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Co., respectively. A number of small floating plants also were oper- 

 ated in various localities. 



In southeast Alaska 18 concerns handled herring in 1932, a de- 

 crease of 2 from the number engaged in the previous year. Of these, 

 4 were cold-storage plants handling frozen herring for bait and 8 

 operated pounds to provide fresh bait herring to the halibut fleet. 

 Five concerns engaged in the saltery and reduction business, as 

 follows : 



Arentsen & Co Big Port Walter. 



Buchan & Heinen Packing Co Port Armstrong. 



Nortliwesteru Herring Co Port Conclusion. 



Port Walter Herring & Packing Co Saginaw Bay. 



Storfold & Grondahl Packing Co Washington Bay. 



Thirteen concerns engaged in the herring fishery in central Alaska 

 in 1932. The operations of 1 company were incidental to clam 

 canning, 1 firm handled only herring for bait, 2 produced pickled 

 herring and by-products, and 9 engaged only in saltery operations. 

 The more important operators in the district were as follows : 



Salteries : 



Apex Fish Co Kodiak. 



David Buvick Shuyak Strait. 



Johnson Fisheries Co Port Williams. 



Kodiak Herring Co. (floating plant) Kodiak-Afognak district. 



Ness Fish Co. (floating plant) Malina Bay. 



Oceanic Fisheries, Inc. (floating plant) Kodiak-Afognak district. 



Charles W. Pajoman Raspberry Island. 



San Marco Fish Co. (floating plant) Amee Bay. 



Charles L. E. Svendsen Shuyak Island. 



Saltery and reduction plants: 



Chatham Strait Fish Co Crab Bay. 



Port Benny Packing Co Evans Bay. 



The chief operators in the western district were the following, all 

 of whom prepared Scotch-cured herring : 



Austnes & Rod Unalaska. 



Campbell & Dougal Dutch Harbor. 



Jordan Columbus Do. 



Andrew Conrad Golovin Bay. 



Golovin Bay Packing Co Do. 



Ed Jacobsen & Co Dutch Harbor. 



F. Kruse (floating plant) Do. 



Northwestern Herring Co Akutan. 



Ohif Olsen Dutch Harbor. 



Biological studies of the Alaska herring were continued by Dr. 

 George A. Rounsefell and two assistants in southeast Alaska. 



STATISTICAL SUMMARY 



Eight hundred and nineteen persons engaged in the Alaska her- 

 ring industry in 1932, as compared with 730 in 1931. The number 

 of i)lants decreased from 29 to 27. Products of the fishery were 

 valued at $1,173,158. a decrease of $54,738, or approximately 4 per- 

 cent, from 1931, when the total value was $1,227,890. Scotch-cured 

 herring increased from 8,011,050 pounds in 1931 to 12,793,225, or 

 about GO percent. Herring for bait decreased from 7,607,797 pounds 

 to 0,486,815 pounds, or about 15 percent; meal increased about 21 



