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the larger operators engageii in the salting and reduction of herring 

 were the following: 



Reduction plant: Port Ainistrong Herring 



Co. (floating plant) Port Armstrong. 



Saltery : Ness Fish Co Petersburg. 



Saltery and reduction plants: 



Arentsen & Co Big Port Walter. 



Atlas Packing Corporation Deep Cove. 



Buclian & Heinen Packing Co Port Armstrong. 



Chatham Strait Fish Co New Port Walter. 



Fidalgo Island Packing Co Bay of Pillars. 



Marine Packing & Reduction Co Washington Bay. 



Nortliwestern Herring Co Port Conclusion. 



Port Walter Herring & Packing Co Saginaw Bay. 



Storfold & Grondahl Packing Co Washington Bay. 



United States-Alaska Packing Co. ...{P^-J^"-';-^;^ ^^^, 



In central Alaska operations were carried on mainly in Prince 

 William Sound. Some packing was done in the Kodiak region, where 

 a quantity of bait herring also was obtained, and one operator in 

 the Chignik district put up a pack of the Scotch-cured product, but 

 virtually no herring were taken in the Cook Inlet area. The more 

 important operators in central Alaska were the following: 



Salteries: 



Lars Hansen Chignik. 



North American Fisheries (floating 



plant) fSeldovia. 



jSitkalidak Island. 



Trinity Packing Co Three Saints Bay. 



Salter}- and reduction plants: 



Johnson Fisheries Thumb Bay. 



Morgan Packing Co Port Benny. 



San Juan Fishing & Packing Co Evans Bay. 



S. Sklaroflf & Sons Crab Bay. 



Of the following operators in the western district, all but two were 

 engaged in the fishery at Dutch Harbor and all produced pickled 

 herring, chiefly Scotch-cured: 



Edward Anderson Golovin Bay. 



Aurora Fish Co Floating plant. 



Broadbay Fisheries Unalaska. 



Jordon Columbus Dutch Harbor. 



Golovin Bay Packing Co Golovin Bay. 



Johnson & Peterson Dutch Harbor. 



North American Fisheries Do. 



Harry Olsen Unalaska. 



Polar Packing Co Do. 



Utopian Fisheries (Inc.) Floating plant. 



Property losses in the herring industry in 1929 totaled $22,543, 

 consisting of seines and skiffs to the value of $8,950, damage to 

 buildings by fire amounting to $1,593, and the loss of the gas boat 

 Hillside II valued at $12,000. One fisherman was drowned. 



Further investigations in connection with the study of Alaska 

 herring, which has been in progress during the last few years, were 

 carried on by George A. Rounsefell, scientific assistant of the bureau, 

 and one temporary assistant. 



