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Persons Engaged in the Alaska Cod Fishery in 1917. 



Products of Alaska Cod Fishery in 1917. 



HERRING FISHERY. 



By reason of the lessened importation of pickled herring from 

 abroad, consequent upon the extraordinary demand for such 

 products in other countries, American consumers could not be sup- 

 plied to the full extent of their demands. In order to stimulate 

 production, and to enable the packers to prepare a commodity accept- 

 able to the general trade and thus in a measure offset the shortage 

 of imported herring, the Government secured the services of Aug. 

 H. D. Klie, a recognized expert in the preparation of herring by the 

 Scotch cure. Early in May, 1917, he was sent to Alaska, which was 

 regarded as the most promising field for exploitation and develop- 

 ment, and was authorized to make such demonstration of the Scotch 

 method and giA'e such instruction to designated assistants as would 

 enable them to aid and encourage herring packers in southeast and 

 central Alaska, where oj^erations were chiefly carried on. 



Directions in printed form were mailed early in the season to all 

 companies and individuals who were known to be interested in any 

 phase of the Alaskan fisheries, and their cooperation was requested 

 m making a determined effort to utilize a much neglected food fish, 

 thus increasing food supplies and lightening the drain on other meat 

 supplies so urgently needed abroad in the commissariat of the army 

 of this and allied countries. 



As special assistants to Mr. Klie, William P. Studdert, Clarence 

 L. Anderson, and Donald R. Crawford were sent to Alaska, and 



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