322 U. S. BUREAU OF FISHERIES 
Persons engaged, wages paid, and operating units, Alaska halibut industry, 1936 









Item Total Item Total 
PERSONS ENGAGED OPERATING UNITS 
MShenmien ss Wihltes ie ee eee 525 || Vessels: 
Shoresimen: Wihitesus 22s seen es 69 Power, Overistons: = ee | ae ees 104 
Net tonnage-2--2- 22s eee 1, 412 
AMotal 302 SSA -2ALSS Bate eae hess 594 Maunches: 222222 Se ea eae 26 
Wages paid shoresmen__-.---+.---__------- $3, 862.,|| Skatesofilines:="2: 2! es. ee 2, 358 
Products of the Alaska halibut fishery in 1936 





Product Pounds Value 
Hresh' (Gineluding local)k ss. 22ee- Pail kk te ae ee ee ee ee 6, 957, 336 $443, 762 
POZO ree Oe BE a eas pirat soi8 bo ae Soo cee ee enema el cee ee 6, 609, 004 445, 692 
IDAN GIS Ye ke SS pe Be Se SE SEES eae Soe Se SS eS secs 153, 000 68, 850 
Motels == =- 2 eee weaceee secu toSst con - Se acboesenaneeebeeee st ese e see ee 13, 719, 340 958, 304 
1 The amount of livers landed by the Alaska fleet was not segregated; the quantity shown herein is the 
estimated amount landed in Alaska. 
COD 
Cod fishing from shore stations in Alaska is carried on only in a 
small way and is to some extent incidental to salmon pickling. Nine- 
teen persons, whites, were engaged in the industry in 1936, an increase 
of nine over the number reported for the previous year. Products of 
the shore fishery were as follows: 158,607 pounds of dry-salted cod, 
valued at $7,711; 80,769 pounds of pickled cod, valued at $2,821; 
9,355 pounds of stockfish, valued at $1,304; and 600 pounds of tongues, 
valued at $45—a total of 249,331 pounds, valued at $11,881, as com- 
pared with 147,737 pounds, valued at $6,813, in 1935. 
There were five sailing vessels in the Bering Sea fleet, the products 
of which are not included with the Alaska fisheries output because 
the vessels operate from and land their fares in ports of the Pacific 
Coast States. These were the same vessels that operated in the pre- 
ceding year, namely, the Sophie Christenson (570 tons) of the Pacific 
Coast Codfish Co., the Azalea (365 tons) and the Wawona (413 tons) 
of the Robinson Fisheries Co., and the Louise (328 tons) and William 
H. Smith (496 tons) of the Union Fish Co. 
Products of the offshore fishery were 3,879,657 pounds of dry- 
salted cod, valued at $193,956, and 11,650 pounds of tongues, valued 
at $941—a total of 3,891,307 pounds valued at $194,897, as compared 
with 4,439,337 pounds valued at $200,189 in 1935. The offshore fleet 
employed 194 persons, or 8 less than in the previous year. 
WHALES 
The American Pacific Whaling Co. again operated its plants at 
Akutan and Port Hobron. Seven steam whalers were used by the two 
plants during the season, and employment was given to 223 persons, 
of whom 206 were whites and 17 natives. One of the whalers, the 
Westport, valued at $59,000, struck a reef off Akutan Island in Sep- 
tember and was a total loss. 
Three hundred and eighty-five whales were taken, consisting of 
160 finback, 118 humpback, 41 sulphur bottom, and 66 sperm whales. 
This is a decrease of nine from the number taken in 1935. 
