard¬ 
ing the supply. Under the wise laws 
made by Congress, supplemented by the 
large discretionary powers invested in 
the Secretary of Commerce, the salmon 
fisheries ought to remain unimpaired for 
an indefinite period. 
UNITED STATES CONTROLS INDUSTRY 
The major key to the situation is the 
authority to close to all fishing for a term 
of years any stream in which the extent 
of the fishing is disproportionate to the 
number of fish that are allowed to reach 
their spawning grounds. 
Although the fishery force available 
for patrolling the Alaska coast is woe¬ 
fully inadequate, yet even in the most 
remote and seldom visited parts there is 
a wholesale sentiment for salmon pro¬ 
tection, and violations of the law are 
surprisingly few. 
The large fishing companies, with im¬ 
mense vested interests, are vitallv con- 
