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XT. S. BUREAU OF FISHERIES 



Production of dry-salted, dried, and other miscellaneous salmon -products in Alaska 



in 1934 



BYPRODUCTS 



Two reduction plants in southeast Alaska prepared salmon by- 

 products, giving employment to 17 white shoresmen and 7 wddte 

 transporters. One of these plants, that of the Salmoil Corporation at 

 Mud Bay, was destroyed by fire in July. In central Alaska the manu- 

 facture of meal and oil was again carried on by a salmon cannery at 

 Karluk in conjunction with its canning operations. The total pro- 

 duction was 1,015,560 pounds of fertilizer, valued at $15,233, and 

 33,720 gallons of oil, valued at $13,701, as compared with 913,358 

 pounds of fertilizer, valued at $14,679, and 35,700 gallons of oil, 

 valued at $5,748, in 1933 — an increase of 11 percent in the amount of 

 fertilizer and a decrease of about 6 percent in the output of oil. 



HERRING 



Although abundant runs of herring appeared on most of the im- 

 portant fishing grounds of Alaska in 1934, many of the fish were not 

 of suitable size for curing. As a result, there was a sharp decline in 

 the output of Scotch-cured herring, while the production of meal and 

 oil was the largest in the history of the industry. The increase in the 

 latter products was particularly marked in the Prince William Sound 

 region. 



The Kodiak Island area failed to maintain the position it had held 

 for 2 years as the chief producing center for Scotch-cured herring, and 

 instead dropped to the lowest place, not counting the Cook Inlet area, 

 where the output was negligible. It was said that salteries in the 

 Kodiak region foimd a much heavier w^aste in packing than in previous 

 years, because a large percentage of the herring w^ere too small for 



