PACIFIC COD FISHERIES 1 



By John N. Cobb 

 Dean, College of Fisheries, University of Washington 



CONTENTS 



Page 



Natural history of the cod 385 



Distribution 388 



Size 388 



Migrations 389 



Spawning 389 



Young 390 



Food 390 



Other members of the Gadidse 390 



Species miscalled cod 392 



Banks frequented by cod 393 



Offshore banks in Bering Sea 394 



Offshore banks in the North Pacific Ocean 396 



Inshore banks 400 



Banks on the Asiatic shore 403 



History of the Pacific cod fishery 403 



History of Alaska shore-fishing stations T 41 5 



Persons employed 420 



Vessels and boats 421 



Lay of the crew_ 424 



Season, methods, etc 426 



Dressing the fish 436 



Shore-station methods 437 



Wastage in the industry 442 



Losses in weight 444 



Preparing cod for market 445 



Use of preservatives 453 



Market for Pacific cod 454 



Comparative analyses of Pacific and Atlantic cod 457 



Reddening of cod 457 



Brown mold 459 



Japan as a competitor 459 



Pacific cod industry in 1924 461 



Persons employed 461 



Investment 462 



Products 463 



Summary of the catch 463 



Summary of vessel-fishing data 464 



Detailed data of the fishing fleet from 1863 to 1925 467 



Summary of the shore-station data 484 



Detailed operations of the transporting fleet from 1876 to 1925 485 



Disasters to the fleet 495 



Bibliosrraphv 495 



NATURAL HISTORY OF THE COD 



Strange to relate, while the fishery for Pacific cod has been prose- 

 cuted since early in the sixties, scientists are not yet agreed as to the 

 proper name for the species. According to Bean 2 " Most writers 



1 Appendix VII to the Report of the United States Commissioner of Fisheries for 1926. 

 B. F. Doc. 1014. (This is a revision of B. F. Doc. 830. A map showing the location and 

 extent of the cod banks and the location of shore stations in Bristol Bay and Central 

 Alaska in 1914 may be consulted in Bureau of Fisheries Document No. 830 or in the 1915 

 volume of the Report of thte Bureau of Fisheries.) 



2 The Cod Fishery of Alaska, by Tarleton H. Bean. The Fisheries and Fishery Indus- 

 tries of the United States, Pt. II, sec. 5, Vol. I, pp. 198, 199. 



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