68 U. S. BUREAU OF FISHERIES. 



Products of Alaska Clam-Canning Industry in 1920. 



Items. 



Cases. 



Value. 



Minced clams: 



Jl-pound cans (48 per case) 



Uo. 1 eastern oyster cans (48 per case) 



1-pound cans (48 per case) 



2-pound cans 



Clam juice, 8-pound cans 



Total 



424 



5,876 



17 



aso 



136 



6,833 



$3,384 

 41, 132 



136 

 1,748 



412 



46, 812 



MINOR FISHERIES. 



TROUT. 



The output of trout in Alaska in 1920 was practically equal in 

 quantity and value to tliat of 1919, when it was valued at $13,1'^>5 ^s 

 against $18,002 in the past year. Southeastern Alaska led in pro- 

 duction, as approximately but 20 per cent of the catch came from 

 central and western Alaska, as compared with 27 per cent from those 

 districts in 1919 and 79 per cent in 1918. The chief factor contribut- 

 ing to this result was the continued closure of the cannery of the 

 Midnight Sun Packing Co., at Kotzebue Sound, where a few thou- 

 sand cases of Dolly Vardens were canned annually prior to 1919. 



The bulk of the catch of both steelhead and Dolly Varden trout 

 was handled as fresh or frozen fish by the Ripley Fish Co., and 

 Libby, McNeill & Libby, in southeastern Alaska. All canned trout 

 came from central and w^estern Alaska. No investment is credited 

 to this business, as all operations were incidental to halibut and sal- 

 mon industries. 



Products of Alaska Troitt Fishery in 1920. 



SABLEFISH. 



As may be generally known, the catch of sablefish each year is 

 made almost wholly by halibut fishermen operating in the offshore 

 waters of Alaska, and the quantity reported annually fluctuates with 

 market demands and the willingness of the fishermen to utilize space 

 in their boats for sablefish which might be filled more profitably with 



