Show I GA CATCH OF SALMON THREATENING S J INDUSTRY Depletion of Supply Within Ten Years Year Is Predicted SEATTLE Wash Jul July An An Industry In which millions are In Invested invested In- In vested and from rom which a great reat food tood supply of or high importance Is drawn is doomed doome to extinction unless the consumption of ot salmon can be balanced by artificial prop- prop os And efforts In that dire tion have thus far fallen lanen short of f success Professor John N. N Cobb director lit if f the College of ot Fisheries of oC the University of or Washington and formerly the representative of ot the United States bureau of or fisheries In lit Alaska says that the tho salmon j will commercially be In the class with the buffalo unless something Intervenes Dies After Spawning Salmon are arc peculiarly exposed to the peril of oC extinction Professor sor Cobb explained b because the bulk of this fish Is taken during the spawning runs The adult fish after growing to maturity in the open sea ascends fresh water vater rivers to spawn at the age IC of 1 4 years and after atter sp spawning dies die Fishermen n and packers are well aware asare the unrestricted catching of or salmon would presently put them out of business but hut hatchery proJects and protection periods have been more than offset b by the expansion expansion ex ex- of or the fishing fishing- industry In response to market demand Tho pack of ot salmon reached Its high hish mark during the war Last year the output of oC all aU canneries on tho the Pacific Including those n Japan British Columbia and Si Siberia SI Si- beria berla was 1 cases Americans Americans Ameri Amen cans produced cases of or this amount A case contains forty-eight forty pound one cans In III all the rivers of or the entire Pacific coast of or North America tho mysterious life-cycles life of the tho five species of ot salmon are completed com corn under varying conditions But whatever the spawning habit of oC a given gh-en species In any water the taking of or each salmon means the destruction of or a a. quantity of ot spawn The taking of ot salmon Is forbidden during specified days das of ot each week to permit a a. percentage percent percent- age to reach the spawning beds and In addition th the tho hatcheries plant millions of or spawn each season But man mar Is cutting Into natures nature's reserve faster than he Is replenIshing replenishing them It Is predicted that within ten years an abrupt slump In the catch m may y put an end to the in industry in- in |