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U.S. BUREAU OF FISHERIES 



Persons engaged, wages paid, and operating units, Alaska salmon mild-curing 



industry, 1932 



Products of Alaska salmon mild-curing industry in 1932 



1 312 tierces. 

 « 22 tierces. 



3 334 tierces. 

 * 4,990 tierces. 



4 219 tierces. 

 « 5,209 tierces. 



PICKLING 



A sharp decline in the output of pickled salmon in Alaska in 1932 

 may be attributed to the fact that large stocks were carried over from 

 the preceding year and that low prices prevailed throughout the 

 season. Of the commercial producion, somewhat more than one half 

 came from the western district, where a number of the canneries 

 put up salt salmon in addition to their canned product. Two opera- 

 tors — F. Kruse on the Dorothea, which was used chiefly in the 

 herring fisheiy, and F. D. Harris on the Lottie Bennett — engaged 

 in the pickling of salmon at the mouth of the Kuskokwim River, 

 where the total output amounted to 175 barrels, chiefly of chums 

 and red salmon. 



Eighty-nine persons were engaged in the industry, a decrease of 54 

 from the number employed in 1931. The total output was 305.410 

 pounds, valued at $20,629, as compared with 1,141,200 pounds, valued 

 at $103,508, in 1931 — a decrease of about 73 percent in quantity and 

 80 percent in value. 



