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We Catch Too Many

We Catch Too Many

Why do they catch so many fish? I don't know why! We can't put them in cans as fast as they catch them. We only pack 300 maybe 400 cases per day - that's all we can do! So that's why today I was on the beach with a pitchfork and 30 other Chinamen. We weren't canning salmon - we were throwing them back in the water underneath the cannery. I don't understand it at all.

Gulf of Georgia Cannery Society, 1998.006.002-08