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Show Odd Fishing Several hundred Indians, Including women and children, assembled at Fisher Bay, at the mouth of the Naas river, ln early spring, awaiting the arrival ar-rival of the oolichans, according to word from Prince Rupert, British Columbia. Co-lumbia. The annual run of the fish usually lasts a month. The Indians come from great distances- to fish for them through the Ice, and out of the catch they make oolichnn grease, which they use in place of butter. In previous years as many as 1,000 of the Indians have assembled at the mouth of the river, but this year there were not more than 300. |