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Alaska to keep their saltery and reduction plants closed. Only five 
plants were in operation in that district, the same number as in 1931 
and 1932. The output of meal and oil in southeast Alaska was the 
smallest since 1924, and.the amount of Scotch-cured herring there 
was the lowest that has been recorded since this method of curing 
was introduced in the Territory in 1917. This indicates that the 
decline was due not only to the operation of fewer plants as a result of 
increased production costs and unfavorable market conditions, but 
also to a scarcity of herring that were suitable for curing. 
Tn Prince William Sound the herring run was light early in the season 
but developed into a very heavy rin in September, and the plants were 
operating to capacity for a number of weeks. The run in the Kodiak 
area was said to be the best in recent years, with the fish showing up 
well when the season opened on June 15 and continuing in good 
numbers until the early part of August. In July many boats from 
Prince William Sound fished in the Kodiak area, making a gross catch 
of approximately 58,500 barrels. The long haul to Prince William 
Sound in unusually warm weather did not improve the quality of the 
fish, and practically the entire amount thus taken was reduced to 
meal and oil. 
In the Aleutian Islands region the herring were not as abundant as 
in 1935, but they were of very good quality. The Golovin Bay Pack- 
ing Co. reported that fishing for herring in Golovin Bay was a complete 
failure, there being no catch whatever. 
About 41 percent of the total output of Scotch-cured herring in 
Alaska in 1936 came from the Kodiak Island area, where the produc- 
tion amounted to 4,750,100 pounds, an increase of more than a million 
pounds over that for 1935, and the largest pack for any year except 
1932, when 5,411,400 pounds were prepared. The production m 
Prince William Sound dropped from 5,626,500 pounds in 1935 to 
3,412,425 pounds, and in the Aleutian Islands region from 3,404,675. 
pounds to 2,491,450 pounds, these districts supplying 30 percent and 
22 percent, respectively, of the total output in 1936. Only 7 percent 
of the Scotch-cured product came from southeast Alaska, where the 
production amounted to 759,250 pounds, as compared with 2,187,000 
pounds in 1935. 
Of the 20 concerns which handled herring in southeast Alaska, 6 
were cold-storage plants that froze herring for bait and 8 were engaged 
solely in the production of bait herring. The followimg companies 
operated saltery and reduction plants in this district: 
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Atlas Packing Corporation. -25. 22 2225 les eee eae Deep Cove. 
Buchan wealemen! Paeking (Co 2.29) -ese eee — See Port Armstrong. 
Northwestern Elerring,,\COl= 225-555) =e eee ee Port Conclusion. 
Storfold & Grondahl Packing €o- ~ 20-2 Sees s--- > == Washington Bay. 
In central Alaska the Oceanic Fisheries Co. operated its fioating 
saltery, the Donna Lane, in the Kodiak area until about the middle of 
August and then moved it to Prince William Sound, where saltery 
operations were carried on aboard the vessel in conjunction with reduc- 
tion operations at the shore plant leased from the Perfection Fisheries, 
Inc. Two other floating plants were operated in the Kodiak area— 
the Rosamond, belonging to the San Marco Fish Co., and the John A, 
formerly a codfish schooner, which was purchased by the Chatham 
Strait Fish Co. and converted into a herring saltery. 
