270 U.S. BUEEAU OF FISHERIES 



All properties of the Northwestern Fisheries Co. in Alaska were 

 leased by the Pacific American Fisheries, with option to purchase. 

 The latter utilized some of the gear during the season, but none of 

 the canneries was operated. 



Joint operating arrangements, without any change of business 

 organization, were again carried on by a number of canning com- 

 panies to reduce the cost of production. The Standard Packing Co., 

 which had been formed for the joint operation of the Pioneer Sea 

 Foods Co. and the Shepard Point Packing Co. in 1932, was discon- 

 tinued, and the latter companies resumed separate operations. 



The cannery of the Columbia Kiver Packers Association at Chig- 

 nik was operated under lease by the Alaska Packers Association, as 

 it had been in 1932, the latter's own plant remaining idle during the 

 season. A new organization, the Glacier Sea Foods Co., leased and 

 operated the cannery of the Glacier Packing Co. at Cordova. The 

 cannery of A. N. Nilsen at Portlock and the San Juan Fishing & 

 Packing Co.'s plant at Uganik Bay, which were idle in the previous 

 year, were reopened and operated in 1933. 



The Kustatan Packing Co. at Kustatan, which had devoted its 

 operations cliiefly to the production of canned clams in 1932, again 

 engaged primarily in the canning of salmon. The Pioneer Packing 

 Co., now known as the Pioneer Canneries, Inc., terminated its lease 

 on the Hemrich Packing Co.'s cannery at Kukak Bay, and the plant 

 was closed. 



As its new shore cannery at Sand Point was ready for operation 

 this year, the Alaska Pacific Salmon Corporation did not lease the 

 floating plant International^ as in the two previous seasons, and the 

 operation of the latter was carried on by the International Packing 

 Co. Toward the close of 1933 the International Packing Co. acquired 

 the plant at Uzinki formerly operated by the Katmai Packing Co., 

 which has been idle since 1930. 



The floating plant Santa Flavia^ of the Associated Fishermen of 

 Alaska, Inc., was leased to the Lowe Trading Co. and operated near 

 the mouth of the Nushagak River. The Red Salmon Canning Co. 

 reopened its plant on the Ugashik River, which had been closed 

 since 1929. Operations of the Herendeen Bay Consolidated Can- 

 neries were carried on aboard the floating cannery Mazanna., of the 

 Everett Packing Co., which had not been used as a cannery since 

 1930. 



NEW CANNERIES 



Three new canneries, in the central district, are included in the 

 list of canneries operated in Alaska in 1933. These are the plants 

 of A. S. Day at Fort Liscum, the Enterprise Seafood Co. at Ninil- 

 chik, and the new shore cannery of the Alaska Pacific Salmon Cor- 

 poration at Sand Point. 



CANNERIES NOT OPERATED 



Eleven canneries that were operated in the previous year were 

 closed during the 1933 season, 1 of which was in southeastern, 9 in 

 central, and 1 in western Alaska. The plant of the Kenai River 

 Packing Co., at Kenai, and the plant formerly belonging to the 

 Hetta Packing Co., at Coppermount, which has been acquired by 



