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Pack of canned salmon in Alaska in 1924, by districts ' 



District 



Coho 



Chum 



Hump- 

 back 



King 



Red 



Total 



Percent- 

 age of in- 

 crease or 

 decrease 



from 



1923 



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 — — 



lev Strait-Lynn Canal 



Chatham Strait-Frederick Sound. 



Sumner Strait-Dixon Entrance 



West coast, Prince of Wales Island 



Cases 

 4,432 



11,012 

 9,405 

 12, 356 

 12,812 

 12, 922 

 10, 673 

 15, 522 

 30, 598 

 19, 374 

 34, 241 

 10,254 



Cases 



31, 168 



4, 803 



127, 818 



9,895 



12,721 



2, 875 



39, 121 



530 



Cases 

 4,66S 



126, 382 



157, 352 



446, 174 



69, 649 



Total 183,601 1,028,488 2,601,283 



173, 964 



51,837 



251,424 



34, 183 



381,506 



26, 246 



14,913 



216, 899 



370, 658 



831, 554 



243, 430 



Cases 



12, 928 



1,907 



792 



55 



84 

 5,681 



51 

 3, 868 

 3,549 

 2, 458 

 1.103 

 1,149 



23 



33, 648 



Cases 



764, 663 



50, 286 



112, 154 



81, 089 



94, 960 



68, 550 



8,814 



74, 872 



29, 127 



67, 755 



16, 042 



66, 814 



12, 769 



Cases 



817, 860 



56, 996 



425, 740 



152, 281 



371, 545 



124, 101 



442, 414 



116,189 



63,111 



444, 092 



564, 529 



1, 379, 932 



336, 125 



1, 447, 895 



5, 294, 915 



-33. 21 



-5.56 



-1-111.38 



+ 117.90 



-1-153. 12 



+37. 16 



+ 172.97 



+59. 16 



-5. 73 



-3.82 



+ 12. 17 



-14.70 



-5.94 



+5.15 



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



MILD CURING 



The salmon mild-cure industry showed a material gain over the 

 production of 1923. During most of the year the market was brisk 

 and fishermen obtained good prices for their catches. As is well 

 known, this industry has reached its greatest development in south- 

 eastern Alaska, where the feeding grounds of the salmon are more 

 accessible to the fishermen at all times of the year and improved 

 facilities for marketing their catches are available. 



This industry gave employment to 1,766 persons, as compared 

 with 1,831 in 1923, a decrease of 3.5 per cent. Of these, whites num- 

 bered 1,648, natives 116, and Filipinos 2. 



The total output of mild-cured salmon was 5,187,200 pounds, 

 valued at SI, 137,301, as against 3,372,250 pounds, valued at $726,622, 

 produced in 1923, or an increase of 51 per cent in products and 56.5 

 per cent in value. The pack consisted of 5,115,200 pounds of kings 

 and 72,000 pounds of cohos. This production was divided between 

 the three districts as follows : Southeastern Alaska produced 4,338,400 

 pounds of kings and 72,000 pounds of cohos, or a total of 4,410,400 

 pounds; central Alaska produced 97,600 pounds of kings and western 

 Alaska 679,200 pounds of kings. Reduced to tierces of 800 pounds 

 each, the pack was 6,394 tierces of kings and 90 of cohos. 



