duced a pack of 97,594 coses, as
acrainst 44,673 cases in 1926, 112,
02.3 cases in 1925, 69,369 cases lu
1924, and 47,402 cases in 1923. ••
"The total catch of sockeye made
in Provincial waters of the Fraser
River system in 1927 produced a
pack of 158,987 cases, the largest
since 1917. It was 50,192 cases
greater than in the preceding fourth
year.
The catches of sockeye made in
Provincial waters of the Fraser Riv
er system in 1927 again illustrated
the tendency towards a late run.
Of the 61,393 cases packed this year,
2.412 cases were packed in July
13,381 cases in August, 37,565
cases in September and 8,035 cases
in October. Over 70 per cent con
sisted of sockeye caught after Sep
tember first. Before the sockeye
run to the Fraser was so depleted
the pack was made from Ash caught
before August 25th, and compara
tively few were caught later. Only
<n a few big years were sockeye in
numbers taken from the Fraser in
September and October.
I saw and beard of fewer sockeye
In the spawning area of the Fraser
basin above Hell’s Gate Canyou in
August and September of this year
than in any of the preceding twenty
four years in which I have hunted
there for them in those mouths.
It was like hunting for a needle in
a haystack. In most of the lakes in
the Upper Fraser basin, which in
cludes Stuart, Fraser, Francois,
Quesnel, Seton, Anderson, and Situs
w&p, visited in August and Septem
ber. I did not see or hear of mor*
than a few hundred sockeye in an/
of them.
The reports made to Major Moth
erwell indicate that a few thousand
sockeye spawned in the Horsefly
River, a tributary of Quesnel Lake
it October, but sockeye were not
reported as having bsen seen in any
other tributary of that great lake. Tti
this connection it should be noted
that in the big yeurs, when the Fras
er produced more sockeye than any
other river in the world, the runt
of sockeye to the Upper Fraser
basin were always- greatest In Aug
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the exception of Sutou. Anderson and
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ed tne upper lake sections of the
Fraser since 1913 that It is being
forgotten what vast numbers spawn
ed in their tributaries in past big
years, and that up to 1008 a consid
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eye were noted as they entered the
Qucsnel Lake in 1909, and that the
numbers which reached Chilko Lake
that year were approximately as
great. Even in 1913, the year of th i
disastrous blockade in Hell's Gate
Canyon, over 550,000 sockeye were
counted ns they entered Qnesnel
Lake in August, and the reports of
th:*t year 'ndicate that as great a
number reached both Chilko and
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