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SOUTHEASTEUN ALASKA 



Yakutal and Dry Bay. — Extends from Yakutat Bay to and including? Dry Bay. 



Icy Strait-Lynn Canal. — West coast of Baranof and Chichagof Islands, the 

 shores of Cross Sound, Icy Strait, Lynn Canal, and Stephens Passage, south to 

 Taku Harbor. 



Chatham Strait-Frederick Sound. — Both shores of Chatham Strait and its bays 

 from Point Augusta to Cape Onimaney, and through Frederick Sound and its 

 bays northward to Taku Harbor, including Kake. 



Sumner Strait-Dixon Entrance. — Extends southward from Petersburg and 

 eastward from Port Beauclerc to Cape Chacon and Dixon Entrance and includes 

 all canneries on the mainland and intervening islands from the Stikine River to 

 Portland Canal. 



Wed coast, Prince of Wales Island. — Territory west and south of a line from 

 Cape Chacon to Point Baker and Cape Ommaney. 



Pack of canned salmon in Alaska in 1931, by di.'itricls ^ 



1 Pack reduced to the basis of forty-eight 1-pound cans per case. 



MILD CURING 



The output of mild-cured salmon in Alaska was the smallest for any 

 year since 1921, due primarily to unfavorable market conditions. 

 Beginning early in June the trollers suspended operations for several 

 weeks in an attempt to obtain higher prices. Their action failed in its 

 purpose. A few fishermen reaped a good harvest during the period, 

 and when the others resumed operations the early run of kings was 

 virtually over. 



Although there is shown a larger number of persons engaged in the 

 industry, as well as of boats and lines operated, this increase is 

 attributable to the more complete figures obtained in the enumeration 

 of the trolling fleet by the bureau's employees, rather than to a gain in 

 the extent of trolling operations. Eighteen plants were operated — 

 17 in southeastern and 1 in western Alaska, a net decrease of 2 plants 

 from the number reported for 1930. 



The total production of mild-cured salmon was 3,320,800 pounds 

 valued at $633,753, a decrease of 1,126,725 pounds in quantity and 

 $234,969 in value as compared with the output of 1930. The pack 

 consisted of 194,800 pounds of cohos and 3,126,000 pounds of kings, or 

 in units of 800-pound tierces, 243 tierces of cohos and 3,907 tierces of 

 kintrs. 



