ALASKA FISHERY AND FUR-SEAL INDUSTRIES, 1920, 



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Fishery License Taxes Collected by Territory for Fiscal Year Ended Dec. 



31, 1920. 



Schedule. 



Salmon canneries 



Herring canneries 



Clam canneries 



Salteries and mild-cure plants 



Fish traps 



Fish-oil works and fertilizer and fish-meal plants . 



Cold-storage plants 



Whale-oil jilants 



Division 

 No. 1. 



$52,460.26 



71.95 



3.58 



923.73 



55, 800. 00 



18, 199. 73 



1,500.00 



Total 128, 879. 25 



.\dditional tax > I 



Delinquent whale products ta.x I 



Estimated deunquent canned salmon tax 



Division 

 Xo. 2. 



$1, 260. 94 



1, 384. 19 



Cf rand total 1 301 , 096. 43 



Division 

 No. 3. 



$88,474.61 



.10 



58.48 



4, 625. 14 



23, 500. 00 



1, 168. 00 



510.00 



100.00 



118, 436. 33 



"otal. 



$142, 195. 81 



72.05 



62.06 



5, 672. 12 



79, 300. 00 



19, 287. 73 



2, 010. 00 



100.00 



248, 699. 77 



700.66 



21,696.00 



30, 000. 00 



' Additional tax of 1 per cent of their annual net incomes collected from salmon canneries (not jjossible to 

 segregate by dixasions). 



DESTRUCTION OF PREDATORY FISHES IN BRISTOL BAY REGION. 



During the season of 1920 the Bureau cooperated with salmon 

 packers in the Bristol Bay region by organizing a force for the 

 destruction of i)redatory fishes in certain waters of the district. 

 Part of the expenses of the expedition were paid from a fund made 

 up by the fishery companies and the governor of Alaska. Field 

 Superintendent Dennis Winn, of the Bureau's fish-cultural serv- 

 ice, was in charge of the work. Mr. AVinn's report is as follows : 



In Seattle equipment was purchased and the services secured of J. W. Gard- 

 ner, a practical tish-culturist, of the Bureau of Fisheries; A. T. Loofl", of the 

 College of Fisheries, University of Washington, who has had considerahle 

 experience in commercial fishing ; and Harry Savage, a practical lisherman. 

 All jiroved exrellfnt nwu for tlie work to which they were assigned. JNIen and 

 equipment were transported from Seattle on the Libby Maine, which vessel 

 arrived at Bristol Bay on May 25, and we were put ashore at Libbyville the 

 same evening. 



Our equipment was taken ashore at the cannery of the Nakiiek Packing Co. 

 tlie evening of June 4, and the following morning we moved the entire ecpiip- 

 nient with supplies to tlie cannery of the Alaska-Portland Packers' A.ssocia- 

 tion farther up the Naknek River, where it was divided into three lots, one 

 for each location to he operated. Camps were estalilislied on the Upper 

 Naknek liiver. Lake Aleknagik. and Iliamna Lake. Mr. Lctoff was in charge 

 of the crew at Naknek, .Mr. Savage at Aleknagik, and Mr. Gardner at 

 Iliamna. Each camp was moved several times in order to facilitate the work, 

 as local conditions .ind possibilities were recognized. 



NAKNEK SECTION. 



.Mr. Looff, taking with him his portion of the equipment, one white man and 

 two Indians, was immediately transferred upriver, where camp was estab- 

 lished that evening ab«»nt 2 miles below the foot of the rapids. His opera- 

 tions extended from tlie rapids to about 5 miles below the camp, near the 

 mouth of Uali»h River. But few trout were observed below that point. A 

 sjMion troll was use<l en route to the camp site, and several steelheads and 

 one lake trout were caught, all above Ralph River. 



In making a survey of the vicinity we found we were late for the migrating 

 salmon, arriving at the latter end of the period, which extended only through 

 the month of .May an<l early .June. (Jood numbers of lake trout, however, were 

 taken in the vieinity of our camp, these weighing from to 12 pounds, and all 

 had fish in their stomachs — young salmon, smelts, and whitefish. It is safe to 



