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Salmon Cannery at Requa on the Klamath Estuary, 1912. Canneries operated at the mouth of the Klamath until 1933. According to Snyder (1931), the cannery capacity of 6,000 fish was reached in less than a half hour one morning in the 1920's. Photo courtesy of the Humboldt Collection, Humboldt State University, Arcata, CA. Press F1 for help in use of Picture tools.


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Fishing with gill nets at the mouth of the Klamath to supply canneries circa 1920. Photo courtesy of the Humboldt Collection, Humboldt State University, Arcata, CA. Press F1 for help in use of Picture tools.