. California fish and game. Fisheries -- California; Game and game-birds -- California; Fishes -- California; Animal Population Groups; Pêches; Gibier; Poissons. 102 CALIFORNIA FISH AND GAME. come to the wholesale liousc—amounted to $24.()0(),()()() a year. Asia aud Europe eaeh i)ay about a si mi la i- amoiuit. "In America a greater number of muskrat skins are obtained tlian of any other fur-bearer, except the i-abbit, several million skins going to the market yearly. Of other American animals we might mention the skunk, about one and a half million skins of which are sold yearly ; the op
. California fish and game. Fisheries -- California; Game and game-birds -- California; Fishes -- California; Animal Population Groups; Pêches; Gibier; Poissons. 102 CALIFORNIA FISH AND GAME. come to the wholesale liousc—amounted to $24.()0(),()()() a year. Asia aud Europe eaeh i)ay about a si mi la i- amoiuit. "In America a greater number of muskrat skins are obtained tlian of any other fur-bearer, except the i-abbit, several million skins going to the market yearly. Of other American animals we might mention the skunk, about one and a half million skins of which are sold yearly ; the opossum, about a million; the mink, about six liiiinlicd thousand; the raccoon, six hundred thousand; otter, about two Jiuiidred tliousaiid; marten, one hundr-ed and twenty thousand; lynx, ninety lliousatid; beaver, eighty thousand, and fisher, ten ; It can be estimated from figures given by Ernest Thompson Seton in his "Life Histories of Northern Animals" that the revenue to North America for Ihc last scNcnlx-five A-eai's. fi-otii Ihe sale of the. Via. 27.—A trapper's valuable calc-li of furs in the Sierras. This was the catch at one location only. Photograph by Geo. Williamson, Jr. skins of the commoner fur-bearing mammals, has been $222,735,000, and to the United States $113,950,000. This means that there has been an average annual income to North America of about three million dollars and to the United States of $1,500,000. The average annual fur jiro- duction of North America in recent years is estimated at $24,00l),0()0. The sale of skunk skins, alone, brings in an income to tlie trappers of the United States of about $3,000,000 annually. According to a St. Louis fur imporler, approximately twenty-five million fur-l)earing mammals were caught in Noi'th America last season. These pelts had a cash value of about twenty million dollars. The total North American catch of last year (1914) has been approxi- mated as follows: :Muskrats. 15,000,000; opo
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