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in connection with tlie manufacture of by-products. Of these, the 

 Alaska ConsoHdated Canneries, Kilhsnoo Fisheries, and Marine 

 I^acking & Reduction Co. had contracted with others for the handhng 

 oi that portion of tlieir catch that was suitable for curing, thus leaving 

 but two plants engaged exclusively in reduction operations. 



The output of Scotch-cured herring in southeastern Alaska in 1927 

 was 3,353,000 pounds, or more than double that of the preceding year, 

 when 1,576,050 pounds were prepared; while the production of by- 

 products was 13,883,590 pounds of meal and 1,948,145 gallons of oil, 

 as against 21,699,635 pounds of meal and 2,857,299 gallons of oil in 

 1926. 



Of the herring cured in central Alaska, 4,320,390 pounds were pre- 

 pared in Cook Inlet, 3,484,500 pounds in Prince Wilham Sound, and 

 3,245,500 pounds in the Kodiak-Afognak district. Prince William 

 Sound and the Kodiak-Afognak district showed a substantial increase 

 over the preceding year, when approximately 2,500^,000 pounds were 

 secured in each of these localities; while the Cook Inlet pack was 

 approximately half that of 1926, when about 9,000,000 pounds wer'> 

 produced. 



In southeastern Alaska 33 concerns handled herring. Among the 

 larger operators were the following: 



Reduction plants: 



Ocean Industries (S. S. Per alia) Floating plant. 



Puget Sound Reduction Co Do. 



Saltery: Ness Fish Co ■__ Petersburg. 



Saltery and reduction plants: 



Alaska Consolidated Canneries Saginaw Bay. 



Alaska Herring & Sardine Co Little Port Walter. 



Arentsen & Co Big Port Walter. 



Atlas Packing Corporation Deep Cove. 



Baranof Packing Co Red Bluff Bay. 



Buchan & Heinen Packing Co Port Armstrong. 



Chatham Strait Fish Co New Port Walter. 



Fidalgo Island Packing Co Bay of Pillars. 



Killisnoo Fisheries Killisnoo. 



S. S. Lake Miraflores Floating plant. 



Marine Packing & Reduction Co Washington Baj'. 



Northwestern Herring Co Port Conclusion. 



Ocean Products Co. (formerly National 



Fish Co.) Hood Bay. 



Storfold & Grondahl Packing Co Washington Bay. 



United States- Alaska Packing Co. (for- Port Herbert and Warm 



merly Warm Springs Bay Packing Co.) Springs Bay. 



Included in the above list are the three companies that engaged 

 only in the reduction business but at whose plants Scotch-cured 

 herring was prepared by separate individuals or companies. W. E. 

 Bawden carried on such operations at the plant of the Marine Pack- 

 ing & Reduction Co., Davis & Weer (Inc.) at the plant of the Killisnoo 

 Fisheries, and the Nassau Fish Co. at the plant of the Alaska Con- 

 solidated Canneries. 



Six cold-storage plants froze herring for bait and three outfits 

 were engaged solely in producing fresh herring for bait. 



In central Alaska operations were carried on mainly in three 

 localities, namely. Prince William Sound, with 10 operators; Cook 

 Inlet, with 40 operators; and the Kodiak-Afognak district, with 15 



