Illegal Salmon Become Christmas Dinner for the Needy
A thousand pounds of confiscated salmon from five Grays Harbor fishermen and a meat market feed families in Aberdeen, Hoquiam and Seattle.
The 1,000 pounds of confiscated salmon from five local fishermen and a meat market were distributed by the Salvation Army in Aberdeen, Hoquiam and Seattle. Many needy families were thus assured a Christmas dinner. The catch was about equally divided between the three cities, J. H. Adams, deputy state game warden of Seattle, and G. H. Bowen, state timber inspector, of Cosmopolis, being in charge. The Salvation Army in Aberdeen and Hoquiam gave away about seventy-five baskets. The five fishermen were fined $25 and costs each in Justice W. M. Baumert's court Friday afternoon for taking salmon out of season. Five nets and two rowboats were also confiscated.
“Many needy families were thus assured a Christmas dinner.”
Grays Harbor's salmon runs once supported both a commercial fishery and a game warden's docket; today the same waters are managed under treaty rights and endangered-run protections. The confiscated catch going to the poor is a small reminder that enforcement and charity have long been tangled here.
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