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Pack of canned salmon in Alaska in 1934, ^V districts ' 



District 



Bristol Bay 



Port Moller and Herendeen Bay.. 



Ikatan-Shumagin Islands 



Chignik 



Kodiak-Afognak Islands 



Cook Inlet.- 



Prince William Sound 



Copper and Bering Rivers 



Yakutat and Dry Bay 



Icy Strait-Lynn Canal 



Chatham Strait-Frederick Sound-. 



Sumner Strait-Dixon P>ntrance 



West coast, Prince of Wales Island. 



Total... 



Coho 



Cases 

 1,219 



25,418 

 2,476 

 9,151 

 25, 665 

 13, 661 



30, 316 

 20, 291 



27, 627 

 46, 493 

 33, 800 



236, 117 



Chum 



311 

 97, 572 

 185, 613 

 82, 038 

 28, 678 



740, 641 



Pink 



158 

 4,788 

 340, 032 

 442, 709 

 , 278, 619 

 556, 214 



3, 824, 193 



King 



Cases 



8, 580 



217 



4,639 



157 



344 



19, 148 



715 



3,469 



4,633 



3,216 



912 



850 



5,983 



Red 



1, 726, 769 



87, 379 



173, 136 



122, 326 



151, 924 



154, 697 



14, 549 



92, 838 



19, 407 



32, 035 



9,237 



35, 409 



8,310 



52,863 2,628,016 7,481,830 



Total 



Cases 



1, 770, 749 



88, 570 



698, 621 



166, 782 



655, 691 



256, 837 



453, 022 



96, 465 



59, 455 



493, 146 



666, 098 



1, 443, 409 



632, 985 



Percent- 

 age in- 

 crease 



over 1933 



9.09 

 211.44 

 59.34 

 90.83 

 31.55 

 82.33 

 82.56 

 32.67 

 63.87 

 14.21 

 32.37 

 83.51 

 91.77 



43.18 



1 Pack reduced to the basis of forty-eight 1-pound cans per case. 



MILD CURING 



Operations in the salmon mild-curing business in Alaska were con- 

 siderably affected by the longshoremen's strike on the Pacific coast 

 and by disagreements over prices between the trollers and packers. 

 Because of the delay in receiving shipments of tierces and salt, no 

 mild curing was undertaken at the mouth of the Kuskokwim River 

 during the season, and the salteries on the Yukon were forced to 

 close down by June 29. The industry in southeast Alaska also was 

 hindered by this disruption of shipping, and although a settlement 

 with respect to Alaska shipments was reached early in June, opera- 

 tions were not resumed because the trollers were dissatisfied with 

 prices offered. 



The trollers' strike continued during June and July and was finally 

 settled through an arrangement whereby many of the trollers formed 

 a cooperative marketing association, which contracted for the sale 

 of salmon to the Alaska Coast Fisheries, a subsidiary of the Atlantic 

 & Pacific Packing Co. Under this agreement the fishermen received 

 an advance payment at a specified rate upon delivery of the fish, and 

 .a further payment from the proceeds of sale after deduction of han- 

 dling charges. The motor ship Donna Lane, which had been engaged 

 in the herring fishery in the previous year, was used by the cooperative 

 association for splitting and freezing purposes. When fishing was 

 resumed on August 6 the fish were of excellent quality and brought 

 good prices. Large catches were made for about 2 weeks, after which 

 the run decreased. 



Eighteen plants in southeast Alaska and four in the western district 

 were engaged in the industry. The reports of these companies, to- 

 gether with the census of the trolling fleet by the Bureau, show a 

 total of 1,281 persons employed. 



The total output of mild-cured salmon was 3,532,800 pounds, valued 

 at $616,111, a decrease of 390,400 pounds in quantity and $6,717 ir 

 ■value, as compared with the production in 1933. 



