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spiced, for food, 10,200 pounds, valued at $1,200; bloaters, 190,575 

 pounds, valued at $7,660; dry salted, 677,705 pounds, valued at 

 $19,974; canned, 38 cases, valued at $150; fertilizer, 17,172,027 

 pounds, valued at $491,448; and oil, 2,351,152 gallons, valued at 

 $999,045. The total value of herring products was $3,852,449, as 

 compared with $2,458,370 in 1924. 



The halibut industry produced 3,249,229 pounds of fresh fish, 

 valued at $302,000, and 7.722,422 pounds of frozen fish, valued at 

 $582,383, a total production of 10,971,651 pounds, valued at $884,383. 



The shore-station cod fishery yielded 2,853.942 pounds of prod- 

 ucts, valued at $128,803. The whaling industry produced oil, fer- 

 tilizer, pickled meat, and carcasses valued at $624,959. 



The pack of clams amounted to 75,279 cases, valued at $492,051. 

 The output of shrimps was 519,535 pounds, valued at $207,315. 

 Crab products were valued at $53,357. The output of trout was 

 53,152 pounds fresh, frozen, and pickled, valued at $6,137. There 

 were also produced 1,042,525 pounds of sablefish, valued at $44,836; 

 23,420 pounds of smelts, valued at $2,342; 10,835 pounds of flound- 

 ers, valued at $108; 20,643 pounds of rockfishes, valued at $390; 

 3,293 pounds of reel rockfish, valued at $100; and 30,736 pounds 

 of " lingcod : ' valued at $615. 



The total value of the manufactured fishery products of Alaska 

 in 1925 was $40,038,745. The value of the catch to the fishermen 

 was approximately $9,860,000. 



The entire Alaska fishery industry gave employment to 27,685 

 persons and represented an investment of $67,077,495. 



The extent and condition of the Alaska fisheries in 1925 and of 

 the activities of the bureau under the laws and regulations for the 

 protection of the fisheries are covered in detail in the annual report 

 of the Alaska service for that year. 2 



ALASKA FUR-SEAL SERVICE 

 GENERAL ACTIVITIES ON THE PRIBILOF ISLANDS 



The Pribilof Islands in Bering Sea, Alaska, are the breeding 

 grounds of the North American fur-seal herd and the chief source 

 of the world's supply of fur-seal skins. This herd numbers more 

 than 700,000 animals, contrasted with which recent reports indicate 

 that the Robben Island herd belonging to Japan contains about 

 29,000 animals and the Russian herd at the Commander Islands 

 about 19,000 animals. Other much smaller herds are found off 

 Uruguay, the west coast of South America, in the vicinity of the 

 Cape of Good Hope, and thinly scattered among a few islands of 

 the Antarctic. 



In the conduct of operations at St. Pairl and St. George Islands, 

 seal killings are limited to surplus males and are confined almost 

 wholly to animals three years of age. The skins are cured and pre- 



2 Alaska Fishery and Fur-Seal Industries in 1925. By Ward T. Bower. Bureau of 

 Fisheries Document No. 1008. 



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