282 



U.S. BUREAU OF FISHERIES 



The foregoing figures are exclusive of the fresh salmon sold to 

 halibut boats for bait, which is shown under miscellaneous salmon 

 products. 



FREEZING 



Operations in the salmon freezing business in 1933 were carried 

 on only in southeastern Alaska and were largely incidental to other 

 lines of the fishery industry. One cold-storage plant whose chief 

 output was frozen salmon gave employment to 20 white shoresmen. 

 The total output of frozen salmon was 4,236,252 pounds, valued at 

 $221,382, a decrease of 31 percent in quantity and 2 percent in value 

 from the previous year, when 6,116,921 pounds valued at $226,204 

 were prepared. 



Products of the frozen-salmon industry in 1933 



DRY-SALTED, DRIED, AND OTHER MISCELLANEOUS SALMON PRODUCTS 



A small quantity of canned smoked salmon was again prepared 

 in southeast and central Alaska, and some dried salmon also was 

 produced in the latter district, where employment was given to five 

 white fishermen. Operators in these districts reported the sale of a 

 limited number of salmon to halibut boats for bait. A small out- 

 put of dry-salted salmon and dried salmon was produced in the 

 Bristol Bay area in connection with salmon-pickling operations. 



In the fishery of the Yukon, Tanana, and Kuskokwim Rivers, 

 which is carried on chiefly by natives, 1,348,000 pounds of chum 

 salmon were dried, valued at $53,840, and 528 pounds of kings were 

 smoked and canned, valued at $75. In this region 12 whites and 600 

 natives engaged in the fishery, and the apparatus used consisted of 

 278 wheels, 622 gill nets of 8,763 fathoms, and 50 rowboats and 

 skiffs. 



BYPRODUCTS 



Salmon byproducts were prepared by one plant in southeast 

 Alaska, which employed 15 white shoresmen, and by 1 salmon can- 

 nery in the central district in connection with its canning opera- 

 tions. The total production was 913,358 pounds of fertilizer, valued 

 at $14,679, and 35,700 gallons of oil, valued at $5,748, as compared 

 with 847,285 pounds of fertilizer, valued at $11,060, and 39,821 gal- 

 lons of oil, valued at $5,770, in 1932 — an increase of about 8 percent 

 in the amount of fertilizer and a decrease of 10 percent in the output 

 of oil. 



