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$1,000 landed by Canadian vessels. In 1938 the landings of the Alaska 
fleet were 13,556,355 pounds, valued at $890,301, and landings in 
Alaska amounted to 8,296,907 pounds, valued at $499,472. Fares 
of the Alaska fleet in 1939, therefore, decreased about 1 percent in 
quantity but increased about one-half of 1 percent in value from 1938. 
The landings in Alaska ports in 1939 decreased about 16 percent in 
quantity and 17 percent in value from the preceding year. 
The amount of halibut livers landed by the Alaska fleet was not 
reported, but it was stated that there were altogether about 878,000 
pounds of halibut, sablefish, ‘“lingcod,” rockfish, and soupfin-shark 
livers, valued at about $407,000, landed at Alaska and Pacific coast 
ports during 1939 by American vessels, as compared with 866,000 
pounds, valued at $405,000, landed by American vessels in 1938. 
The estimated amount of halibut livers landed in Alaska was 109,800 
pounds, valued at $54,900. 
Halibut and sablefish viscera landed by the American fleet amounted 
to 149,000 pounds, valued at about $15,000. The amount of halibut 
viscera reported as landed in Alaska was 1,116 pounds, valued at $78. 
These statistics were compiled from data collected by the Interna- 
tional Fisheries Commission and by agents of the Bureau. 
Persons engaged, wages paid, and operating units, Alaska halibut industry, 1939 







Item Total Item Total 
PERSONS ENGAGED OPERATING UNITS 
Hishermens sWrhites®. = 265-42 2-9 ee 642 || Vessels: 
——— POWer OWE 0 bONSe 2 = == eae ees 118 
Shoresmen: Net:tomnmage! th. fre eee eed ae 1,718 
Win tes 4 fear nt As a 62 Tiaunches sesh: Jip ere See et ere 32 
INALIVES eee ee eee Se SER ee Gi ASkatestonrlines erste ee ae eee 3, 100 
FOCAL Es aera a = oe et 68 
Granditotal:. 62-35 =.=. ees See 710 
Wages paid shoresmen__-.--_-__-___--___- $17, 907. 




Products of the Alaska halibut fishery in 1939 






Products Pounds Value 
Fresh'(Gncluding local) 2/2 # | oe Bre ORR AE AE eR aes She eee nee ae eee 7, 082,658 | $513, 611 
Mrozens sete sere) lea ol Se AAA Cee nS Ae 6, 344, 678 375, 191 
Filletsiiquick frozen’. < + 20 2 ae eee ape eR Ga eS eee 27, 135 4, 884 
Diversity Ps 1tipey) Die AO Pere yy erie Tit Soles 109, 800 54, 900 
VASCODE 2c Sec Pn, PE ARN a a ee re ple CD 1, 116 78 
PTR ted RG oe A a es eee EO ee 13, 565, 387 948, 664 



1 The amount landed by the Alaska fleet was not segregated; the quantity shown herein is the estimated 
amount landed in Alaska. 
COD 
Cod fishing from shore stations in Alaska was carried on chiefly, as 
for a number of years past, by various independent fishermen in the 
Shumagin, Sanak, and Aleutian Islands, partly in connection with 
salmon and herring pickling. Twenty-four whites and 20 natives 
were engaged in the industry, including men aboard the power schooner 
Dorothea, which was leased for one trip to the westward during the 
season. Products amounted to 172,358 pounds of dry-salted cod, 
