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was not completed until after the close of the fishing season. The 
floating plant La Merced, of the Alaska Southern Packing Co., oper- 
ated at Uyak Bay, Kodiak Island, during part of the season, but most 
of its pack was prepared in the Bristol Bay district, operations being 
carried on at Ships Anchorage in Kvichak Bay. 
NEW CANNERIES 
Aside from the replacement of certain canneries by new establish- 
ments, as mentioned above, there was only one new salmon cannery in 
Alaska during the season. This was a floating plant operated by 
Lars Sagen on a small scow at Crescent River, Tuxedna Harbor. 
Scotty’s Packing Co., at Mummy Island, which had previously en- 
gaged in the packing of clams and crabs, added canned salmon to its 
production this season and is included for the first time in the list of 
salmon canneries. 
The Salt Sea Fisheries put up a small pack of salmon, as well as 
crab meat, at its hand cannery at Tenakee, but this is not included 
in the list of salmon canneries. 
CANNERIES NOT OPERATED 
Largely as a result of prolonged labor negotiations in the spring, 
which resulted in undue delay in preparation for the season’s activities, 
several canneries did not open, and the total number operated was the 
smallest for any year since 1933. 
Of the canneries in southeast Alaska that were operated in the 
previous year, the following stood idle in 1938: Berg Packing Co., 
Ketchikan; Deep Sea Salmon Co., Skowl Arm; Hood Bay Canning 
Co., Hood Bay; Hydaburg Fisheries, Inc., Hydaburg; New England 
Fish Co., Chatham; Pyramid Packing Co., Inc., Sitka; and Red 
Salmon Packers Association, Yakutat. The plant of the Kayler- 
Otness Co., which was burned down in the fall of 1937, was rebuilt 
but did not pack salmon in 1938, its operations being confined to 
crabs and shrimp. The Pacific American Fisheries, Inc., used its 
plant at Kasaan solely for canning clams that were obtained from the 
beaches at Massett, B.C. . 
In central Alaska, plants that were closed for the 1938 season were 
the King Cove cannery of the Pacific American Fisheries, Inc., the com- 
pany’s catch in this region being put up by P. E. Harris & Co. at False 
Pass under a joint operating agreement; the Shepard Point cannery 
of Shepard Point Packing Co.; the Phillips Canning Corporation at 
Valdez; the Zachar Bay cannery of Shelikof Packing Co., which had 
been leased to the Kadiak Fisheries Co. in 1937; and the Shearwater 
Bay plant of Kadiak Fisheries Co., all canning operations of this 
concern being carried on at its new plant at Port Bailey, which 
replaces the company’s plant at Kodiak. The Kodiak cannery has 
been discontinued, and all the machinery has been removed. The 
cannery of A. N. Nilson at Portlock was destroyed by fire during the 
winter of 1937-38 and was not rebuilt. He 
The Nushagak and Ugashik plants of the Alaska Packers Association 
and the Wood River plant of Alaska Salmon Co. were engaged only in 
the production of pickled salmon in 1938. Other canneries in the 
western district that had operated in the previous year but were 
closed in 1938 were the Nushagak and Port Moller plants of Pacific 
