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CATCH AND APPARATUS 



The total number of seines used in the salmon industry in 1934 was 

 ,■633, of which 493 were purse seines and 140 beach seines. The purse 

 seines atrgreirated 76,445 fathoms of webbing, and the beach seines 

 13,678 fathoms. The number of gill nets used was 3,664, having a 

 total length of 234,456 fathoms. There were 162 driven and 297 

 floating traps — a total of 459. 



Southeastern iVlaska was accredited with 346 seines, or a total of 

 57,690 fathoms, an increase of 22 seines and 5,415 fathoms of webbing 

 over the number used in 1933; also with 304 gill nets, aggregating 

 21,015 fathoms, an increase of 39 nets, but a decrease of 3,610 fathoms 

 of webbing; and with 2-S driven and 262 floating traps, an increase of 9 

 driven and 20 floating traps, as compared with the number operated 

 in 1933. 



Corresponding figures for central Alaska show 281 seines, or 30,753 

 fathoms, as compared with 158 seines, or 15,632 fathoms, in 1933; 984 

 gill nets, or 52,815 fathoms, as compared with 956 gifl nets, or 44,410 

 fathoms, in 1933; and 134 driven and 35 floating traps, as compared 

 with 119 driven and 19 floating traps in 1933. 



In western Alaska, 6 seines, or 1,680 fathoms of webbing, were used, 

 a decrease of 3 seines, but an increase of 140 fathoms of webbing, as 

 compared with the figures for 1933. There were 2,376 gill nets used, 

 or an aggregate of 160,026 fathoms, an increase of 315 nets and 6,001 

 fathoms of webbing. No traps were operated in this district. 



Seines caught 25 percent of the salmon taken in 1934, gill nets 22 

 percent, and traps 52 percent, while lines and wheels took the remain- 

 ing 1 percent. 



Percentage of salmon caught in each Alaska district, by principal forms of apparatus 



The total catch of salmon in 1934 was 116,649,072, an increase of 

 '34,772,652, or 42 percent, over the number taken in 1933. The 

 SQutheastern and central districts showed gains of 24,679,002 and 

 ■11,526,995, respectively, while there was a decrease of 1,433,345 in 

 western Alaska. By species, the catch of cohos increased 750,565; 

 ^churns, 234,056; pinks, 33,265,900; and reds, 571,217; while the catch 

 of kings decreased 49,086. 



