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U.S. BUREAU OF FISHERIES 



FRESH SALMON 



The fresh-salmon business was largely incidental to the mild cur- 

 ing of salmon and was carried on only in southeast Alaska. Two 

 dealers, whose chief product was fresh salmon, gave employment to 

 6 white shoresmen. The output consisted of 1,091,359 pounds of 

 kings valued at $70,415 and 4,554 pounds of cohos valued at $159, 

 a total of 1,095,913 pounds valued at $70,574, against 768,619 pounds 

 valued at $55,918 in 1931^ — an increase of approximately 43 percent 

 in quantity and 26 percent in value. 



The foregoing figures do not include the fresh salmon sold t(^ hali- 

 but boats for bait, which is shown under miscellaneous salmon 

 products. 



FREEZING 



The production of frozen salmon was incidental to other fishery 

 activities in southeast Alaska, where 6 cold-storage plants are lo- 

 cated. Two companies whose chief output was frozen salmon gave 

 employment to 20 white shoresmen. No production of salmon fil- 

 lets was reported this season. The total output of frozen salmon 

 in 1932 was 6,116,921 pounds valued at $226,204, as compared with 

 6,182,917 pounds valued at $411,815 in 1931. 



Products of the frosni-saliiion indusiry in 1032 



DRIED, SMOKED, AND OTHER MISCELLANEOUS SALMON PRODUCTS 



A few cases of smoked salmon packed in oil were prepared in 

 southeast and central Alaska, and small quantities of kippered and 

 dried salmon were reported also from the latter district, all of which 

 production was incidental to other fishery operations. The sale of 

 salmon to halibut boats for bait was reported by a number of oper- 

 ators, chiefly in southeast Alaska. In the fishery of the Yukon, 

 Tanana, and Kuskokwim Rivers, which is carried on principally by 

 natives, 2,390,000 pounds of chum salmon were dried, valued at 

 $96,258, and 2,064 pounds of canned smoked salmon were prepared, 

 valued at $430. In this western district 11 whites and 670 natives 

 engaged in the fishery, and the apparatus used consisted of 281 

 wheels, 578 gill nets of 8,276 fathoms, and 50 rowboats and skiffs. 



