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Products of Alaska salmon-pickling industry in 1939 






Southeast Alaska Central Alaska Western Alaska Total 
Products SS SSS 
Pounds Value Pounds Value Pounds Value Pounds Value 
Coho, or silver__--_--- 17, 300 $1, 213 86, 500 $6, 949 3, 100 $327 106, 900 $8, 489 
Chum, or keta____--- 2, 800 LQG 3a sere cee | |e a | aS Eee, | et = Se 2, 800 196 
Kane or springs a. ee PS ee 1, 600 235 8, 900 774 10, 500 1, 009 
Red, or sockeye - - --- 2, 900 360 155, 300 19, 139 44, 000 4, 928 202, 200 24, 427 
Motel. 25 = 23, 000 1, 769 243, 400 26, 323 56, 000 6, 029 322, 400 34, 121 






FRESH SALMON 
Operations in the fresh-salmon business were on about the same 
scale as in the previous year and were carried on chiefly in connection 
with other branches of the fisheries. Except for a smail output inci- 
dental to trout operations at Seward, in the central district, the 
entire production was from southeast Alaska. Four dealers whose 
principal output was fresh salmon gave employment to 14 white 
shoresmen and 5 transporters. 
The total products amounted to 3,912,918 pounds, valued at 
$284,133, as compared with 3,817,042 pounds valued at $291,335 in 
1938—an increase of about 3 percent in quantity, but a decrease of 2 
percent in value. 
The foregoing figures do not include fresh salmon sold to halibut 
boats for bait, but they do include fish exported to canneries in 
British Columbia. ‘ 
Products of Alaska fresh-salmon industry in 1939 






Species Pounds Value Species Pounds Value 
oho; or silver... ----- =e 1, 527, 438 $80, 590 || Red, or sockeye___-_______- 610, 323 $33, 997 
Chum; onketal = 222222262 —- 8, 749 317 SS 
Pink, or humpback-________- 500 10 Total? 2-4-4 ae 3, 912, 918 284, 133 
Kane orispring) 2-2 see 1, 765, 908 169, 219 
FREEZING 
The freezing of salmon in Alaska is largely incidental to mild cur- 
ing and other branches of the fisheries. One hundred and three white 
shoresmen, not elsewhere recorded, were identified with this industry. 
An outstanding feature of the industry in 1939 was the quick-freezing 
of a substantial quantity of salmon steaks and fillets by the Alaska 
Pacific Salmon Co. at Ketchikan and Sand Point. At the former 
plant, the production consisted of coho salmon and a small quantity 
of kings, while at the latter pink salmon were frozen. 
The total output of frozen salmon in 1939 was 4,352,714 pounds, 
valued at $340,133, as compared with 7,185,046 pounds valued at 
$530,951 in 1938—a decrease of 39 percent in quantity and about 36 
percent in value. The foregoing products for 1939 include 308,761 
pounds of frozen steaks and fillets, valued at $36,914. Except for 
186,626 pounds of pink salmon steaks and fillets from Sand Point, in 
central Alaska, the entire production of frozen salmon was from the 
southeastern district. 
Frozen salmon used as bait in the halibut fishery or as animal 
feed on fur farms are not included in the above figures but are shown 
under miscellaneous salmon products. 

