. Bulletin of the Bureau of Fisheries. Fisheries; Fish culture. 272 BULLETIN OF THE BUREAU OF FISHERIES. wet uidrasses and sphagmim-cuvorod areas, which are soaked with water and wliirh at times reem to fcmtain water sufficient only to moisten the skin cjf the fish. In the hiw grounds or tunch-a are many, countless thousands, small pontls of very slight dejith, connected with each other by small streams of variable width, * * * These narrow outlets of the ponds are at certain seasons so full of these fish that they completely block them up. The soft, yielding sphagnum moss above is pushed asid
. Bulletin of the Bureau of Fisheries. Fisheries; Fish culture. 272 BULLETIN OF THE BUREAU OF FISHERIES. wet uidrasses and sphagmim-cuvorod areas, which are soaked with water and wliirh at times reem to fcmtain water sufficient only to moisten the skin cjf the fish. In the hiw grounds or tunch-a are many, countless thousands, small pontls of very slight dejith, connected with each other by small streams of variable width, * * * These narrow outlets of the ponds are at certain seasons so full of these fish that they completely block them up. The soft, yielding sphagnum moss above is pushed aside, and under it these fish find a convenient retreat. Here the fish are partially protected from the great cold of winter by the covering of moss and grass. In such situations they collect in such numbers that figiu-es fail to express an adequate idea of their numbers. They are measured by the yard. Their mass is deep according to the nature oi the retreat. * * * The natives repair to the places wliidi are known to be the refuge of these fish and set a small trap. * * * The natives remove the trap every day or two to relieve the pressure on it and to supply their own wants and those of their dogs. * * *" 'From ilay to December, tons and tons of these fish are daily removed. They form the prin- cipal food of the natives living between the Yukon Delta and the Kuskokwim River and as far interior as the l)ases of the higher hills. North of the Yukon Delta they are also abundant. The natives sell many of these fish in baskets, a few cents paying for about three-fourths of a bushel. When taken from the traps the fish are immediately put into these baskets and taken to the village, where the baskets of fish are placed on stages out of the way of dogs. The mass of fish in each basket is frozen in a few minutes, and when required to take them out they have to be chopped out with an ax or beaten with a club to divide them into pieces of sulficieiit size to feed to the Fig. 2
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