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hand cannery at Nikishka. The Kenai River Packing Co. built and 

 operated a one-line cannery on the Kenai River, Cook Inlet. The 

 Grimes Packing Co. installed a one-line outfit on the dock of O. L. 

 Grimes at Uzinki, near Kodiak. 



CANNERIES NOT OPERATED 



The Tongass Packing Co., which built a new cannery at Nakat 

 Inlet in 1926, went into receivership, and the plant was not operated 

 during the 1927 season. The floating cannery of Libby, McNeill & 

 Libby at Ketchikan was wrecked by a storm in March and was not 

 replaced. 



Canneries in central Alaska closed during the year because of the 

 expectation of poor runs in certain areas were the Uyak plant of the 

 Northwestern Fisheries Co. and the Unakwik Inlet plant leased by 

 Pacific American Fisheries. The Hoonah Packing Co. did not operate 

 its plant on Bering River on account of the closure of that area to com- 

 mercial fishing. The Drier Bay cannery of the Prince Packing Co., 

 which for three years had been operated by Gorman & Co. and 

 which was leased to F. O. Burckhardt in 1927, was not operated. 

 The Kadiak Fisheries Co., whose plant at Shearwater Bay was 

 wrecked by a windstorm in the fall of 1926, did not rebuild for the 

 1927 season, nor was the Boswell Bay plant of the Strawberry Point 

 Packing Co. replaced. 



The cannery formerly operated by the Carlisle Packing Co. on 

 Kvichak River has been dropped from the list, as its operations were 

 consolidated with others of the Alaska Packers Association in that 

 vicinity at the time the sale was effected. Two canneries at Heren- 

 deen Bay, belonging to the Fidalgo Island Packing Co. and the Phoe- 

 nix Packing Co., and the Nelson Lagoon Packing Co.'s cannery at 

 Nelson Lagoon have also been dropped from the hst of idle plants, 

 there being little likelihood of their being reopened. 



The following canneries were closed during the 1927 season but 

 may be reopened: 



Southeastern Alaska: 



Alaska Herring and Sardine Co Port Walter. 



Alaska Sanitary Packing Co Cape Fanshaw. 



Hoonah Packing Co {gZbier Bay. 



Northwestern Fisheries Co {santfASa. 



Tongass Packing Co Nakat Inlet. 



Central Alaska: 



Prince Packing Co Drier Bay. 



Alaska Packers Association Kasilof . 



Hoonah Packing Co Bering River. 



Kodiak Island Fishing & Packing Co Seward. 



[Seldovia. 



Northwestern Fisheries Co { Orca. 



I Uyak. 



Pacific American Fisheries Unakwik Inlet. 



Western Alaska : Alaska Salmon Co Kvichak Bay. 



TOTAL CANNERIES OPERATED 



There were 135 canneries operated in Alaska in 1927—62 in south- 

 eastern, 44 in central, and 29 in western, which is one more in each 

 district than in 1926, a net gain of 3 plants. 



