ALASKA FISHERY AND FUR-SEAL INDUSTRIES, 1927 



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Persons engaged, wages paid, and operating units, Alaska herrring industry, lOBl 



Continued 



Items 



OPERATING UNITS 



Vessels: 



Power, over 5 tons 



Net tonnage.. 



Launches 



Gill net boats 



Seine skiffs 



Other rowboats and skiffs... 



Lighters and scows 



Houseboats 



Pile drivers 



Apparatus; 



Purse seines 



Fathoms 



Beach seines 



Fathoms 



Gill nets 



Fathoms 



Pound seines 



Pounds 



Southeast 

 Alaska 



77 



,182 



7 



2 



53 



28 



21 



12, 210 



5 



325 



3 



75 



Central 

 jVlaska 



64 



1,271 



34 



48 



33 



46 



18 



2 



3 



41 



6,695 



4 



360 



378 



17,310 



16 



29 



Western 

 -Alaska 



45 

 675 



Total 



142 



3,458 



42 



57 



86 



74 



40 



2 



6 



109 



18, 905 



9 



685 



426 



18, 060 



16 



31 



Products of Alaska herring industry in 1927 



Items 



Fresh, for bait 



Frozen, for bait 



Pickled, for bait 



Pickled, for food: 



Scotch cure 



Norwegian cure- 

 Kippered 



Spiced. 



Dry-salted 



Meal 



Oil._ 



Total 39.446. 



Southeast Alaska 



Pounds 

 2, 801, 385 

 4, 612. 270 



3, 353. 000 



165, 925 



14, 630 



4,400 



13, 883, 590 

 114.611,088 



Value 

 $20, 734 

 54, 985 



284, 623 



11,533 



1,689 



570 



420, 671 



827, 183 



1, 621,( 



Central Alaska 



Pounds Value 

 336, 250 $3, 989 



292, 000 



11.050,390 1,149,279 

 19, coo! 1, 520 



15, 750 



590, 980 



2 648, 915 



100 

 17, 401 

 36, 651 



12, 953, 2851 1, 213. 210 



Western Alaska I 



Total 



Pounds Value 



139,000 $15,625 



Pounds 

 3, 137, 635 

 4, 612, 270 

 292, 000 



14, 542, 390 

 184, 925 



14, 630 

 4,400 



15, 750 

 14, 474, 570 

 15,260,003 



139,000 15.625 52,538,573 2,850,823 



Value 

 $24, 723 

 54, 985 

 4,270 



, 449, 527 



13, 053 



1,689 



570 



100 



438, 072 



863, 834 



1,948,145 gallons. 



2 86,522 gallons. 



HALIBUT 



3 2,034,667 gallons. 



Despite the handicap of severe storms early in the season and a 

 temporary shortage of bait toward the end of September and in the 

 first part of October,, production in the haUbiit industry w^as main- 

 tained at a high level in 1927 as a result of increased efforts and more 

 intensive fishing. Market conditions, however, were not particularly 

 favorable, and considerable quantities of frozen fish were on hand at 

 the end of the year. Operations on banks to the westward continued, 

 and while there was no marked development west of Kodiak Island, 

 a number of boats fished aroimd Trinity Islands and as far west as 

 the Semidi Islands, and some prospecting w^as done in the Shumagin 

 region, indicating that the fishery is tending to extend in that direction. 



A disturbing feature is the heavy increase in the catch of young 

 halibut, and further protective measures may be necessary, in addi- 

 tion to the present three months closed period from November 16 

 to February 15, for the adequate conservation of the fishery. 



Further scientific investigations were conducted by the Interna- 

 tional Fisheries Commission under the direction of Will F. Thompson. 

 Because of stormy weather early in the year the work was attended 

 with considerable hardship, culminating in the loss on February 23, 

 1927, of the chartered vessel Scandia in a wTeck oft" Kodiak Island. 



