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StereographEntry/Object ID
2023.055.3.0409Description
A black and white stereograph. Image is of man standing in water holding a large cast net with many fishin in it. Above the image "72" is printed, below the image "V23270- Seining Chinook Salmon, Largest Variety Known, Columbus Riber, Oregon." is printed, to the left of the image "Keystone View Company Copyright, Underwood & Underwood Manufacturers MADE IN U.S.A. Publishers" is printed, to the right of the image "Meadville, Pa., New York, N. Y., Portland, Oregon, London, Eng., Sydney, Aus." is printed. On the reverse the following is printed:
V23270
SEINING CHINOOK SALMON RIVER, OREGON
The Columbia River is the only river which rises east of the Rocky Mts. and cuts its way across them to the Pacific Ocean. The Lower Columbia has long been famous for its textensive salmon fisheries. The salmon leave the salt water when they are ready to spawn, and seek cold streams coming from the snow fields of the Cascade Range. They lay their eggs far upstream and then drift back down stream they die soon after spawning. When the young are a few inches long they swim to the ocean, where a greater part of their lives is spent. They usually return to their native streams at spawning time.
As the salmon run upsteram they are caught in great numbers. The Indians are especially skillful in spearing them. They also set traps for the fish near the banks of the river. The mt common method used by whtie men for catching salmon are the fishwheel and the net. In this view they are using the latter method for catcing the quinnat salmon, the largest of the five species of the Pacific. Often several thousand are caught as the result of one day's fishing. Some of these are so large that two men are required to handle one buck. The salmon are taken in boatloads to nearby canneries, where they are prepared for exportation. In one year it has been estimated t the pack of canned salmn in Alaska and the Pacific States exceeded six million cases of forty-eight one-oound cnas, valued at thirty million dollars.
This scene is about fifty miles above Portland. Salmon rank next to cod and herring in commercial value, and the cash receipts for them annually are greater than for any other fish.
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