288 



U. S. BUREAU OF FISHERIES 



Persons engaged, wages paid, and operating imits of Alaska salmon canning industry, 



i 4*^5— Continued 



Items 



Southeast 

 Alaska 



Central 

 Alaska 



Western 

 Alaska 



Total 



OPERATING UNITS— continued 



Apparatus: 



Purse seines 



Fathoms... 

 Beach seines 



Fathoms... 

 Gill nets 



Fathoms.. - 

 Traps, driven.. 

 Traps, floating. 



464 



80, 893 



5 



500 



317 



25, 360 



66 



378 



148 



14,710 



160 



18, 679 



1,722 



95, 195 



224 



44 



10 



2,625 



3 



190 



2 1,549 



157, 625 



2 



622 



98, 228 



168 



19, 369 



3,588 



278, 180 



292 



422 



s Includes 139 stake nets, of an average length of 25 fathoms each, used in the Bristol Bay area. 

 Output and value of canned salmon in Alaska in 1929 ' 



• Cases containing V^-pound cans have been reduced one-half in number, and thus, for the purpose of 

 affording fair comparison, all are put upon the basis of forty-eight 1-pound cans to the case. 



