ALASKA FISHERY AND FUR-SEAL INDUSTRIES, 1 020 



279 



Salmon taken in 1929, bij apparatus and species, in each geographic section of Alaska — 



Continued 



Apparatus and species 



Lines; 



Coho, or silver 



Chura, or keta 



Pink, or humpback. 



King, or spring 



Red, or sockeye 



TotaL 



Wheels: 



Chum, or keta. 

 King, or spring. 



Total... 



Total: 



Coho, or silver 



Chum, or keta 



Pink, or humpback. 



King, or spring 



Red, or sockeye 



Grand total. 



Southeast 

 Alaska 



496, 232 

 8,380 

 7,160 



424, 646 

 99 



936, 517 



28, 200, 



Central 

 Alaska 



3,640 



3,680 



760, 744 



5, 104, 960 



18, 494, 466 



142, 306 



5, 165, 353 



29, 667, 829 



Western 

 Alaska 



389, 000 

 26, 992 



415, 992 



30, 513 



1, 662, 778 



89, 172 



170, 336 



12, 118, 197 



14, 070, 996 



Total 



499,872 

 8,380 

 7,160 



424, 6t6 

 99 



940, 197 



389, 000 

 26, 992 



415,992 



2, 159,699 

 9, 394, 643 



40, 432, 132 

 768, 133 



19,185,011 



71,939,618 



CANNING 



CHANGES IN CANNERIES 



The six plants of the Alaska Consolidated Canneries were sold at 

 the beginning of the year to the owners of the Sunny Point Packing Co., 

 who then reorganized the company under the name of the Alaska 

 Pacific Salmon Corporation. Soon afterwards the Port Althorp plant 

 of the Deep Sea wSalmon Co. was acquired by this organization, giving 

 •it 10 plants in southeastern Alaska, 4 of which were closed for the 

 season. The cannery of the Petersburg Packing Co. at Petersburg 

 was sold to the Pacific American Fisheries, although operations were 

 continued under the former name. Libby, McNeill & Libby bought 

 the Karheen Packing Co.'s cannery at Karheen and the Klaw^ak 

 cannery of the North Pacific Trading & Packing Co. and operated the 

 plants in 1929. Their interests in this district were further expanded 

 by the purchase of the Sea-Coast Packing Co.'s plant at Craig at the 

 close of the season. The New England Fish Co. acquired the cannery 

 of Geo. T. Myers & Co. at Chatham. The sale of the Klawak plant 

 by the North Pacific Trading & Packing Co. and the Chatham plant 

 by Geo. T. Myers & Co. marks the retirement of pioneers in the salmon- 

 canning industry, the former company having established the first 

 plant in Alaska at Klawak in 1878 and the latter having operated the 

 Chatham cannery since 1904, while its operations on Columbia River 

 and Puget Sound began in the seventies. 



The Columbia River Packers Association purchased the F. C. 

 Barnes Co.'s plant at Lake Bay, which had been operated under lease 

 in 1928 by the Lake Bay Packing Co. The plant of the Mountain 

 Point Packing Co. on Wrangell Narrows, which was idle in 1928, was 

 taken over and operated during the season by the Wrangell Narrows 

 Packing Co. The Alaska Pacific Fisheries acquired properties of the 

 Alaska Sanitary Packing Co., including traps, floating equipment, 

 and the cannery site at Wrangell, and joint operations of these prop- 



