284 U.S. BUKEAU OF FISHERIES 



In the Aleutian Islands area large schools of herring appeared 

 early in June, and the first commercial catches were made July 3, a 

 week earlier than in the previous year. The first fish were of better 

 quality than the later run, which is unusual. 



In southeast Alaska 19 concerns handled herring in 1933, as com- 

 pared with 18 in the previous year. Of these, 5 were cold-storage 

 plants handling frozen herring for bait, and 7 operated pounds to 

 provide fresh bait herring to the halibut fleet. Six concerns en- 

 gaged in the saltery and reduction business as follows : 



Ai-entsen & Co Big Port Walter. 



Bucban & Heinen Packing Co Port Armstrong. 



Chatham Strait Fish Co New Port Walter. 



Northwestern Herring Co Port Conclusion. 



Port Herbert Packing Co., Inc Port Herbert. 



Storfold & Grondahl Packing Co Washington Bay. 



Sixteen concerns engaged in the herring fishery in central Alaska, 

 all of whom prepared pickled herring, while 3 also produced meal 

 and oil, and 1 a fair quantity of bait herring. The more important 

 operators in the district were as follows: 



Salteries : 



Alaska Fisheries Co. (floating) Kodiak. 



Apex Fish Co Iron Creek. 



Blue Island Packing Co Blue Fox Bay. 



Buchan & Heinen Packing Co Kodiak. 



David Buvick Sliuyak Strait. 



Jacobson Bros Iron Creek and Prince William 



Sound. 



Johnson Fisheries Co Thumb Bay and Port Williams. 



Oceanic Fisheries, Inc. (floating) Kodiak Island and Prince Wil- 

 liam Sound. 



San Marco Fish Co. (floating) Kodiak Island. 



Sword & Hofstad (floating) Do. 



United Alaska Herring Co. (floating) Do. 



Saltery and reduction plants: 



Chatham Strait Fish Co Crab Bay. 



Evans Bay Packing Co Port Benny. 



Siberian Msh & Cold Storage Co Port Ashton. 



The chief operators in the western district were the following, all 

 of whom produced Scotch-cured or Norwegian-cured herring: 



Austnes & Rod Unalaska. 



Campbell & Dougal Dutch Harbor. 



Ed Jacobsen & Co Do. 



Northwestern Herring Co Do. 



Olsen & Kangas Do. 



Peterson & Jorgensen Do. 



Polar Packing Co Unalaska. 



John A. Rockas Dutch Harbor. 



Biological studies of the Alaska herring were continued by Dr. 

 George A. Rounsefell, assisted by Edwin H. Dahlgren, in southeast 

 Alaska. 



STATISTICAL SUMMARY 



Nine hundred and eighty-eight persons engaged in the herring 

 industry in 1933, as compared with 819 in 1932. The number of 

 plants increased from 27 to 31. Products of the fishery were valued 



