ALASKA FISHERY AND FUR-SEAL INDUSTRIES 3809 
In addition to the foregoing, the floating plant Santa Flavia, of the 
Associated Fishermen of Alaska, which had been operated on the 
Nushagak River in recent years by the Lowe Trading Co., was badly 
damaged by fire at Seattle on April 7. As the cost of repairs would 
-be prohibitive, the vessel was condemned. 
Thirty-one lives were lost during the year—S in southeast Alaska, 
9 in central, and 14 in western Alaska. In the southeastern district 
three fishermen, one shoresman, and three transporters were drowned, 
and one fisherman died of disease. One fisherman and two trans- 
porters in central Alaska were drowned, one fisherman committed 
suicide, and one fisherman, three shoresmen, and one transporter died 
of disease. In western Alaska two fishermen and one shoresman were 
drowned, two fishermen and seven shoresmen died of disease, and two 
shoresmen were killed in accidents. 
STATISTICS 
One hundred and seventeen canneries were operated in Alaska in 
1936, or 18 more than in the previous year. Employment was given 
to 25,221 persons, as compared with 17,529 in 1935, an increase of 
7,692. White employees increased 4,238, natives 720, Chinese 253, 
Japanese 269, Filipinos 1,371, Mexicans 598, Kanakas 37, Puerto 
Ricans 119, Negroes 62, and miscellaneous (Koreans, Chileans, 
Peruvians, etc.) 25. 
The total pack of canned salmon was 8,437,603 cases, valued at 
$44,751,633. This is an increase of 64 percent in quantity and about 
74 percent in value over the production in 1935, when the pack 
amounted to 5,133,122 cases, valued at $25,768,136. The greater 
proportionate increase in value was owing chiefly to the fact that red 
salmon comprised a larger percentage of the total pack in 1936 than 
in the preceding year. ‘There was, however, a general decline in the 
average price per case, only the cohos showing a slight increase as 
compared with the value in 1935. 
The output of canned salmon in southeast Alaska increased from 
3,054,038 cases in 1935 to 4,076,717 cases in 1936, or 33 percent; in 
central Alaska from 1,802,231 cases to 2,869,681 cases, or 59 percent; 
and in western Alaska from 276,853 cases to 1,491,205 cases, or nearly 
439 percent. By species, in Alaska as a whole the pack of cohos in- 
creased from 190,177 cases in 1935 to 222,300 cases in 1936, or 17 
percent; chums, from 852,928 cases to 1,101,083 cases, or 29 percent; 
pinks, from 3,244,066 cases to 4,559,794 cases, or 41 percent; kings, 
from 36,405 cases to 51,884 cases, or 43 percent; and reds, from 809,- 
546 cases to 2,502,542 cases, or 209 percent. 
Details are included in the following tables to show comparison of 
the 1936 pack with the average for the 5 preceding years, 1931 to 
1935, by cases of each species and by districts. All species show 
gains over the 5-year average, the increase ranging from approxi- 
mately 3 percent for king salmon to 59 percent for pinks. By dis- 
tricts, the pack in 1936 increased approximately 55 percent over the 
5-year average in southeast Alaska, approximately 61 percent in the 
central district, and approximately 17 percent in western Alaska, a 
net increase of 48 percent over the 5-year average for all of Alaska. 
