FISHERY INDUSTEIES. 

 Barrels « of Salmon Pickled in 1917, by Species. 



41 



Product. 



Southeast 

 Alaska. 



Central Alaska. 



Western 

 Alaska. 



Total. 



Coho, or silver 



Coho bellies 



Chum, or keta 



Chum beUies 



Humpback, or pink 

 Humpback bellies . . , 



King, or spring 



King bellies 



Red, or sockeye 



Red bellies 



No. 



1,387 



11 



959 



15 



5,453 



84 



1 



Total 7,960 



Value. 



$22,275 



326 



11,948 



300 



72, 724 



2,245 



15 



No. 

 185 



921 



512 

 42 

 80 

 24 

 62 

 7 

 2,368 

 22 



110,754 



3,302 



Value. 

 $3,230 



No. 

 226 



7,271 

 630 

 617 

 600 



1,157 



150 



45,489 



770 



251 

 16 

 43 

 2 



296 



24, 292 

 2 



59,914 25,128 



Value. 

 $4, 126 



2,680 

 432 

 516 

 40 



5,384 



406,609 

 42 



No. 



1,798 



11 



1,722 



73 



5, 576 



110 



359 



7 



26,710 



24 



419, 829 



36,390 



Value. 



$29,631 



326 



21,899 



1,362 



73,857 



2,885 



6,556 



150 



453,019 



812 



590, 497 



a Barrels holding 200 pounds of fish. 



SALMON FREEZING. 



All plants equipped for the freezing of salmon are located at the 

 more important fishina; centers in southeast Alaska, except one which 

 was built at Seward, in central Alaska, by the San Juan Fishing & 

 Packing Co. Those in southeast Alaska are owned and located as 

 follows: New England Fish Co. and Ketchikan Cold Storage Co., 

 at Ketchikan; Booth Fisheries Co., at Sitka; Columbia & Northern 

 Fishing & Packing Co., at Wrangell; Juneau Cold Storage Co., at 

 Juneau; Taku Canning & Cold Storage Co., at Taku Harbor; and the 

 Glacier Fish Co., at Petersburg and at Scow Bay, where the barge 

 Glory of the Seas was used as a cold-storage plant. 



The output of frozen salmon in 1917 was 1,282,182 pounds, valued 

 at -181,574. This is an increase in production of 418,776 pounds and 

 in value of $47,166 over the figures reported in 1916. 



One trap, valued at $2,500, and owned by the Juneau Cold Storage 

 Co., is credited to this branch of the industry. 



Salmon Frozen in Alaska in 1917. 



FRESH-SALMON TRADE. 



Customs records at Juneau show that 3,559,785 pounds of fresh 

 salmon were shipped from Alaska in 1917 and that the value of this 

 product was $304,048. This is an increase over the figures given 

 for 1916, when the production was 1,480,515 pounds of salmon, 

 valued at $118,316. The trade in fresh salmon fluctuates consider- 

 ably as the demand for salmon in the other industries may be great 

 or small. With the high prices paid for salmon at the canneries and 

 freezing plants, few operators found markets sufficiently attractive 



