Table V-U- Summary of Costs for Salmon Viscera and Eggs 



Price Per Pound 

 F.O.B. Steamship 

 Dock, 

 Petersburg, Alaska 



Viscera 

 (in bags) 



Cents 

 3-06 



Snipping Cost, Per Pound, 

 FrcHn Petersburg, Alaska, 

 to Seattle, Wash. 



Price Per Pound 

 F.O.B. Steamship 



Dock, 

 Seattle, Wash 



.y 



Cents 



2.1^ 



Cents 

 5.21 



Eggs (in 

 30-lb. 

 berry tins] 



3.90 



1.85 



7-7 ^ 



1/ Capital investments and depreciation costs not included, since they 

 would ordinarily be pro-rated lor the entire season over a period of 

 years. Also, the costs will vary with the location of the cannery, 

 rates for labor, type of construction, and environmental conditions. 

 For this particular operation the cost of miscellajieouis supplies and 

 construction required for the entire collection amounted to $413 •19* 

 This amount, undoubtedly, will represent an average investment that 

 might be expected for a three-line salmon-cannery operation. 



The 65-pound bd.g3 of xinfrozen. 

 salmon viscera were subjected to 

 extremely rough handling without 

 rupturing the polyethylene lin- 

 ers or otherwise damaging the 

 bags. Unfrozen bags of viscera 

 were loaded into a dump truck 

 for transportation from the can- 

 nery to the freezer. Upon arriv- 

 al at the freezer, they were 

 dumped onto the floor, during 

 which process some bags fell 6 

 feet or more onto the concrete 

 floor or onto other bags. This 

 rough treatment did not necessi- 

 tate the reoagging of a single 

 container. 



The bags were still in excel- 

 lent condition after they were 

 handled in the usual manner, at 

 the cold-storage plant and after 

 tftey were unloaded at Belli ngham 

 or Seattle, Washington. No dif- 

 ficulty was experienced in bags 

 sticking to freezing plates or 

 to each other. 



Figure V-8. The sacks of viscera are 

 lying on the freezer plates (left) 

 where they are normally frozen 

 solid in 24 hours; the cans contain- 

 ing the eggs were frozen while 

 stacked on the floor. 



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