Salmon purse seiner anchoring net on shore - attempting to capture all salmon swimming close to the beach.

Salmon purse seiners

Salmon purse seiner setting net close to shore

Salmon purse seiner setting net close to shore

Salmon purse seiner setting net close to shore

Salmon purse seiner setting net close to shore

Salmon purse seiner at dock

Salmon purse seiner at dock with dinghy

Purse seine boat unloading halibut

Seining salmon with team of small boats

Unloading salmon from boat to truck

PHOENIX III, a tender, brailing salmon trap

Purse seiners in the harbor

Purse seiners in the harbor

Salmon caught in a purse net

The WESTERN FLYER, a chartered purse seine boat, operating salmon purse seine in experimental fishing.

King salmon hanging in smokehouse at the South Bend Oyster Company.

Salmon ready for ripening at Booth Fisheries

Smoking salmon by "standard" cure method. Mild cure salmon being given 4-5 day smoking.

Chunks of salmon on tray ready for smoking at Booth Fisheries

Smoking salmon by "standard" cure method. Mild cure salmon being given 4-5 day smoking at Perfection Smokery.

Chunks of salmon on tray ready for smoking at Booth Fisheries

Smoking salmon by "standard" cure method. Mild cure salmon being given 4-5 day smoking at Perfection Smokery.

Nason Creek Weir. Many of the fish hauled by tank truck from Rock Island Dam fish collectors were placed in Nason Creek for subsequent spawning. This weir across the creek was installed to prevent these adult spawners from dropping back down the creek into the Columbia River and resuming their original migration route.

Spawning a ripe red salmon

Salmon on spawning bed

Sorting salmon in holding ponds. Immature or "green" fish are left in ponds until mature, usually about a week later. Preparatory to removing eggs for artificial propagation at the Big White Salmon Hatchery.

Removing spawn or eggs from mature salmon for artificial propagation.

A fish truck opens its chute and adult salmon captured in traps at Grand Coulee dam find a new home.

Dead salmon after spawning in Swan Creek

A few migrating salmon at the mouth of Pack Creek

Eggs taken from female (R) salmon are fertilized with sperm or milt from male ( L) salmon

Removing eggs from female salmon

Spawned out pink salmon at the Karluk River Weir.

Spawned out pink salmon. Toting rifle for protection from bears.

Salmon egg incubators through with water flows continuously.

Spawned out and bear-killed pink salmon. Toting rifle for protection from bears.

Red salmon killed by brown bear on spawning stream

School of sockeye salmon waiting to spawn in Forfar Creek.

Spawning a ripe red salmon

Aerial photo of salmon spawning in Bristol Bay area stream

Pink salmon on spawning ground

Artificial spawning ground at Jones Creek. Section of spawning channel. Channel was pushed out by bulldozer. Gradient regulated by plank barriers. Flow controlled at head of channel which flows from main stream.

Aerial photo graph of entrance of salmon spawning creek. Dots are salmon.

Aerial photo graph of entrance of salmon spawning creek. Compare to previous shot, fish5927, which was taken when salmon were running.

Scow load of sockeye salmon

Snow conditions at Katlian Bay salmon station

Snow at Katlian Bay salmon station

Snow at Katlian Bay salmon station

Rex Gary Schmidt taking underwater motion pictures of salmon. Clothed in rubber frogman suit, he wears a snorkel mask as he pushes the underwater motion picture camera ahead of him.