Show UI U. S. S INVITES CANADA TO 10 PROTECT SAlMON Vancouver B. B C. C Juno June 7 Definite i. Definite Prospects for the tho preservation of or th the tho I sockeye salmon of or Fraser river and Puget puget sound had ha appeared at last I A treaty for tho protection of dt the galmon salmon sal gal IA mon will bo be ratified f if regulations suggested suggested sug sug- sug-j sug ested by the United States bureau of or fisheries are arc adopted adopt d by the authorities I tics ties of ot British Columbia and antI the state or of Washington The regulations were J I I drawn up by the Canadian American-Canadian fisheries conference in Seattle In April The waters aters in Cn which the sockeye salmon salmon sal sal- mon are arc taken includes IncludeS' the tho Fraser river and Puget sound In both Canada and the United States In 1917 the pack amounted t to I ca cases es In Canada Canada Canada Can Can- CanI I ada and In the United States There were at nt one ono time Cort forty canneries O on the Iaser river In 1918 two could have o handled the pack Tho The shortage is attributed to the tho building of a damon dam darn darnon on Quesnel lake hake In 1902 without provision provision provision pro pro- vision for Cor salmon to ascend the limo river the tho rock slide on Opi Fraser river in 1913 which prevented the salmon Halmon from fromI I reaching their spawning grounds and andI the failure of ot Washington and British I Columbia to adopt protective e law laws Experts Expert estimate the loss to the state I of oC Washington from tho the shortage In salmon 1914 16 at I British Columbian salmon factories employ persons an and l represent an I Investment or of There are arc five fie varieties of Pacific coas salmon J sockeye averaging a six pounds at ma ma- I spring or eight TC I 3 thirty pounds occasionally three thue t t j i sliver silver pounds cohoe or to I II eight pounds pink three el twel i to pounds pound and chum ten I pounds at St m t All tJ se fish return once ell III ellI where ne Ity to spawn In the tho st carn m lie die e both seXeS hatched and wd I were The main r fisheries P spawning Saas rI rIfe Fraser Frasor river rl Skeena river Island T j Isian Vancouver er Rivers inlet and and nd salmon are arc caught In III nets nelS i j Is b Trolling koines and trolling Until coming popular In iii northern norther and SoI Columbia for spring a Many Inn fisherman makes 1200 1 A trolling in a season 4 |