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In 1911 the Pacific American Fisheries built a cannery at King 

 Cove, on the south side of the Alaska Peninsula, a few miles east of 

 Thin Point, and in the fall purchased the saltery. The cannery was 

 operated in 1911 and each year since. 



In 1917 the Pacific American Fisheries built and operated a new 

 cannery at Ikatan, on Isanotski Strait, at the eastern end of Unimak 

 Island. The Sockeye Salmon Co. built and operated in the same 

 year a new cannery on Morzhovoi Bay, a few miles from the strait, 

 and on the Alaska Peninsula. In 1920 the latter was moved to the 

 Unimak Island side of the strait, and in 1921 sold to P. E. Harris & 

 Co. 



SHUMAGIN AND SANNAK ISLANDS 



Small salteries have been operated at different places on the Shu- 

 magin and Sannak groups. The plants have usually been crude and 

 primitive affairs and were operated whenever the price of salted 

 salmon was high enough to justify same. As the ownership and the 

 location in many instances changed frequently, no attempt has been 

 made even to list them. 



In 1920 the Shumagin Packing Co. installed the necessary machin- 

 ery in its saltery and put up a pack of canned salmon. 



BERING SEA 



Bristol Bay. — The great redfish producing section of the world is 

 in the Bristol Bay portion of Bering Sea. This bay lies in the eastern 

 section of Bering Sea, inside of a line drawn from Port Moller to Cape 

 Newenham, and a number of important rivers debouch into it, in all 

 of which the annual runs of salmon, especially reds, are important. 



Bristol Bay is considerably off the line of steamship travel, and as 

 a result the companies operating here are compelled to have ships in 

 which to bring up their employees and supplies in the spring and to 

 take back the men and prepared products in the late summer or 

 early fall when the season has ended. 



Cannery ships belonging to the Nushagak plants are taken into the 

 bay and anchored as near the canneries as possible. Owing to shoals 

 this can not be done on Kvichak Bay and the Naknek and Egegik 

 Rivers. In the early days of the fisheries the ships running to the 

 latter canneries were brought as close to the plants as possible, un- 

 loaded by means of scows, and then taken to the Nushagak for shelter. 

 When their numbers were too great to permit of this they were 

 moored in the open about 5 miles off the point separating Kvichak 

 Bay and Naknek River, where the anchorage is good and the vessels 

 have very little trouble in riding out storms. Usually the captain 

 and a boy are left aboard the ship. 



NUSHAGAK RIVER AND BAY 



The Nushagak River, sometimes called the Tahlekuk, with its 

 tributaries, and the Wood River, which enters the head of Nushagak 

 Bay close by the mouth of the Nushagak, form a favorite resort of 

 the red salmon, while all other species also ascend them. 



But little is known of the upper courses of the Nushagak River, 

 except that they drain the region between Lakes Clark and Iliamna 

 on the east and the Kuskokwim on the West. 



