Excerpt from The Fisheries and Fishery Industries of the United States, Vol. 4: Prepared Through the Co-Operation of the Commissioner of Fisheries and the Superintendent of the Tenth Census; The Fishermen of the United States The salmon and other fisheries of Puget Sound are prosecuted chiefly by the aid of Indian fishermen. In Alaska, where the population depends almost entirely upon the fisheries for sup port, the head of every family is a professional fisherman. Though upon a very low estimate one fourth of the inhabitants of Alaska should be considered as fishermen, few of them catch fish for the use of others than their own immediate dependents. Only one Chinaman has as yet enrolled himself among the fishermen of the Atlantic coast, but in California and Oregon there are about of these men, all of whom, excepting about 300, are employed as factory hands in the salmon canneries of the Sacramento and Columbia basins. The 300 who have the right to be classed among the actual fishermen live, for the most part, in California, and the product of their industry is, to a very great extent, exported to China, although they supply the local demands of their countrymen resident on the Pacific coast. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.