Raise Pass sockeye catch was very poor, and abundance was off at Port Mailer also. 

 Previously stable Cook Inlet produced half its normal pack of sockeyes for the first time 

 in many years. Sockeye runs elsevrfiere in the Territory were about average at recent- year 

 levels. 



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The king and coho fisheries were not distinguished by unusual features except that 

 kings appeared early in Cook Inlet and so largely escaped the Jujie effort, and cohos were 

 unusually fine in quality and size throughout the season in Southeastern but were in 

 scant supply in streams of the Gulf of Alaska, including the Copper River. 



There is some consolation in the 

 fact that escapements of all species, 

 with few exceptions, were much better 

 in both size and distribution than the 

 small catches would indicate — this 

 despite scant precipitation and low 

 stream flows that approached drought 

 conditions in scane districts. Given 

 favorable natural survival, the progeny 

 of the 1957 escapements should be ade- 

 quate in most cases to support substan- 

 tial fisheries in the years of their 

 return. 



TOTAL EMPLOYMENT 



1925 '30 '35 '40 '45 '50 



Figure 3. --Employment in the 

 Alaska salmon fishery 



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The number of fishermen and types 

 of gear used in the 1957 fishery are 

 shown in figure 3 and table 1. 



SOUTHEAS'EERN ALASKA 



The pink salmon pack of '*05,000 cases (fig. h) reflects the general failure of this 

 species. Although Southeastern produced 150,000 cases more than this in 1955> the current 

 pack does exceed the low pack of pinks in 1953 by 50,000 cases. Twenty-three plants 

 operated this year, some of wliich represented consolidations of two or more ccanpanies. 



There were two outstanding features of the 1957 piricrun: (l) The outer section of 

 the South Prince of Wales Island district experienced an unusually heavy offshore fishery. 

 Of the eight million pink salmon taken in all of Southeastern Alaska, outer South Prince 



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Figure 4. --Pink salmon pack Southeastern Alaska 



