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U. S. BUREAU OF FISHERIES 



These statistics were compiled from data collected by the Inter- 

 national Fisheries Commission and by agents of the Bureau. 



Persons engaged, wages paid, and operating units, Alaska halibut industry, 1931 



' The number shown includes skates of lines on vessels and boats other than those credited to the halibut 

 industry which landed one or more fares of halibut. 



I The amount of livers landed by the Alaska fleet was not segregated; the quantity shown herein is the 

 estimated amount landed in Alaska by the American fleet. 



COD 



Cod fishing from shore stations in Alaska is carried on only in a 

 small way, cliiefly by independent fishermen in the Shumagin Islands 

 region and in the vicinity of Unalaska. Twenty-six whites and one 

 native were engaged in the industry in 1937, and products amounted 

 to 140,774 pounds of dry-salted cod, valued at $5,189; 40,510 pounds 

 of pickled cod, vahied at $2,136; and 22,043 pounds of stockfish, 

 valued at $3,013— a total of 203,327 pounds, valued at $10,338, as 

 compared with 249,331 pounds, valued at $11,881, in 1936. 



There were four sailing vessels in the Bering Sea fleet, the products 

 of which are not included in the Alaska fisheries output because the 

 vessels operate from, and land their fares in, ports of the Pacific 

 Coast States. The vessels operated were the Sophie Christenson (570 

 tons), of the Pacific Coast Codfish Co.; the W'awona (413 tons), of 

 the Robinson Fisheries Co.; and the Loiiwe (328 tons) and William 

 H. Smith (496 tons), of the Union Fish Co. The only one of the fleet 

 engaged in the industry in the previous year that was not sent north 

 in 1937 was the Azalea, of the Robinson Fisheries Co. 



Products of the offshore fishery were 3,776,983 pounds of dry- 

 salted cod, valued at $186,996, and 18,940 pounds of tongues, valued 

 at $1,615— a total of 3,795,923 pounds, valued at $188,611, as com- 

 pared with 3,891,307 pounds, valued at $194,897, in 1936. The off- 



