FISHERY INDUSTRIES. 

 Investment in the Alaska Halibut Fisheries in 1917. 



45 



Items. 



Fishing vessels: 



Steamer and gas. 



Tonnage 



Sailing 



Tonnage 



Launches 



Outfit 



Num- 

 ber. 



136 

 2,536 



1 

 2,247 



3 



Value. 



$954, 090 



153,000 



2,892 

 750,000 



Items. 



Dories and scows 



Fishing apparatus 



Shore and fixed property. 



Total. 



Num- 

 ber. 



299 



Value. 



S18,800 

 57,105 

 265, 100 



2,200,987 



Persons Engaged in the Alaska Halibut Fisheries in 1917. 



Products of the Alaska Halibut Fishery in 1917. 



The following additional statistics of the Pacific hahbut industry 

 were submitted by E. J. Brown, local agent of the Bureau at Seattle, 

 who, in January, 1918, visited the important halibut fishing centers 

 of Alaska and British Columbia : 



Halibut Landings at Principal Ports of the North Pacific, 1912 to 1917. 



