ALASKA FISHERY AND FUR-SEAL INDUSTRIES, 1921. 



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Oil andjertilizer. — Fish oil works and fertilizer plants, 40 cents per 50-gallon barrel 

 for oil and 40 cents per ton for fertilizers and fish meals: whale oil, 50 cents per 50- 

 gallon barrel for oil, and 50 cents per ton for fertilizer. 



Under this law the tax on king and red salmon is increased 1^ 

 cents per case. The tax of 2J cents per 100 pounds is made applicable 

 to salted herring, which was exempt from taxation under the act of 

 1919. The tax on fish traps is increased SlOO per annum, while 

 the tax on gill nets, seines, nonresident fishermen, and fish buyers 

 is new legislation. Oil and fertilizer or meal made wholly or in part 

 from herring were previously taxed at the rate of $2 per barrel and 

 ton. respectively, wnereas under the present law fish oil and fertilizer 

 or meal are taxed, respectively, at the rate of 50 cents per gallon and 

 ton. The tax on whale oil is reduced from $1 per barrel to 50 cents, 

 but a tax of 50 cents per ton is levied on fertilizer manufactured 

 from whales, which product was heretofore untaxed. 



TERRITORIAL LICENSE TAX. 



Under the revenue laws of Alaska, as modified in 1921, license 

 taxes were imposed on dealers in fresh fish and on nonresident 

 fishermen, and higher rates were fixed on products of various classes 

 and on the fishery establishments and apparatus used in the industry. 

 Territorial taxes are payable to the treasurer of Alaska, who furnished 

 a statement on May 2, 1922, covering the collections made to that 

 date for the fiscal year ending December 31, 1921. The treasurer 

 reported that collections were practically complete, probably not 

 more than S5,000 remaining outstanding under the fisheries schedules 

 of the tax law. The total for the calendar year is apparently about 

 $75,000 less than that for 1920. 



Fishery license taxes collected by Territory for fiscal year ended December 31, 1921. 



Schedule. 



Salmon canneries (pack) 



Salmon canneries (net income) 



Clam canneries 



Fish traps 



Salteries and miild-cure plants 



Fresh-fish dealers 



Cold-storage plants 



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



Gill and stake nets 



Seines 



Division 

 No. 1. 



$24,747.07 

 82.07 



28,000.00 



2, 406. 14 



3,073.37 



1,400.00 



804.40 



440.50 



880.00 



Total 61,833.55 



Division 

 No. 2. 



$1,561.70 



159.00 



1,858.87 



Division 

 No. 3. 



$118,663.90 



4,696.28 



3.04 



18,600.00 



5, 422. 94 



3.70 



375.00 



158. 56 



5, 447. S7 



1, 205. 00 



154,576.«9 



$144, 972. 67 



4, 778. 35 



3. 04 



46,600^00 



7,967.25 



3,077.07 



1,775.00 



962. 96 



6,047.37 



2,085.00 



218,268.71 



AFOGNAK RESERVATION. 



Commercial fishing for salmon in the Afognak Reservation was 

 carried on by 60 natives who were permitted to exercise that privilege 

 under the order of March 21, 1912, and to whom the required licenses 

 were issued. Of this number 45 were residents of Afognak Island 

 and 15 of Spruce Island. Fishing began in May at the important 

 fields of Malina, Paramanoff, Seal Bay, and Little Afognak and was 

 continued until about the middle of August. The catch was sold 

 to the Kadiak Fisheries Co., at Kodiak, and to the Katmai Packing 

 Co., at Uzinki, a new concern in the salmon-canning industry. 



