ALASKA FISHERY AND FUR-SEAL INDUSTRIES 155i 
the quotas were accordingly revised to permit an additional catch of 
100,000 barrels in each area. This limit was reached in the Kodiak 
area, and commercial fishing there, except by gill nets or for bait 
purposes, was closed at 6 o’clock postmeridian August 22. In the 
Prince William Sound area the rate of production declined toward the 
end of the season, and the catch amounted to about 422,000 barrels 
when commercial fishing other than for bait was prohibited at the 
close of September 25. 
There was evidence of severe depletion of herring in southeastern 
Alaska, and the regulations at the begmning of the year prohibited 
all commercial fishing for herring, except for bait purposes, in the 
vicinity of Cape Ommaney. Subsequent large catches of herring 
from the Cape Ommaney population in the Sitka region necessitated 
further drastic curtailment, and commercial fishing for herring other 
than for bait purposes was prohibited after August 2. The small 
production of herring in southeastern Alaska, therefore, was owing 
both to the depleted condition of the herring population and to the 
drastic restrictions applied there. 
Notwithstanding the curtailment in southeastern Alaska, the. pro- 
duction of herring meal and oil in the Territory as a whole was the 
second largest in the history of the industry, exceeded only by that 
of 1937. There were 15,737,769 pounds of meal and 2,220,979 gallons 
of oil produced in the Prince William Sound area, or 47 percent of the 
total output of each. The production in the Kodiak area amounted 
to 11,028,640 pounds of meal and 1,725,965 gallons of oil, or 33 per- 
cent and 36 percent of the total, respectively; while southeast Alaska 
produced the remaining 6,484,688 pounds of meal and 821,639 gallons 
of oil, representing 20 percent and 17 percent of these respective 
products. 
As in the previous year, a supply of frozen herring for bait was 
imported from Prince Rupert, owing to a shortage in the southeastern 
Alaska area during part of the season. 
Eighteen 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 herring. The 4 reduction plants which 
operated in the district were as follows: 
PRCCHIRCTO NGC Oe em wo see Se Pe ee te Big Port Walter. 
Atlas Packing: Corporation 2. -)-222 2422242 - Deep Cove. 
Buchansé)HeimenvPackinge Cor <cbe sess. 24K Port Armstrong. 
Storfold & Grondahl Packing Co___-_.--------- Washington Bay. 
Of the 12 plants in central Alaska which manufactured herring oil 
and meal, 5 packed Scotch-cured herring also, 1 packed Norwegian- 
cured herring, and 2 others produced some bloater stock. The 
principal herring operators in central Alaska were as follows: 
Saltery and reduction plants— 
JA(BeSs: LASSI (Chon be 5 tees Dis) Sees R 2 Se 1a ciate malas Sane Port Wakefield. 
Chathamrstrait) Bishe@o: seth 2 Peis re 2 Crab Bay. 
Wicd selamlachssbworet ays ete ated eet be Port Benny. 
Oceanie Fisheries Co:, Incs2 _ 22. 22222 2225— Port Oceanic and Port Vita. 
iBerfectionpaisherics: glim@s-2 = 5 ==) a ee Thumb Bay. 
San Juan Fishing & Packing Co____-----_- Port San Juan. 
Shepard Point Packing Co_____-.-_-_---- Port Ashton. 
Reduction plants— 
Chatham Straibchish. Co. == te =e oe Zachar Bay. 
GeOTl Ee HOLT, WC OMe teoe gee a ae Blue Fox Bay. 
Nortiwesberielerning Con Suess ene eee Drier Bay. 
POULMWeSsterne Lernine. Impeaa =e = = ee een ae Tron Creek. 
