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CANNING 



CHANGES IN CANNERIES 



Few changes were made in the ownership and operation of Alaska 

 salmon canneries in 1931 as compared with such transactions in other 

 recent years. There was, however, considerable consolidation of 

 effort in the interest of economy, and several of the canneries that 

 remained closed during the season had their catches of fish packed at 

 other plants. 



New organizations were formed by independent trap owners of 

 Ketchikan under the names of the United Salmon Packers (Inc.) 

 and the Ketchikan Packing Co. to lease and operate the Skowl Arm 

 plant of the Straits Packing Co. and the Sunrise cannery of the Stuart 

 Corporation, respectively. In connection with the latter there was 

 an option to purchase, and ownership of the plant was transferred 

 toward the close of the year. The floating plant Pioneer, which the 

 Stuart Corporation sold to the Far North Fisheries (Inc.) in 1927, 

 was repossessed by the former company in 1929. The vessel had been 

 moved to Hydaburg, where it was raised on the beach and operated 

 as a shore cannery for several years, but in 1931 it was refloated and 

 moored to a dock at Ketchikan. 



The floating cannery International, belonging to the International 

 Packing Co., was operated at Sand Point under contract by a new 

 concern, Unga Fisheries Co., a subsidiary of the Alaska Pacific Salmon 

 Corporation. A pack of canned salmon was put up by the Associa- 

 ted Fishermen of Alaska in the Bristol Bay region aboard the Santa 

 Flavia, which had formerly been operated under the name of the 

 Alaska Fishermen's Cooperative Packing Co. Each of these float- 

 ing canneries had been used in both central and western Alaska in 

 1930, but in 1931 their activities were confined to one district — the 

 International operating in central Alaska, and the Santa Flavia in the 

 western district. 



Two plants in the Bristol Bay area that had been idle in 1930 — 

 the (X) plant of the Alaska Packers Association at Kvichak Bay and 

 the Libbyville plant of Libby, McNeill & Libby — were reopened and 

 operated by their respective owners. 



NEW CANNERIES 



Only one new cannery, that of Albert and Josie Sandvik at Uganik, 

 is included in the list of plants operated. This is a hand cannery 

 which began operations in 1929, but was not listed as a cannery in 

 that and the following year, as it had only a small output. 



CANNERIES NOT OPERATED 



Thirty-six canneries that had been operated in the previous year 

 were closed in 1931. Of this number, 17 were in southeast Alaska, 

 16 in central, and 3 in western Alaska. The floating plant operated 

 at Port Heiden by the Anvil Sea Food Corporation in 1930 was used 

 in Puget Sound waters in 1931 . The steamer Mazama, of the Everett 

 Packing Co., was not operated as a floating cannery in 1931 but was 

 used as a supply ship for the Herendeen Bay Consolidated Canneries. 

 There have been dropped from the list of inactive canneries the 

 Heceta Island plant of the Nakat Packing Corporation, which has 



