FISHERIES OP ALASKA IN 1907. 



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in the total value of pack. Sockeye, or red, salmon occupies first 

 place in the output, slightly over half of this coming from western 

 Alaska. Humpbacks are second in quantity and value. Quite a 

 little attention was paid tliis year to the packing of humpback salmon 

 in flat cans, the fish cutting out better in this size of can than in the 

 "tails." A few hundred cases of dog salmon were packed in flat 

 cans; })artly because of the scarcity of tall cans late in the season, 

 and the consequent necessity of using the flat cans or not packing 

 at all. Of the total pack given below the following were lost in the 

 various disasters mentioned elsewhere in this report: Dog, or chum, 

 8,279 cases; humpback, or pink, 4,000 cases; king, or spring, 3,713 

 cases; and sockeye, or red, 57,855 cases. These have been included 

 in the statistical tables, as they had passed through all the stages 

 of packing and were eventually paid for by the insurance companies. 



Table Showing, bv Species and Sizes op Cans, the Output of Salmon prom 



THE Canneries in 1907. « 



« All pound cases contain 48 one-pound cans; the half-pound cases contain 48 half-pound cans. 



Comparison of pack of 1905, 1906, and 1907.— Oi the three years 

 in question the pack of 1906 exceeds the other two in quantity, but 

 in total value the pack of 1907 is in the lead. The increase in the 

 pack of humpbacks is very noticeable; in 1905 there were packed of 



