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In the Cook Inlet district no reduction plants were operated; the 

 following were among the larger concerns salting herring for food : 



Alaska Consolidated Fisheries Portlock City. 



R. V. Anderson Seldovia. 



Herring Bay Packing Co Do. 



W. J. Imlach Packing Co Do. 



Johnson & Sunsby Do. 



S. Sklaroff & Sons Homer Spit. 



Atlantic & Pacific Packing Co Floating plant. 



Fidalgo Island Packing Co Port Graham. 



Ottar Hofstad Floating plant. 



Ed. Jacobsen & Co Seldovia. 



Conrad Johnson Halibut Cove. 



Knight Island Packing Co Do. 



Lippincott & Eide Do. 



Meredith Gissberg & Larein Do. 



Axel Norstedt Seldovia. 



North Coast Packing Co Halibut Cove. 



E. Sivertson Do. 



Libby, McNeill & Libby Floating plant. 



North American Fisheries Do. 



San Juan Fishing & Packing Co Tutka Bay. 



The chief operators in the Kodiak-Afognak district operating salt- 

 eries only were: 



Atlantic & Pacific Packing Co Floating plant. 



Caw Packing Co Uzinki. 



W. J. Imlach Packing Co Do. 



Franklin Packing Co Floating plant. 



Ottar Hofstad Do. 



Johnson Packing Co Do. 



Kodiak Herring Co Do. 



North American Fisheries Do. 



San Juan Fishing & Packing Co Uganik Bay. 



Shuyak Packing Co *. Shuyak Island. 



Svendsen & Shaw Packing Co Do. 



Utopian Fisheries Floating plant. 



It was estimated that about 51,000 barrels of herring from the 

 waters of Afognak Reserve and about 40,000 barrels from Cook 

 Inlet were salted. 



STATISTICAL SUMMARY 



The herring industry in Alaska employed 1,839 persons in 1925, as 

 compared with 1,407 in 1924. The number of plants increased from 

 32 in 1924 to 54 in 1925, and the investment from $3,849,422 to 

 $6,108,494, or 58.7 per cent. The products were valued at $3,852,449, 

 as compared with $2,458,370 in 1924, an increase of $1,394,079, or 

 56.7 per cent. Scotch-cured herring increased from 19,020,650 

 pounds in 1924 to 33,925,975 pounds in 1925, or approximately 78.3 

 per cent. Herring for bait increased from 3,599,350 pounds to 

 7,086,840 pounds. Fertilizer increased 83.5 per cent in quantity and 

 120 per cent in value, and oil 105.4 per cent in quantity and 98 per 

 cent in value over the production in 1924. 



