ALASKA FISHERY AND FUR-SEAL INDUSTRIES IN 1935 



By Ward T. Bower, Chief, Division of Alaska Fisheries 



CONTENTS 



Page 



Introduction. 1 



Visit of the Commissioner of Fisheries and 



other officials to Alaska 2 



Works Progress Administration.' 2 



Fishery Industries 3 



Executive orders 3 



New fishery regulations 3 



Annette Island Fishery Reserve 6 



Culture of Japanese oysters 7 



Stream improvement 7 



Stream marking 7 



Stream guards... 8 



Vessel patrol-. 8 



Aerial patrol 9 



Complaints and prosecutions... 9 



Territorial fishery legislation 11 



Territorial license tax 12 



Water-power projects in Alaska 12 



Kuskokwim River 12 



Yukon River 13 



Weirs for counting salmon escapement 13 



Klawak Creek 13 



Little Port Walter. 14 



Situk River 14 



Alitak Bay 14 



Chignik River 15 



Chinik Creek 15 



English Bay..-. 15 



Karluk River IS 



Morzhovoi Bay 16 



Orzenoi River 16 



Red River 16 



Salmon tagging.. 16 



Salmon life-history studies 17 



Unusual mortality of salmon 18 



Observations on the escapement of salmon.. 18 



Hatcheries 20 



General statistics of the fisheries 20 



Salmon 23 



Catch and apparatus 23 



Canning 25 



Changes in canneries 25 



New canneries ..- 25 



Canneries not operated 26 



Total canneries operated 27 



Losses and disasters 30 



Statistics 30 



Pack in certain districts 34 



Mild curing 35 



Pickling-. 37 



Fresh salmon 38 



Freezing 38 



Dry-salted, dried, and other miscellane- 

 ous salmon products.. 39 



Byproducts. 39 



Herring 39 



Statistical summary 41 



Fishery Industries — Continued. Page 



Halibut -.- 43 



Statistical summary _-. 43 



Cod 44 



Whales- 44 



Clams-.. 45 



Shrimp 46 



Crabs 46 



Japanese vessels in Bering Sea 46 



Trout 47 



Miscellaneous fishery products 47 



Fur-Seal Industry 47 



Pribilof Islands... 47 



General administrative work 47 



Transportation of supplies , 48 



Power vessel Penguin-. 48 



Roads 49 



Buildings 49 



Byproducts plant 49 



Natives 50 



Census.- -- 50 



Medical service 50 



Schools- 60 



Savings accounts 50 



Payments for taking fur-seal skins 51 



Payments for taking fox skins 52 



Fur seals 52 



Killings 52 



Age classes 53 



Reserving operations 54 



Computation of fur-seal herd 54 



Correction in report of killings for 193L 54 



Foxes 55 



Trapping season of 1935-36 55 



Reindeer 55 



Fur-seal skins - 56 



Shipments 56 



Sales 56 



Disposition of fur-seal skins taken on 



Pribilof Islands 61 



Shipment and sale of fox skins 62 



Sea-otter skins 62 



Fur-seal patrol 62 



United States Coast Guard 62 



Bureau of Fisheries -.. C3 



Sealing privileges accorded aborigines 63 



Japanese sealskins delivered to the United 



States 64 



Food of fur seals 64 



Fur seals for exhibition.-. 64 



Computation of Fur Seals, Pribilof Is- 

 lands, 1935 -- 65 



Bulls --.. 66 



Average harem 67 



Pups and cows 68 



Mortality of seals at sea 69 



Complete computation 69 



I Administrative Report No. 23, Appendix I to the Report of the U. S. Commissioner of Fisheries for 

 1936. Approved for publication, June 5, 1936. 



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