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Salmon trap in an Alaskan river. This form of trap is extensively used in the Bristol Bay region, and takes immense quantities of salmon for the canneries. The largest traps have leaders more than half a mile long, and cost upward of $15,000

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Category	Commercial Fisheries
Caption	Salmon trap in an Alaskan river. This form of trap is extensively used in the Bristol Bay region, and takes immense quantities of salmon for the canneries. The largest traps have leaders more than half a mile long, and cost upward of $15,000
Image Date	1910
Subject	Fish traps--Alaska Salmon fisheries--Alaska
Object type	image
Image Source Author	Smith, Hugh M.
Image Source Title	United States Bureau of Fisheries : its Establishment, Functions, Organization, Resources, Operations, and Achievements
Pub. Info.	Washington, DC : Government Printing Office, 1910
Image Source Series	Bulletin of the Bureau of Fisheries, vol. 28, 1908, Part 2
Page No./Plate No.	Plate CLI-2
Digital collection	Freshwater and Marine Image Bank
Repository	Most materials are located in the University of Washington Libraries. Images were scanned by staff of the UW Fisheries-Oceanography Library
Copyright	Materials in the Freshwater and Marine Image Bank are in the public domain. No copyright permissions are needed. Acknowledgement of the Freshwater and Marine Image Bank as a source for borrowed images is requested.
Ordering Information	The University of Washington Libraries does not provide reproductions of this image. This record contains a citation for this image. If you want to use the scanned image, acknowledgement of the Freshwater and Marine Image Bank as a source for borrowed images is requested.
Type	Image