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TREGONNING OUTBOARD MOTOR BOATS and SKIFFS \
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“Traps Leading Factor”
i Commercial fishing for sock
e began in the State of Wash
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mgton waters of the system in
1, with the installation of
i. ajjs iii me vicinity of Point
Roberts. Proving most effect
ive, the number of traps em
ployed increased rapidly and
became the leading factor in
1897. Purse seines came into
use in American waters in 1901
and have since that year been
xtensively used. Since 1901,
with one or two minor excep
'tions, the yearly catch in Am
erican waters of the system has
been in excess of 60 per cent of
the total catch.
“Glory Destroyed”
| Production in the system in
1 the big years of each four-year
cycle reached its height in 1913
with a total pack of 2,392,895
cases, containing the edible por
j ion of over 25,000,000 individu
»al sockeye. In 1917, the big
year following the record high
pack of 1913, the pack fell to
o9:702 cases, a drop of close
0 77 per cent. Since 1917 the
packs in the big years of each
i our-year cycle have not ex
! reeded 148.000 cases and can no
j longer be distinguished by their
1 size from the packs of the three
mall years. There has been
no periodicity in abundance
since 1917. The glory of the
Fraser has been destroyed.
The catches in the small years
01 each cycle up to the period
| of 1898, 1899 and 1900 display
| no evidence of depletion. In
leach of those small years the
; pack averaged 648,912 cases.
From then on the packs in the
(small years rapidly declined. In
1; each of the last eight years the
| total pack in any one year has
! not exceeded 159,000 cases and
I in one year—1923—it fell to 79,
j 57 cases. The pack in the last
‘eight years has averaged but
j "3.372 cases. Furthermore the
: Is of the pack in recent years
I has consisted of late running
fish,—runs that were not drawn
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> \ on prior to 1914.
The factors that so speedily
I destroyed the sockeye run to
i the Fraser River System are
: easily determined. In 1901 the
{Fisheries Department of the B.
| C. Government inaugerated a
system of inspecting the entire
j spawning areas of the Fraser
I River. An annual inspection
has been made and reports pub
! fished, these reports have cab
led attention to the significant
fact that the greater propor
tion of the vast spawning beds
: of the Fraser basin were but
I lightly seeded in each of the
i small years since 1909.
“Causes of Small Years”
“The result was quickly ap
parent. * * * The small years!
of the following cycle showed
such a marked decline as to in
dicate that we had far over-;
stepped the line of safety. It was j
then during the cycle of 1897-!
1900 that the first serious dam
age was done to the sockeye run
of the Fraser. By doubling the
pack of the three small years,
not only was the surplus fully
taken but the necessary spawn
ing reserve was seriously en
croached on—with the result
that in the small years of the
following cycle (1902, 1903 and
1904), in spite of the increased
amount of gear employed, the
pack was cut in half, while the
spawning-beds at the same time
were but sparsely seeded.
“The inevitable and and dis
astrous trend of events should
have been evident to the dull
est. But the parties in interest
refused to hold their hands and
proceeded with the slaughter
of the spawning remnant.”
FIGURES ON OIL OUTPUT
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World petroleum production
for 1928 was estimated by the
United States Bureau of Mines
to be 1,322,896,000 barrels, of
which the United States’ output
was 902,000.000 barrels or 68.0
per cent of the world total.
The 1928 output from the
United States was slightly in ex
cess o fthe 1927 output, which
was 901.129.000 barrels. The bu
reau said there had been steady
effort on the part of producing
interests to control American
output, but that Texas, Okla
homa and California had main
tained heavy flow of oil through
out the year.
After the United States. Ven
ezuela was the country of great
est importance in world produc
tion. Its output for 1928 was
106.000 000 barrels, a sharp gain
over the 63.134,000 attributed to
Venezuela for 1927. Russia was
third with a 1928 production of
87.800.000 barrels against 1927
output of 77 0’8,0Q0 barrels. Mex
ico was still in fourth place, tho
its 50.150.000-barrel output of
1928 was-below the 1927 figure
of 64,121,000 barrels. Persia,
Rumania, the Netherlands, East
Indies. Colombia and Peru fol
lowed in the order named among
world oil producers, and each
of them increased its 1928 out
put over 1927 figures.
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C. H Sunc'macher
Attorney at Law
Arctic Hotel
’etersburg
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1929 Sale* Dates
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July 24 Not ember 27
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