ALASKA FISHERY AND FUR-SEAL INDUSTRIES 



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Companies that canned salmon in Alaska, number and location of canneries operated, 

 and nvmber of traps oivned by each, 1937 — Continued 



'' Traps only were operated, the fish being packed at other canneries. 



LOSSES AND DISASTERS 



One of the most serious disasters in the Alaska fisheries in many- 

 years occurred toward the end of September when the purse seiner 

 Limit, of Storfold & Grondahl Packing: Co. foundered in a gale in 

 Chatham Strait and was lost with its entire crew of eight men. 



The major property loss m the Alaska fisheries in 1937 was the 

 destruction of the Hidden Inlet plant of the Nakat Packing Corpora- 

 tion by fire on May 26, before the fisliing season started. The loss 

 of buildings, equipment, fisliing apparatus, boats, and supplies 

 amounted to $268,603. Other losses by fire in southeast Alaska 

 included the herring plant of the Red Bluff Fisheries in August and 

 the crab canneries of Kayler-Otness, Inc., at Petersburg, and the 



