66 U. S. BUREAU OF FISHERIES. 



In 1902 Charles Johnson, who had operated on the Ugashik River, 

 estahhshed a saltery here and operated it under the name of the 

 Lagoon Salmon Co., and made a pack that and the succeeding year. 

 In 1904 and 1905 it was shut down. It was reopened in 1906 and con- 

 tmued to operate until it was sold in 1914. In 1915 the new owners, 

 the Nelson Lagoon Packing Co., built a cannery here which was 

 oparated until 1920, when, it was shut down. 



VnaJaska Island. — In 1916 the Pacific American Fisheries, having 

 obtained a permit from the Department of Commerce, built a can- 

 nery at Unalaska, on Unalaska Island. This cannery is located 

 inside of the Aleutian Islands reserve, and permit was given for its 

 building and operation so that it might be possible for the Indians of 

 Unalaska and Dutch Harbor to obtain work at home and save them 

 the long trip to the Bristol Bay plants. It ceased operations at the 

 end of the 1917 season. 



KUSKOKWIM RIVER. 



This, one of the great rivers of Alaska, has been but little exploited 

 as yet. Very little accurate data have been obtainable about the 

 river until within the last couple of years, and this relates mainly to 

 the bay and a few miles of the adjacent river, which the United 

 States Coast and Geodetic Sm'vey has charted. 



We know that the river has considerable runs ©f salmon, but 

 usually ice conditions have been such in the spring that a cannery 

 crew frequently could not get in in time to prepare for the run. In 

 1906 a salting outfit was sent here by Seattle dealers, but arrived too 

 late for the run of fish.^ The outfit was cached at Bethel. 



During the last seven years some mild curing of king salmon has 

 been carried on here, but the lack of cold storage, both ashore and on 

 the vessels operating to and from the river, has prevented any con- 

 siderable development of this industry. 



YUKON RIVER. 



The 1918 report of the Alaska agent of the United States Bureau of 

 Fisheries ^ contains the following account of the development of the 

 salmon fisheries of the Yukon River: 



The development of the Yukon salmon fisheries be'.?an in 1918 with the establish- 

 ment of a floating cannery at Andreafski. The season's operations resulted in a pack 

 of IP), 403 cases of salmon, divided as follows: Cohos 2,661, chums 6,471, humpbacks 

 107, and kings 4,224 cases. In addition to tliis, 10, '100 pounds of cohos and chums were 

 dry-salted. The total catcli of salmon for the cannery was 115, 5:U, of which 26,144 

 were cohos, 73,921 chums, 3,227 humpbacks, and 12,239 Idngs. Fishing was carried 

 on from the moutli of the Yukon to a point above the junction of Clear River, chiefly 

 in that part of the Yukon delta known as Kwikluak Pass. The fishing seasons were 

 as follows: Kings, June 26 to August 17; chums, June 28 to September 8; humpbacks, 

 July 7 to July 29; and cohos, August 3 to September 8 Some of tlie cannerymen and 

 others frequently refer to salmon of one kind by the name "Yukons" or "Yukon 

 salmon." In so doing they mean l)right or frcsli-run chums. 



An investment of $48,000 was made in the plant One stern-wheeler, the Martha 

 Clow (65 tons net), one gas boat, the Allhea (17 tons net\ and three smaller power boats 

 were operated in connection with the cannery. Salmon were taken wdth 124 gill nets 

 aggregating 9,869 fathoms, and 6 wheels of the two-scoop pattern. Employment was 

 given to 169 men, 55 being fishermen. 102 slioresmen, and 12 transporters. Of these 

 36 were natives, 13 of wliom were listed as fishermen. 



a Alaska Fisheries an<i Fur Industries m 1918. IJy Ward T. Bower. Appendix VU, Report, U. S. Com- 

 missioner of Fisheries, 1918, pp. 29-30. Washington, 1919. 



