ALASKA FISHERY AND FUR-SEAL INDUSTRIES 159 
MISCELLANEOUS FISHERY PRODUCTS 
As in the previous year, 2 white fishermen in central Alaska caught 
Dolly Varden trout for commercial purposes, and in southeast Alaska 
there was an output of this species and of steelheads, for the most 
part incidental to salmon-canning operations. The entire commercial 
production of trout, however, was small. The total products reported 
were as follows: Dolly Vardens, 30,011 pounds fresh, valued at 
$2,604, and 22,295 pounds frozen, valued at $1,746; steelheads, 2,471 
pounds frozen, valued at $214, and 8 cases canned, 48 1-pound cans 
to the case, valued at $40. 
Several other species of mimor importance commercially are taken 
in limited quantities, principally in connection with the halibut fishery, 
and are landed in ports of Alaska and British Columbia and at Seattle. 
Such products landed in Alaska in 1939 were as follows: Sablefish, 
1,461,627 pounds frozen, valued at $55,820; 164,801 pounds pickled, 
valued at $7,656; 73,033 pounds of livers, valued at $31,142; and 
13,870 pounds of viscera, valued at $971; rockfish, 32,239 pounds 
frozen, valued at $757; and 37,574 pounds of quick-frozen fillets, 
valued at $6,763; flounders, 8,400 pounds frozen, valued at. $504; 
and 21,923 pounds of quick-frozen fillets, valued at $3,936; ‘“ingcod,”’ 
337 pounds fresh, valued at $3; and 753 pounds of livers, valued 
at $301. 
FUR-SEAL INDUSTRY 
PRIBILOF ISLANDS 
GENERAL ADMINISTRATIVE WoRK 
In 1939 there were taken on the Pribilof Island 60,473 fur-seal skins, 
of which 47,646 were from St. Paul Island and 12,827 from St. George 
Island. This was the largest take since 1889. Of these skins, 45,506 
on St. Paul Island and 100 on St. George Island were taken by strip- 
ping and were blubbered before salting; the remainder were taken by 
the skinning process. 
The season’s take of sealskins was shipped to St. Louis, Mo., for 
processing and sale at public auction by the Fouke Fur Co. for the 
account of the Government under provisions of the contract of June 
9, 1939. The share due Canada, as well as that due Japan, will be 
apportioned from the net proceeds of sale, the former Government 
having suspended the previous arrangement for taking delivery of 
the skins in kind, owing to the outbreak of war in Europe. 
The byproducts plant on St. Paul Island was again operated, and 
the output of meal and oil showed a substantial increase over that of 
the previous year. Sales of meal and oil that were surplus to the 
needs of the Bureau brought a gross return of $15,567.43. 
Attention was given to the feeding and management of foxes on the 
islands, and the take of fox pelts in the 1939-40 season numbered 
1,246 blue and 12 white pelts, a total of 1,258. 
Sealing and foxing operations were carried on by Pribilof natives 
under the direction of the Bureau’s staff. Approximately 80 addi- 
tional natives from the mainland and Aleutian Islands were employed 
during the summer to assist with fur-seal activities. 
The substation which was established on Amchitka Island in 1937 
for sea-otter investigations and patrol, and which had been in oper 
