Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from The Salmon of Swiftsure Bank and the Fraser River Sockeye Run of 1912
In the season of 1911, for the first time, purse-seiners operated in the Cape region and were accompanied by an unprecedented number of trollers. There are said to have been in commission about twenty-two seine-boats and perhaps 250 trollers. N 0 close estimate can be made of the total output of the district during 1911. The best figures available indicate cohoes or silver salmon, and an equal number of pinks or humpbacks. No record is obtainable of the spring salmon, but it is safe to assume that they were taken in about the small proportion as existed in 1912. Sockeyes and chums or dog-salmon were taken in very small numbers.
Finally, in 1912 over 100 purse -seine boats were operating out of Neah Bay at one time, with a total for the season of probably over 125. There were probably 400 or 450 trollers at work some time during the season. But the total yield of the Bank was less than for 1911, in spite of the great increase in amount of gear. This was due in part to the fact that 1912 was an off-year for humpbacks, partly perhaps to unfavourable weather, but in part, without question, to the diminished run of cohoes or silver salmon. Over 100 purse-seiners in 1912 failed to increase, if indeed they equalled, the catch of cohoes made by twenty-two purse seiners in 1911.
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