Report of the Commissioner for the year ending June 30, 1899 . d if the skiffs werefitted up with small naphtha engines and paddles or screws. On theriver the shad-gillers have fitted up some of their skiffs in this such an arrangement the fishermen would be independent of theweather. It is important that sturgeon be landed at the butcheringfloats or wharves at the earliest moment possible, and when the wind isadverse it is difficult to do this without the exhausting operation ofrowing, and even this is impossible if the skiffis very far from the camp. CLASSIFICATION AND VALUE OF FISH
Report of the Commissioner for the year ending June 30, 1899 . d if the skiffs werefitted up with small naphtha engines and paddles or screws. On theriver the shad-gillers have fitted up some of their skiffs in this such an arrangement the fishermen would be independent of theweather. It is important that sturgeon be landed at the butcheringfloats or wharves at the earliest moment possible, and when the wind isadverse it is difficult to do this without the exhausting operation ofrowing, and even this is impossible if the skiffis very far from the camp. CLASSIFICATION AND VALUE OF FISH. The fishermen classify the fish as follows: Cow fish, female stur-geon which have hard roe,which is the kind used in preparing caviar;runners, female fish with soft spawn which is running out of the fishand is generally too soft to be used for caviar; slunkers, female fishwhich have already spawned; bucks, male fish of all kinds. Thelast three are valuable only for the tlesh. Two-thirds of the catch is Report U. S. F. C. 1899. (To face page 376.) Plate SKINNING A STURGEON.
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