ALASKA FISHERY AND FUR-SEAL INDUSTRIES IN 1931 



By Ward T. Bower, Chief, Division of Alaska Fisheries 



CONTENTS 



Introduction 2 



Visit of the Commissioner of Fisheries to 



Alaska 3 



Executive order restoring certain lands from 



Alaska salmon hatchery reservation 3 



Fishery Industries 3 



New fishery regulations 4 



Annette Island Fishery Reserve.- 21 



Stream improvement 21 



Stream marking 22 



Stream guards 22 



Vessel patrol... _ 22 



Aerial patrol 23 



Complaints and prosecutions 23 



Territorial fishery legislation 24 



Territorial license tax 25 



Bristol Bay district 26 



General report of season's operations 26 



Patrol 27 



Runs and escapement of salmon 27 



Destruction of predatory fishes 27 



Inspection of spawning areas 28 



Wood River district 28 



Iliamna and Lake Clark district 28 



Aerial survey 30 



General summary 31 



Kuskokwim River 32 



Yukon River _. 32 



Weirs for counting salmon escapement 33 



Anan Creek 33 



Calder Creek 34 



Eagle Creek 34 



Klawak Creek 34 



Nutkwa Creek 35 



Olive Cove 35 



Staney Creek _. 35 



Whale Passage 36 



Situk River 36 



Eshamv River 36 



Olsen Bav 36 



Karluk River 37 



Alitak Bay 37 



Chignik River 38 



Ayakulik or Red River 38 



Uganik River 39 



Kaflia Bay 39 



English Bay 39 



Chinik Creek 39 



Kalgin Island stream 40 



Orzenoi River 40 



Morzhovoi Bay 40 



Bear River 40 



Naknek River 41 



Ugashik River 41 



Salmon life-history studies 41 



Observations on the escapement of salmisn. 42 



Hatcheries 44 



Extent of operations 44 



Afognak 44 



McDonald Lake 45 



Hugh Sm ith Lake (Quadra) 45 



Hatchery rebates 45 



General stat istics of the fisheries 45 



Salmon 48 



Catch and apparatus 48 



Canning 50 



Changes in canneries _ 50 



Xew canneries 50 



Canneries not operated 50 



Total canneries operated 51 



' Appendix I to the Report of the U. S. Commissioner of Fisheries for 1932. 

 May 11, 1932. 



Fishery Industries— Continued. 

 Salmon — Continued. 

 Canning — Continued. 



Losses and disasters 



Statistics 



Pack in certain districts.. 



Mild curing 



Pickling 



Fresh salmon 



Freezing 



Filleting 



Dry-salted, dried, smoked, and other mis- 

 cellaneous salmon products 



By-products 



Herring 



Statistical summary 



Halibut 



Statistical summary 



Cod - 



Whales 



Clams 



Shrimp 



Crabs 



Japanese vessels in Bering Sea 



Trout 



Miscellaneous fishery products 



Fur-Seal Industry 



Pribilof Islands 



General administrative work 



Transportation of supplies 



Power vessel "Penguin"... 



Roads 



Buildings 



Natives 



Census 



Medical services 



Schools 



Savings accounts 



Payments for taking fur-seal skins 



Payments for taking fox skins 



Fur seals 



Quotas for killing and reserving 



Killings 



Age classes 



Reserving operations 



Computation of fur-seal herd 



Foxes 



Trapping season of 1931-32 



Reindeer 



Fur-seal skins 



Shipments 



Sales 



Disposition of fur-seal skins taken at 



Pribilof Islands 



Shipment and sale of fox skins 



Sea-otter skins 



Fur-seal patrol 



United States Coast Guard 



Bureau of Fisheries 



Sealing privileges accorded aborigines. .... 

 Japanese sealskins delivered to the United 



States 



International Colonial Exposition at Paris. 

 Computation of Fur Seals, Pribilof 



Islands, 1931 



Bulls 



A verage harem 



Pups and cows 



Mortality of seals at sea... 



Complete computation 



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