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Consideration has been given to the important matter of deter- 

 mining what proportion of the herring catch is used for food products 

 and what is converted into oil and fertilizer. According to available 

 figures, two-thirds of the total catch were used for fertilizer and oil 

 and one-third was prepared for food or used as halibut bait. In 

 southeastern Alaska where the herring average considerably smaller 

 in size than those in central and western Alaska, most of the fish 

 are used for other than food purposes. The manufacture of herring 

 fertilizer and oil centered in the southeastern district, where more 

 than 88 per cent of the catch was utilized in this way. In central 

 Alaska only about one-fifth of the catch was used in the manufacture 

 of fertilizer and oil, as the business was confined to Prince William 

 Sound. To arrive at the foregoing figures it was estimated that about 

 1 ton of fertilizer and 300 gallons of oil can be produced from 6 tons 

 of raw herring. Of the 18 concerns that manufactured oil and 

 fertilizer, only five were exclusively reduction plants, the others 

 being engaged in the preparation of food products also. 



In the southeastern district, the Alaska Herring & Sardine Co., 

 at Little Port Walter, canned salmon and prepared Scotch-cured 

 herring, oil, and fertilizer. Fifteen other concerns prepared herring 

 products principally, among which were the following: 



Salteries : 



Douglas Fish Co Todd. 



National Fish Co Killisnoo and Hood Bay. 



Reduction plants: 



Hamilton Packing Co Hood Bay. 



Killisnoo Fisheries Killisnoo. 



Marine Packing & Reduction Co Washington Bay. 



Puget Sound Reduction Co Port Armstrong. 



Saltery and reduction plants: 



Alaska Consolidated Canneries Saginaw Bay. 



Arentsen & Co Big Port Walter. 



Baranof Packing Co Red Bluff Bay. 



Buchan & Heinen Port Armstrong. 



Chatham Strait Fish Co New Port Walter. 



Ness Fish Co Petersburg. 



Northwestern Herring Co Port Conclusion. 



In addition, five cold-storage plants froze herring for bait for the 

 halibut fishery, and a number of fishermen were engaged in catching 

 herring solely for bait. 



In central Alaska, operations were conducted in three localities — 

 Prince William Sound, with 12 operators; Cook Inlet, with 29 oper- 

 ators; and Kodiak-Afognak district, with 15 operators. In the 

 Prince William Sound district the following companies operated: 



Reduction plant: 



Alaska By-Products Co Port Benny. 



Salteries: 



Atlantic & Pacific Packing Co Floating plant. 



J. J. Hovd Horseshoe Bay. 



Johnson Packing Co Latouche. 



Latouche Packing Co Port Crawford. 



Utopian Fisheries Floating plant. 



Saltery and reduction plants: 



Everett-Pacific Fisheries Thumb Bay. 



Franklin Packing Co Port Ashton. 



W. J. Imlach Packing Co Port Benny. 



Knight Island Packing Co Drier Bay. 



San Juan Fishing & Packing Co Evans Bay. 



S. Sklaroff & Sons Crab Bay. 



