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chased the cannory of tlir Nortlioni Sea Food Co. at Petersburg; 

 Polar Star Packiiiii Co., Ltd., in Peril wStrait, al)oard a scow that had 

 forinorly ])oen used as a salmon c-aiiiiory by the i^iainond K Packing 

 Co.; and the Stikine Sea Food Co., primarily in the shrimp business, 

 at Wrangell. 



Five companies operating in the vicinity of Cordova were the 

 Alaska Icepak Corporation, which took over the plant previously 

 belonging to tlie Alaska Sea Products, Inc.; the Gulf Packing Co.; 

 the Xortliern Sea Food Co. ; the S. E. Smith Packing Co., whose opera- 

 tions were incidental to the canning of clams; and the Strand-Jensen 

 Fisheries Co., which put up crabs for the first tiime in conjunction with 

 its salmon-canning operations. 



Two hundred and eighty persons were engaged in the industry, of 

 whom 235 were whites, 39 natives, 5 Filipinos, and 1 Japanese. 

 Products consisted of 544,311 pounds canned (19,727 cases of J^-pound 

 cans, 1,066 cases of 1-pound cans, and 1,010 cases of 6}2-ouncc cans, 

 48 cans to the case), valued at $184,052; 71,902 pounds of cold-packed 

 meat, valued at $22,418; and 937 dozen crabs in the shell, valued at 

 $1,193. The total value of products in 1934 was $207,663, as com- 

 pared with $155,580 in 1933, an increase of 33 percent. 



JAPANESE VESSELS IN BERING SEA 



In 1934 there were 3 Japanese cannery vessels engaged in canning 

 crab meat in offshore waters of Bering Sea, as compared with 4 such 

 vessels in the previous year. The floating canneries reported in 

 Bering Sea were the Toten Maru (formerly the Nagato Maru), the 

 Kasada Maru, and the Taihoku Maru, each of which was accompanied 

 by the usual number of tenders. Two beam trawlers, the Kltami 

 Maru and Adzuchi Maru, of about 350 tons each, were operated in 

 connection with the cannery vessel Kasada Alaru. 



Fishing operations were chiefly in the vicinity of Ainak Island and 

 off the entrance to Port MoUer. Crab nets marked with buoys and 

 flags were seen over areas as great as 320 square miles aroimd one 

 cannery vessel. The crab-net area southwest of Amak Island was 

 estimated to be 23 miles long and 2 miles wide. Fishing and canning 

 operations were continuous from about May 15 to August 15. 



The training ship Hakuyo Maru, of the Imperial Fisheries Institute, 

 again made a trip to Bering Sea for the purpose of instructing students 

 in pelagic-fishery methods and to afford them practice in navigation 

 and seamanship. The vessel was at Dutch Harbor from July 3 to 

 July 7, and on July 8 and 9 the captain and a party visited the fur-seal 

 rookeries at St. Paul Island. 



TROUT 



A small amount of trout was prepared in Alaska by operators en- 

 gaged primarily in other branches of the fisheries. The products 

 w^ere as follows: Dolly Vardcns, 6,795 pounds fresh, valued at $612; 

 5,792 pounds frozen, valued at $811; 11,400 pounds canned, valued 

 at $1,103; and 1,500 pounds dried, valued at $30; steelheads, 16,577 



