AT.AS KA FISHERY AND FUR-SEAL I^-DUSTRIES, 1920. 



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Investment, Peesons Engaged, and Products of Alaska Herring Fishery 



IN 1920. 



• Cases. 



' Pounds. 



' Gallons. 



COD FISHERY. 



The changes of note in the cod industry of Alaska in 1920 were in- 

 creases in i^roduction of 17 per cent, 14 per cent in number of per- 

 sons employed, and 00 per cent in investment. These expansions are 

 recorded notwithstanding the withdrawal of J. A. Matheson, of 

 Anacortes, Wa.sli., who for many years was listed as an important 

 operator in the vessel fishery of western Alaska. The Bering Sea 

 Fisheries Co. appears as a new concern in this indihstry, but in reality 

 it is understood to be only an organization of the interests previously 



