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Inc., took over and operated the plant of the Puget & Alaska Canning 
Co. at Seldovia. 
The following canneries that had been idle in the previous year 
were reopened in 1939: Berg Packing Co., Ketchikan; Hood Bay 
Canning Co., Hood Bay; Pyramid Packing Co., Inc., Sitka; Kadiak 
Fisheries Co., Shearwater Bay; Pacific American Fisheries, Inc., 
King Cove; Alaska Packers Association, at Nushagak and Ugashik; 
Alaska Salmon Co., Wood River; and Pacific American Fisheries, 
Inc., at Nushagak and Port Moller. 
NEW CANNERIES 
The Salt Sea Fisheries, which put up a small pack of salmon at 
Tenakee Springs in 1938 in conjunction with the canning of crabs 
expanded its salmon canning operations in 1939 and is included for 
the first time in the list of salmon canneries. Similarly, the plant of 
the Alaskan Glacier Sea Food Co. at Bering River, established in 
1938 for the canning of crabs, was engaged chiefly in salmon canning 
this season and is listed as a salmon cannery. 
A new organization, the Intercoastal Packing Co., equipped the 
steamer Ogontz (8,127 tons net) with two high speed lines of salmon 
canning machinery and operated it both at Naknek and at Kupreanof 
Harbor during the 1939 season. Young & Trones operated a small 
hand cannery, consisting of a single half-pound line, aboard a scow 
on Eyak River. 
A new 4-line cannery at Naknek, the construction of which was 
begun in the fall‘of 1938 by the Thompson Salmon Co., a subsidiary 
of the Columbia River Packers Association, was completed and 
operated under lease by the latter company. 
In addition, there were small packs of salmon incidental to other 
fisheries products by the following companies which are not listed 
among the salmon canneries; Nickey Clam & Salmon Cannery, 
Ketchikan; Enterprise Sea Food Co., Ninilchik; King Crab Co., 
Kachemak Bay; Nunez Bros. Packing Corporation, Cordova; Sheep 
Bay Mill & Packing Co., Sheep Bay; and the Northern Commercial 
Co., Pastolik. 
CANNERIES NOT OPERATED 
The Scow Bay Packing Co. did not operate its plant at Scow Bay, 
and its trap-caught fish were canned by the Petersburg Canning Co. 
No salmon were packed by the Gulf Packing Co. at Cordova in 1939, 
the plant being used exclusively for the canning of crabs. The 
cannery of the Pioneer Sea Foods Co. at Orca was not operated, and 
the catch of the company’s traps was canned by the New England 
Fish Co. at Cordova under a joint operating agreement. Other 
plants that had canned salmon in Alaska in the previous year but 
were not operated in 1939 were the floating plant of Lars Sagen, on 
Crescent River; the Anchor Line Packing Co., Kenai River; and the 
Great Northern Packing Co., Inc., Uyak Bay. 
The old cannery of the Shelikof Packing Co. at Zachar Bay, which 
had been leased to the Kadiak Fisheries Co. in 1937 and which was 
idle in 1938, was purchased by the Chatham Strait Fish Co. and 
remodeled and used as a herring reduction plant. 
