ALASKA FISHERY AND FUR-SEAL INDUSTRIES IN 192L' 



By Ward T. Bower, Agent, Alaska Service. 



CONTENTS. 



iNTKODUCnON 2 



Regulations for protection of walruses and sea 



lions 3 



Regular employees, Alaska service 3 



Fishery Industeies s 



Waters closed to commercial fishing 5 



Stream marking 7 



Stream guards 7 



Fishery patrol 7 



Alaska fishery intelligence service 8 



Violations of fisheries laws and regulations. . . 9 



Territorial fish commission 11 



Territorial license law 12 



Territorial license tax 13 



Afognak Reservation 13 



Aleutian Islands Reservation 14 



Annette Island Fishery Reserve 15 



Bristol Bay district 16 



Trout operations 16 



Runs of salmon 20 



Escapement 20 



Patrol 21 



Spawning grounds 22 



Recommendations 23 



Copper River fishery 23 



Karluk investigations 25 



Yukon River fishery 26 



Hatcheries 27 



Extent of operations 27 



Hatchery rebates 27 



Hatchery operations 27 



McDonald Lake 27 



Afognak 28 



Fortmann 28 



Quadra 28 



Juneau and Cordova 28 



General statistics of the fisheries 29 



Salmon industry 30 



Salmon catch and apparatus 31 



Salmon canning 32 



Changes in canneries 32 



New canneries 33 



Canneries not operated 33 



Total canneries operated 34 



Losses and disasters 36 



Statistics 36 



Mild curing of salmon 39 



Salmon pickling 40 



Fresh salmon 41 



Salmon freezing 41 



Drying and smoking of salmon 41 



Salmon by-products 42 



Halibut fishery 42 



Statistical summary 42 



Herring fishery 43 



Statistical summary 43 



Cod fishery 44 



Statistical summary 45 



Whale fishery 45 



Shrimps 46 



Crabs 46 



Fishery Industries— Continued. 



Minor fisheries 



Trout 



Clams 



Miscellaneous fishery products 



Fur-Seal Industry 



Pribilof Islands 



General administrative work 



Personnel 



Purchase and transportation of supplies . . . 



Power schooner Eider 



New fur-seal and sea-otter regulations 



Construction work 



Water supply on St . Paul Island 



By-products plant 



iriiproved sealing methods 



Natives 



Health conditions 



Schools 



Attendance at Salem Indian Training 



School, Chemawa, Oreg 



Savings accounts 



Payments for taking sealskins 



Payments for taking fox skins 



Census 



Fur-seal herd 



Quota for killing 



Killings of seals 



Age classes of seals 



Branded seals 



Census 



Specimens for scientific purposes 



Foxes 



Trapping season of 1921-22 



Sale of live foxes 



Reindeer 



Pribilof fur-seal skins 



Shipments 



Sales 



Disposition of all skins 



Pribilof record 



St. Louis record, Fouke Fur Co 



Pribilof fox skins 



Shipments 



Sales 



Fur-seal patrol by United States Coast Guard. 



Patrol of Washington coast 



Patrol of Alaska waters 



Sealing privileges accorded aborigines 



Japanese sealskins delivered to the United 



States 



Fur-Seal Census, Pribilof Islands, 1921« . . 



Tripods and markers 



Dates of counts 



Pups 



Cows 



BuUs 



Harem and idle bulls 



.\verage harem 



Losses of males 



Complete census 



» Appendix X to the Report of the U. S. Commissioner of Fisheries for 1922. B. F. Doc. 933. 



