The Barbey Maritime Center for Research and Industry

The Barbey Maritime Center for Re- name "The Barbey Packing Compan/' search and Industry is named in honor

The Barbey Packing Company of the Barbey family, pioneers and lead - was an independent salmon packer. It ers in the salmon packing industry of owned no fishing boats and had none the Columbia River. under contract, purchasing its salmon

The history of the Barbey family's directly from independent fishermen. involvement in the salmon industry of This brought it into direct conflict wilh the Lower Columbia River began in the the commercial packing companies like fall of 1912 when Henry Barbey, owner the Columbia River Packers Association of the Barbey Fish Company of Portland and the Union Fishermens Cooperative leased the Pillar Rock cannery from its Packing Company over gillnetting, purse owners Everding & Farrell. Immedi- seining, fish traps, and horse seining ately successful, Henry Barbey branched grounds at the mouth of the Columbia out with fish buying stations at Ilwaco, River. Chinook, and Hammond, selling fresh

The Barbey Packing Company and canned salmon throughout the continued to grow during the 1920s, country and exporting to Europe. In expanding its operation to include cold 1918 the Barbey Fish Company leased storage and packing facilities in Astothe Hill Terminals located in Flavel, now ria, a canning and fish receiving station Hammond, Oregon, from the Spokane, in Rainier, Oregon, and a fish wheel Portland, and Seattle Railroad, builders on Rabbit Island, just down river from of the Astoria Railroad Depot that now Celilo Falls near The Dalles, Oregon. In bears the Barbey name. The Flavel Can- 1925, Henry outbid the Columbia River nery began operating in 1919 under the Packers Association for valuable rights The