ALASKA FISHERY AND FUR-SEAL IXI^JSTRIES 



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DRY-SALTED, DRIED, AND OTHER MISCELLANEOUS SALMON PRODUCTS 



In southeast Alaska a pack of canned kippered salmon was pre- 

 pared by one of the salmon canneries at Ketchikan, the total produc- 

 tion amounting to 254 cases of kings and 60 cases of chums, 48 half- 

 pound cans to the case, valued at $1,524 and $270, repectively. In 

 this district, also, there were produced 59,750 pounds of frozen 

 salmon, valued at $634, for use as bait in the halibut fishery. In 

 central Alaska one outfit on Cook Inlet prepared 11,200 pounds of 

 dry-salted king salmon valued at $1,800 and 525 pounds of dry- 

 salted red salmon valued at $100. 



In the fishery of the Yukon, Tanana, and Kuskokwim Rivers, 

 which is carried on principally by natives, 1,148,000 pounds of dried 

 chum salmon were prepared, valued at $79,900. Ten whites and 616 

 natives engaged in the fishery, and the apparatus used consisted of 

 249 wheels, 388 gill nets of 5,861 fathoms, 2 dories, and 50 rowboats 

 and skiffs. 



Production of dry-salted, dried, and other miscellaneous salmon products in Alaska in 



1937 



BYPRODUCTS 



Salmon meal and oil were prepared at a byproducts plant in south- 

 east Alaska, which gave employment to 24 white shoresmen, and at a 

 salmon cannery on Larsen Bay, in the central district, in connection 

 with the canning operations. 



The total production in 1937 was 1,972,000 pounds of fertilizer, 

 valued at $29,151, and 78,100 gallons of oil, valued at $23,956, as 

 compared with 1,554,000 pounds of fertilizer, valued at $24,579, and 

 45,435 gallons of oil, valued at $13,984, in 1936 — an increase of about 

 27 percent in the output of fertilizer and 72 percent in the output of oil. 



