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piles driven into the bed of the river. Scores of fishing boats (if the salmon catching fleet are moored to the wharfs and landing stages, and these, with the buildings, form in the background a constant change of panorama as the tugboat (from which this view was photographed), glides rapidly past.
The next Section shows a tugboat towing a fleet offish ing craft down the river, " dropping " one after the other as the salmon " grounds " are reached . after each small boat casts loose, the crew of same hoist sail and begin operations.
The third Section gives a splendid view of one of the many salmon traps in the Fraser River, being emptied of its catch.
These salmon traps are a series of nets strung between piles driven into the bed of the river. The fishermen arc seen hauling in these nets and emptying their contents into a scow by various methods ; viz., pole or catch net, fork, hoisting nets by hand and steam, &c, until the scow is filled with a squirming, slashing mass of salmon, wonderful to behold
Emptying Salmon into Barge on the Frazer River
As soon as a scow is filled, it is towed to one of the Canneries at Stevenson by tugboat, and the next Section depicts such scene.
The fish are finally landed by " chuting " same from the scows into the cleaning sheds of the Cannerie. Here hundreds of Indians are at work, opening, gutting and cutting the salmon into sections, when these latter are put into tin cans, scaled, steamed, labelled, crated and are then ready for transportation to the World's Markets for tinned salmon England drawing her main supply from Stevenson, B.C.