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CANNING 

 CHANGES IN CANNEKIES 



Two canneries in southeast Alaska that had been closed in 1931 — 

 the Douglas Island Packing Co.'s plant at Douglas, and the Wrangell 

 Narrows Packing Co.'s plant at Scow Bay — were reopened and 

 operated under lease by the EUson Packing Co. and O. Nicholson, 

 respectively. Libby, McNeill & Libby leased the Kake cannery of 

 the Alaska Pacific Salmon Corporation and operated it in lieu of 

 its Taku Harbor plant, which was destroyed by fire. In the spring 

 the United Salmon Packers, Inc., bought the Skowl Arm plant, 

 which they had operated under lease in 1931, and changed the 

 corj)orate name to Skowl Arm Packing Co. 



As in the previous year, joint operations were carried on by a 

 number of plants for purposes of economy. With few exceptions 

 such arrangements involved no change in business organization. 

 The Standard Packing Co. was formed to carry on the joint opera- 

 tions of the Pioneer Sea Foods Co. and the Shepard Point Packing 

 Co., the canning being done at the latter's plant at Shepard Point. 



A new organization, the Strand-Jensen Fisheries, purchased and 

 operated the plant of the Cordova Packing Co., at Cordova. The 

 salmon and clam cannery at Kukak Bay, which had been leased for 

 several years by the Seashore Packing Co., was taken over and 

 operated by the Pioneer Packing Co. The Ikatan plant of the 

 Pacific American Fisheries was reopened. At the close of 1931 the 

 New England Fish Co. relinquished its lease on the Knight Island 

 cannery of the Prince Packing Co. The plant remained idle during 

 the year. H. C. Bennett purchased the cannery of the Toman Pack- 

 ing Co., at Anchorage, which has not been operated since 1930. 

 Operations of the floating cannery International at Sand Point 

 were carried on by the Alaska Pacific Salmon Corporation, instead 

 of under the name of Unga Fisheries Co. 



NEW CANNERIES 



One new cannery, built in July by Harry W. Crosby on the west 

 side of Chignik Lagoon, was in operation during part of the season. 

 A small pack was prepared by Bert Heglund at a hand plant on 

 Halibut Bay, but this plant has not been included in the list of 

 canneries. 



CANNERIES NOT OPERATED 



A considerable number of plants were not operated in 1932. In 

 addition to the Taku Harbor Plant of Libby, McNeill & Libby and 

 the West Coast Canning Co.'s plant at Tuxedna Bay, both of which 

 burned down before the salmon-canning season began, 31 plants 

 that had been oi^erated in the preceding year were closed in 1932. 

 The Kustatan Packing Co. resumed operations but was engaged 

 chiefly in canning clams and put up very little salmon ; therefore it 

 is not included in the list of salmon canneries. Much of the canning 

 machinery of the Karheen plant of Libby, McNeill & Libby has 

 been removed, and it is probable that the cannery will not be re- 

 opened. It has therefore been dropped from the list, as has the 

 floating plant Esther of the North Pacific Fisheries Co. Other idle 

 canneries are as follows: 



