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SOITHEASTKKN ALASKA 



Yakutat and Dry Bail. — Yakutat Bay to aud including Dry Bay. 



Icn Strait-Lynn Canal. — West coast of Baranof and Cbichagoof Islaud.s, the 

 shores of Cross Sound, Icy Strait, Lynn Canal, and Stephens Passage, south 

 to Taku Harbor. 



Chatham Stt ait-Frederick Sound. — Both shores of Chatham Strait and its 

 bays from Point Augusta to Cape Ommauey, and through Frederick Sound 

 and its bays northward to Taku Harbor, including Kake. 



Sumner' Stralt-Dixon Entrance. — Southward from Petersburg and eastward 

 from Port Beauclerc to Cape Chacon and Dixon Entrance, and including all 

 canneries on the mainland and intervening islands from the Stikine River to 

 Portland Canal. 



West coast, Prince of Wales Island. — Territory^ west and south of a line 

 from Cape Chacon to Point Baker and Cape Ommaney. 



Pack of canned salmon in Alaska in 1933. by districts ^ 



• Pack reduced to the basis of forty-eight 1-pound cans per case. 



MILD CURING 



The quantity of mild-cured salmon produced in Alaska in 1933 

 was somewhat less than in the previous year, but prices were de- 

 cidedly better, and the total value of the product showed a marked 

 increase. An important influence in the price situation was the wide- 

 spread trollers' strike along the Pacific coast, which continued 

 through May and June. 



Only a partial enumeration of the trolling boats in southeastern 

 Alaska was made by the Bureau, as the patrol force that carries on 

 this work in connection with other duties was greatly curtailed by 

 lack of funds. Therefore the more complete figures for 1932 have 

 been used, as reports indicate that there were as many trollers en- 

 gaged in 1933 as in the previous year. Sixteen plants were engaged 

 in the industry, and the number of persons employed was 1,175. 



The total output of mild-cured salmon was 3,923,200 pounds, valued 

 at $622,828, a decrease of 511.200 pounds in quantity but an increase 

 of $161,324 in value, as compared with the production for 1932. 



