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valued at $9,645; 127,651 pounds of pickled cod, valued at $6,905; and 
5,800 pounds of stockfish, valued at $741—a total of 305,809 pounds, 
valued at $17,291, as compared with 288,541 pounds valued at $16,181 
in 1938. 
Three sailing vessels comprised the Bering Sea fleet, the products 
of which are not included with the Alaska fisheries output because the 
vessels operate from and land their fares in ports of the Pacific Coast 
States. Of these vessels, the Sophie Christenson (570 tons) was oper- 
ated by the Pacific Coast Codfish Co., and the Azalea (363 tons) and 
the Wawona (413 tons) were operated by the Robinson Fisheries Co. 
Products of the offshore fishery were 3,062,000 pounds of dry-salted 
cod, valued at $125,000, and 15,300 pounds of tongues, valued at 
$1,530—a total of 3,077,300 pounds, valued at $126,530, as compared 
with 3,079,775 pounds, valued at $130,912, in 1938. The offshore 
fishery employed 106 persons, or 2 more than in the previous year. 
WHALES 
The Akutan station of the American Pacific Whaling Co. was the 
only whaling plant operated in Alaska in 1939. This plant employed 
109 persons, of whom 95 were whites and 14 were natives. Three 
steam whalers were operated, or 2 less than the number used in the 
preceding year, and 171 whales were taken, consisting of 91 finback, 
26 humpback, 5 sulphur bottom, and 49 sperm whales. 
No changes were made during 1939 in the regulations governing 
operations in the whaling industry in Alaska. An officer of the Coast 
Guard was on duty at the Akutan station during the season to enforce 
the provisions of the Whaling Treaty Act and the regulations issued 
thereunder. Statistical and biological data were collected by the 
Bureau for forwarding through the State Department to the Inter- 
national Bureau for Whaling Statistics, Oslo, Norway. 
Whale products in 1939 amounted to 246,600 gallons of body oil, 
valued at $85,915; 132,750 gallons of sperm oil, valued at $33,188; 321 
tons of meal from meat, valued at $12,469; 180 tons of bone meal, 
valued at $4,959; and 8,200 pounds of sperm jawbone, valued at $410— 
a total value of $136,941, as compared with $179,641 in 1938. 
CLAMS 
Operations in the clam-canning industry were on about the same 
scale as in other recent years and were carried on primarily in the 
vicinity of Cordova, which produced nearly 99 percent of the season’s 
total output of clams in Alaska. 
The clam fishery regulations for 1939 permitted an increased take of 
clams in the Prince William Sound-Copper River region, the limitation 
on the catch for the first half year being placed at 1,600,000 pounds 
of razor clams, including shells, instead of 1,200,000 pounds as in the 
previous year. In order to prevent depletion and to assure that this 
increase might be effected only through extension of digging operations 
to outlying beaches, it was provided that in the section bounded on 
the west by Strawberry Point Channel, on the north by a line from 
the southern extremity of Mummy Island to Wireless Point, and on 
the east by a line from Government Rock to the west end of First 
Egg Island, the commercial taking of razor clams would be prohibited 
