THE nSHERIES OF ALASKA IN 1907. 



By Millard C. Marsh, 



Agent at the Salvion Fisheries of Alaska, 



and 



John N. Cobb, 



Assislani Agent. 



SUMMARIZED STATISTICS. 



As in the reports for 1905 and 1906, the District of Alaska is con- 

 sidered in the four geographic sections generally recognized, as fol- 

 lows: Southeast Alaska, embracing all that narrow strip of mainland, 

 and the numerous islands adjacent, from Portland Canal northwest- 

 ward to and including Yakutat Bay; central Alaska, the region on 

 the Pacific, or south side, from Yakutat Bay westward, including the 

 Aleutian chain; western Alaska, the shores of Bering Sea and islands 

 in this sea; and arctic Alaska, from Bering Strait to the Canadian 

 border. 



With the exception of arctic Alaska and a portion of western 

 Alaska, all of the fishing locaHties were visited by one or the other of 

 the agents. Statistics of the yield of fur seals from the Pribilof Islands 

 were obtained through the courtesy of the agent at the Fur Seal 

 Islands, while figures for the other aquatic furs (except the coast fur 

 seals and sea otter) and skins, also the whalebone, walrus ivory, 

 heads, teeth, and hides, were obtained from the custom-house records 

 at Juneau. 



By far the greater part of the fishery products of Alaska are mar- 

 keted outside the district, but a steadily increasing local demand is 

 developing, although it absorbs as yet but an insignificant part of the 

 whole. Salmon, cod, and halibut have been and are yet the prin- 

 cipal elements in the yield, but more and more attention is being paid 

 each year to the other fishery resources, although many of these are 

 still totally neglected. 



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