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GEORGE G. CROSS JR. Salmon Falls...
...Salmon packers last year sold about 7,500,000 cases for some $60,000,000. This year the loss of many an Alaskan salmon will cut the total to 5,500,000 cases-maybe less. Whatever the pack is, the Government will take it. Meanwhile the industry worries about higher costs (wages are up 25%) and where to find more canning employes (the Japs have gone to concentration camps, the Filipinos to war and better jobs...
Sports fishermen are also hamstrung by wartime restrictions. Last year in Long Island Sound they landed more summer flounder than all commercial fishermen; in some parts of Puget Sound the private salmon catch far outweighs the industrial catch. One hitch: a fat portion of the sport catch is usually wasted; sportsmen can neither sell nor give it all away...
Fish supplies, fresh from the salmon tius of Alaska, have also been cut off by the war, going now to fill the stomachs of soldiers, sailors, and leatherneck marines. With the present war plan instituted by Yale, it is expected that the valuable part played by Elis in the war effort will warrant their being allotted one can of salmon each week...
...fresh-water lakes (35 miles long, six to 15 miles wide). At either end, broad grass-lush prairies melt into smooth bathing beaches; on the east, steep cliffs stand sheer from the water, mount on up into the snowcapped Cabinet Mountains. The lake is fish-chocked: trout, land-locked salmon, whitefish. In summer, scores of pleasure boats, bright with paint, nose over...