Salt Lake Telegram | 1934-02-15 | Page 20 | Salmon Fleet Braves Storm-Swept Ocean

SALMON FLEET BM VES-i VES SWEPT STORM-SWEPT OCEAN Advance in Ui Prices Causes Pacific Coast Fishermen n t tc Start Work Ahead of Usual Time 1 Feb 15 Death CAP AP Death in SEATTLE a swept storm sea holds no fe fetor lean for tor the vanguard of the giant giant Pacific northwest salmon fleet which 1 L heading toward Alaska in tiny boats early in hi the se season seon SOn because o of tiA m usually high salmon prices Trolling boats plowed outside the I three-mile three limit ahead of time and ahead of ot hundreds of others that will leave Puget sound and Alaska as the season of the silver horde gets under underway underway way because they can get 14 to 18 cents a pound compared with 4 to 8 cents last year Hundreds of bobbing craft will anchor an an- chor char off oft the fishing banks between today and the middle of March dod dodging ing sudden ing-sudden sudden squalls sometimes riding out northern gales that turn the blue waters of the north Pacific to gray- gray green sometimes dashing for an Alaskan Alaskan Alas kan port with a storm sending terrific ter ter- ter rifle riffe combers crashing over their superstructures superstructures su su- su- su salting men and salmon with briny spume Prosperity rides with the fleet this year say boat captains who have fought the seas for tor salmon every year for decades Not only will a fleet of several hundred hun him dred boats with crews numbering more than 1000 hover off oU the fishing banks catching a full cargo then dashing for port but cannery workers work work- ers era already are beginning to pate I II I The larger boats whose captains are willing to risk early season gales left port first as they may fish outside outside outside out out- side the three mile limit