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Tragedy of the Sockeye
By Mr. Babcock m Canadian . .
Fisheries
Dr. Gilbert, in one of his
classic “Contributions to the
Life History of the Sockeye Sal
mon,” published in the Reports
of the British Columbia Fish
eries Department, states that—
sockeye shows unmistakably
that the three small years of
each cycle were over-fished
early in the industry. During the
early years, when fishing was
confined to the region about the
mouths of the river and drift
nets alone were employed, no
evidence exists of overfishing.
The last cycle in which these
conditions obtained was 1894
1896. During each of the small
years of that cycle there were
packed approximately 350,000
cases on the Fraser River and
about 60,000 cases in Puget
Sound. During each of those
years, therefore, about five mil
lion sockeye were taken from
the spawning run * * * Appar
ently, however, a third of a mil
lion cases a year could be safe
ly taken, for the following cycle
shows no decrease. * * * During
the following period of four
years (1897-1900) the TRAPS
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IN PUGET SOUND BECAME AN
IMPORTANT MATTER. While
the B. C. Pack showed little or
no reduction, it was now met by
a pack on Puget Sound which
nearly equalled it. The total
catches during the three - off
years of that cycle nearly doubl
ed those of the preceding cycle
and exacted an average toll of
about 10,000,000 fish from the
spawning run of 1897-1900. The
total pack of the three small
years of that cycle was over 2~
000.000 cases.”
Turning now to the decline
in the runs of the big years. The
records are equally clear. As
already stated, the sockeye runs
in the big years 1897, 1901, 1905,
1909 and 1913 produced an aver
age pack of 1,777,585 cases, and
it should be noted that the
catches on both sides of the line
in 1901 and 1905 exceeded the
the canning capacity and sev
eral millions of fish were wasted.
Up to and including 1913 the
packs in the big year show no
evidence of an overdrain on the
spawning runs. The B. C. Fish
eries report for 1913, shows that
the escapement that year was
as great, if not greater than in
the preceding big year, 1909—
the brood year of the 1913 run.
3ut that report also shows that
the escapement in 1913 met
After frantic and continuous
efforts to evorcome the obstruc
tion the fish became exhausted
and were swept downstream,
where they died without spawn
ing. The Report of the B. C.'
Fisheries Department for 1913
deals exhaustively in both textj
and illustration with the dis-!
asier to the escapement in 1913.
That report shows that the
number of sockeye that reached
the spawning beds above Hell’s
Gate Canyon in 1913 was less
than an eighth of the number
that reached the beds in 1909.
The escapement in 1913 did
not reach the spawning beds for
the reason that the river’s chan
nel above Yale—known as Hell’s
Gate Canyon—w a s virtually
closed to the passage of fish by
a great rock slide. Millions of
hsh that had escaped capture
and reached the obstruction in
Hell’s Gate Canyon were unable
to pass over it, notwithstanding
|that strenuous efforts were
| made to enable them to do so.
| This is made manifest by brief
! reference to the spawning beds
; reports for 1909 and 1913. In
i 1909 four million adult sockeye
were counted as they entered
Quesnel Lake, one of the great
lakes in the Fraser basin above
Hell’s Gate. In 1913 a similar
count records that only 500,000
entered that lake. The spawn
ing report of the B. C. Fisheries
Department for 1913 concludes
with the following words: “The
foregoing statements warrant
the conclusion that the number
of sockeye that spawned in the
Fraser watershed this year was
not sufficient to make the run
four years hence even approxi
mate the runs of either 1905,
1909 or 1913.” The accuracy of
that forecast and the disastrous
effects of the 1913 blockade
were made manifest on the fish
ing grounds in 1917. Notwith
standing that far more fisher
men and more fishing gear were
employed and a much higher
price paid for the fish on both
sides of the line in 1917, the to
tal catch produced a pack of
but 559.732 cases, as against 2,
392,895 cases in 1913.
Then came the disaster of
with disaster and that compara
tively few sockeye reached the
spawning beds that year, with
the result that four years later
—1917—the pack fell to 559.732
cases, or close to 77 per cent
less than in 1913.
Hon. James Wickersham was
a passenger returning to Juneau
on the steamer Alaska.
C. H. Sundmacher
Attorney at Law
Arctic Hotel Petersburg
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