ALASKA FISHERY AND FUR-SEAL INDUSTRIES 137 
Production of dry-salted, dried, and other miscellaneous salmon products in 
Alaska in 1938 



















Southeast Alaska | Central Alaska | Western Alaska Total 
Products | 
Pounds | Value | Pounds | Value | Pounds | Value | Pounds | Value 
Dry-salted: _ 
eae or silver-:-.__---_! 630 $51 18, 000 $500) |: 52 Se ee 18, 630 $551 
THES Os Bion e ee | eee So | ee eee ses ees 17,300 | $1,730 17, 300 ; 
Red, or sockeye___-_---- OrSTONMT OSL |LILLG AT) cE ty PO ; eS 9, 870 ? fat 
PROTA eee ee eae eee 10,500 | 1, 132 18, 000 500 17,360 | 1,730 45, 800 3, 362 
pee he iw ere ae 
din or iketal eset AU fete ty. 2. 1, 025 50 | 912,000 | 66,900 | 913,025 | 66,950 
Pink, or humpback...._.|...--.----|-------- 3, 000 Th ee Sa nies 3, 000 * 90 
ITIP SOLS DIMES Aenean oe eee | concen ote eons eae 44,000 | 2,200 44, 000 2, 200 
Hed orjsockeyo-= = 2) 3. ep eerie to) ota ey test 42,000 | 2,100 42, 000 2, 100 
retilt Sovirer Mild ina yf sositty 4,025| 140 | 998,000 | 71,200 |1, 002,025 | 71,340 






Frozen for bait: 
Coho, or silver__-2.-.---- 
Chum, or keta_..__-.--.- 
Pink, or humpback_-_--__- 
Red, or sockeye-_--___---- 

ety 3 ch 720, 652 7, 241 
Frozen for feed on fur farms: 
















Pink, or humpback-__-___ 6154207 ling 29500, Jee 2 tt BC ek Sl Be oe Pe Se 61, 420 2, 500 
Salmon eggs for fish food__-_--_ 7, 300 S6h ei aet.  Peaivt Fes Feee ty eieyaee se 7, 300 365 
Grand totalite: 23 799, 872 | 11, 238 22, 025 640 |1, 015, 300 | 72,930 |1, 837, 197 84, 808 
BYPRODUCTS 
Salmon meal and oil were prepared at a byproducts plant in south- 
east Alaska, and at a salmon cannery on Larsen Bay, in the central 
district, in connection with its canning operations. The average 
number of employees at the former plant was 24 white shoresmen, 
although approximately three times that number of persons were 
identified with the industry for varying periods, due to changes in the 
crews supplied through union hiring halls at different times during the 
season. 
The total production in 1938 was 2,074,000 pounds of fertilizer, 
valued at $31,413, and 67,988 gallons of oil, valued at $15,757, as 
compared with 1,972,000 pounds of fertilizer, valued at $29,151, and 
78,100 gallons of oil, valued at $23,956, in 1937—an increase of 5 
percent in the output of fertilizer, and a decrease of about 13 percent 
in the output of oil. 
HERRING 
As in the previous year, little attention was given to the production 
of Scotch-cured herring in Alaska in 1938, primarily because of un- 
favorable market conditions. No pickled herring whatever was 
reported for southeastern Alaska and the pack in the central district 
was somewhat curtailed, while in the western district there was a 
considerable increase, with the result that the total output of Scotch- 
cured herring in the Territory was slightly larger than that for 1937. 
Of this output, 552,150 pounds, or 25 percent, came from the western 
district, while Prince William Sound produced 784,500 pounds and the 
Kodiak area 849,500 pounds, or 36 percent and 39 percent of the total, 
respectively. 
