Report of the Commissioner for the year ending June 30, 1899 . s have become themost important means of capture. Before their introduction purseand drag seines and gill nets were the principal appliances and they arestill used. There is some hook-and-line fishing, and reef nets continueto be employed by a considerable number of Indians. In the Strait of Juan de Fuca there is comparatively little fishingfor salmon. Small quantities are taken about Becher Bay, on the Van-couver Island side, chiefly by Indians, who also fish at the outer entranceof the strait, off Cape Flattery and Neah Bay, wher
Report of the Commissioner for the year ending June 30, 1899 . s have become themost important means of capture. Before their introduction purseand drag seines and gill nets were the principal appliances and they arestill used. There is some hook-and-line fishing, and reef nets continueto be employed by a considerable number of Indians. In the Strait of Juan de Fuca there is comparatively little fishingfor salmon. Small quantities are taken about Becher Bay, on the Van-couver Island side, chiefly by Indians, who also fish at the outer entranceof the strait, off Cape Flattery and Neah Bay, where one or morespecies are said to be sometimes quite abundant. On the southshore fishing in a small way, mainly for the fresh market and localuse, has been carried on for some years, seines, gill nets, and hooksand lines being used. It is engaged in by both whites and Indians,who operate at several the coast, and also to a slightextent in the Elwhaand Dungeness rivers. The sockeye is not known Report U. S. F. C. 1899. (To face page 292. Plate
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