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in this region, where all the reduction plants operated also produced 

 Scotch-cured fish. The output of by-products in the southeastern 

 district decreased from 19,502,823 pounds of meal and 2,943,915 

 gallons of oil in 1930 to 14,000,270 pounds of meal and 1,910,242 

 gallons of oil in 1931. Production of Scotch-cured herring in this 

 district increased from 1,382,895 pounds in 1930 to 1,759,475 pounds 

 in 1931. 



In Central Alaska there was a slight decrease in the production of 

 Scotch-cured herring, the pack amounting to 2,960,350 pounds, as 

 compared with 3,01 1,375 pounds in 1930. The output of by-products 

 m this district decreased very sharply from 3,908,200 pounds of meal 

 and 601,507 gallons of oil in 1930 to 1,822,700 pounds of meal and 

 242,464 gallons of oil in 1931. This curtailment in the output of by- 

 products was due to the reluctance of operators to manufacture meal 

 and oil at the prevailing low prices, rather than to scarcity of fish. 



The Scotch-cured pack of western Alaska fell somewhat below that 

 of 1930. In that year 3,686,975 pounds were produced, as compared 

 with 3,291,225 pounds in 1931. 



Twenty concerns handled herring in southeastern Alaska in 1931, a 

 decrease of eight from the number engaged in the previous year. Five 

 were cold-storage plants that froze herring for bait and eight engaged 

 only in the production of herring for bait. Listed below are the com- 

 panies that engaged in the curing and reduction of herring in this 

 district : 



Arentsen & Co Big Port Walter. 



Atlas Packing Corporation Deep Cove. 



Buchan & Heinen Packing Co Port Armstrong. 



Northwestern Herring Co Port Conclusion. 



Storfold & Grondahl Packing Co Washington Bay. 



In central Alaska 1 1 operators engaged in pickling herring, the bulk 

 of the pack again being prepared in the Kodiak and Prince William 

 Soimd areas. Two concerns — one in Izhut Bay and the other in Falls 

 Bay — produced bait herring only. The more important operators in 

 the district were as follows: 



Salteries : 



Apex Fish Co Kodiak. 



Albert Coel Shuyak Harbor. 



Kalgin Packing Co. (floating plant) Prince William Sound and Kodiak, 



North American Fisheries (floating 



plant) Sitkalidak Strait. 



Utopian Fisheries (Inc.) (floating 



plant) Port Hobron. 



Saltery and reduction plants: 



Chatham Strait Fish Co Crab Bay. 



Johnson Fisheries Co Thumb Bay. 



Port Benny Packing Co Port Benny. 



Of the following operators in the western Alaska district all but two 

 were engaged in the fishery in the Aleutian Islands area and all pro- 

 duced pickled herring, chiefly Scotch cured: 



Austnes & Rod Unalaska. 



Campbell & Dougal Dutch Harbor. 



Jordan Columbus Do. 



Conrad Packing Co Golo vin Bay. 



Golovin Bay Packing Co Do. 



Hovland & Boe Dutch Harbor. 



Ed. Jacobsen & Co Do. 



Hans Johnson (floating plant) Do. 



