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ProdtKtion of dried, .smoked, and other niisccllaiieous .sdlnion products in 



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BYPRODUCTS 



One plant in southeast Alaska prepared salmon byproducts, giv- 

 ing employment to 12 white shoresmen, and two salmon canneries in 

 central Alaska manufactured salmon oil and fertilizer as an adjunct 

 to their canning operations. The total production was 847,285 

 pounds of fertilizer, valued at $11,060, and 39,821 gallons of oil, 

 valued at $5,770; as compared with 1,585,288 pounds of fertilizer, 

 valued at $29,094, and 54,980 gallons of oil, valued at $12,312, in 

 1931 — a decrease of about 47 percent in the amount of fertilizer and 

 28 percent in the quantity of oil. 



HEERING 



An outstanding feature of the herring fishery of Alaska in 1932 

 was the abundance of fish in the Kodiak area, which yielded by far 

 the largest output of Scotch-cured herring of any Alaska district. 

 The Prince AV^illiam Sound area likewise increased its production 

 over the preceding year, showing a substantial gain in the output 

 both of pickled herring and of meal and oil, although but two plants 

 were in operation during the season. In southeast Alaska the out- 

 put was somewhat larger than in 1931, but there was a sharp de- 

 crease in western Alaska, where the herring were less plentiful and 

 of smaller size than in former years. The herring industry, like 

 other branches of the fislieries, was affected by the prevailing low 

 prices, and notwithstanding the gain in volume of production, the 

 total value of the products was considerably lower than in 1931. 



The floating plant Donna Lane, formerly owned by the Utopian 

 Fisheries, Inc., and the RosamoTid, which had belonged to the North 

 American Fisheries, were operated in the Kodiak-Afognak district 

 by new companies, the Oceanic Fisheries, Inc., and San Marco Fish 



