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Heritage Museum: The fishing industry (photo diary) [1]
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Date: 2025-02-03
Astoria, Oregon, situated at the mouth of the Columbia River within a few miles of the Pacific Ocean, began as a trading post known as Fort Astoria, named after John Jacob Astor, the New York financier who sent fur traders into the area. As the port area and the fishing industry grew in importance many wooden buildings were built over the water, supported by wooden pilings. With the decline of the Pacific salmon, the canneries (there were as many as 40 at one time) closed in 1974. The Heritage Museum in Astoria has displays about the area’s fishing industry.
According to the Museum:
“Fishing has always been one of Clatsop County’s largest industries. In 1893m seven canneries combined to become the Columbia River Packers Association under the leadership of A.B. Hammond.”
Shown above are net cleaner beads: small blue crystalline rocks made of copper sulfate. The rocks would be dissolved in water and the nets and equipment soaked in the mixture, killing any algae and bacteria.
Shown above are foghorns.
Shown above are glass floats.
Shown above is the Columbia River as seen from the Museum’s fishing gallery.
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