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Herring for bait showed a slight increase, although a shortage during 
the winter months made it necessary to import a supply of frozen 
herring from Prince Rupert. 
A sharp curtailment in the production of herring meal and oil in 
southeast Alaska was partly offset by increases in the Prince William 
Sound area, but the total output of these products was considerably 
less than that of the preceding year. There were 17,720,922 pounds 
of meal and 2,406,822 gallons of oil produced in the Prince William 
Sound area, or about 55 percent and 53 percent, respectively, of the 
entire output of meal and oil in Alaska. The Kodiak area accounted 
for 7,190,194 pounds of meal and 1,215,370 gallons of oil, or 22 percent 
and 27 percent of the total, respectively, while southeast Alaska pro- 
duced the remaining 7,279,394 pounds of meal and 900,921 gallons of 
oil, representing 23 percent and 20 percent of the total of these 
respective products. As in the preceding year, the figures indicate a 
relatively high oil content for the herring in the Kodiak area. 
It was reported that the herring in the Kodiak area in 1938 arrived 
later than in the previous year, but finally appeared in large quantities. 
Most of the fishing in that district was again carried on in the vicinity 
of Cape Ugat and Uyak Bay. 
Nineteen concerns handled herring in southeast Alaska, including 
6 cold-storage plants that froze herring for bait and 8 outfits engaged 
solely in the production of bait herrmg. Five reduction plants, or 
eae than in the preceding year, were operated in the district, as 
ollows: 
Arentsen .&. Cowes &: 202. eT ORGIES fad Big Port Walter. 
AtlassPacking, Comporation......2- Seen le = Deep Cove. 
Buchan & Heinen Packing Co___------------ Port Armstrong. 
Northwestern Herring Co___-___------------ Port Conclusion. 
Storfold & Grondahl Packing Co___--------- Washington Bay. 
In central Alaska nine plants manufactured herring oil and meal, a 
decrease of one from the number operated in the preceding year. 
Four of these plants also packed Scotch-cured herring and two pro- 
duced some bloater stock. In addition, a small quantity of the 
Scotch-cured product was prepared in connection with salmon pickling 
in the Kodiak area. W. J. Imlach succeeded the Evans Bay Packing 
Co. as operator of the plant at Port Benny. The principal herring 
operators in central Alaska were as follows: 
Saltery and reduction plants: 
Anex Mish Cowie dues deo ole 2 eee ee Port Wakefield. 
Chatham) Strait Pish Cos 322 eee Crab Bay. 
Oceanic Hisheries| Col ince ae ee) eee Port Oceanic and Port Vita. 
San Juan Fishing & Packing Co______------- Port San Juan. 
Reduction plants: 
Wo timlah _ Oa © OLE) OW. eee Port Benny, 
Perfection Fisheries, Inc_.._.......-.-------- Thumb Bay. 
Shepard Point Packing, @o_=-.224_22..2i4-2- Port Ashton, 
Southwestern Herring, Inc_...._-..--------- Tron Creek. 
Production of pickled herring was reported by four plants in 
western Alaska, one of which was engaged primarily in the cod 
