ALASKA FISHERY AND FUR-SEAL INDUSTRIES, 1935 



37 



PICKLING 



Operations in the salmon-pickling industry since 1930 have been 

 marked by a striking variation between the odd and even years. 

 This continued in 1935, when the production was more than double 

 that for 1934, although it fell somewhat short of the quantity re- 

 ported for other recent odd years. 



In the western district, which produced about 60 percent of the 

 total output, operations were carried on by five plants in the Bristol 

 Bay area, of which two were primarily engaged in the canning indus- 

 try. In addition, the floating plant Anvil, of the Davis Fisheries, 

 Inc., packed salt salmon at the mouth of the Kuskokwim River, 

 and there was a small production on the Yukon River and at Dutch 

 Harbor. A considerable number of small plants again operated in 

 the central district, chiefly off the south coast of the Alaska Peninsula 

 from Sanak Island to Kodiak Island, and on Cook Inlet and Prince 

 William Sound. Some pickled salmon was also put up in southeast 

 Alaska. 



One hundred and twenty-three persons were employed in the 

 industry — an increase of 92 over the number reported for the previous 

 year. The total output was 896,175 pounds, valued at $95,158, as 

 compared with 387,450 pounds valued at $28,987 in 1934. 



Persons engaged, wages paid, and operating units, Alaska salmon-pickling industry, 



1935 



Items 



rishermen: 

 Whites.. 

 Natives- 



PERSONS ENGAGED 



Total. 



Shoremen: 

 Whites.. 

 Natives. 



Total- 



Grand total. 



Wages paid shoresmen. 



OPERATING UNITS 



Plants: 



Shore 



Floating — 



Power vessels 



Net tonnage 



Total plants operated 



Vessels: 



Power, over 5 tons 



Net tonnage 



Launches 



Power dories 



Gill-net boats 



Seine skiffs 



Rowboats and skiffs 



Lighters and scows 



Houseboat 



Apparatus: 



Beach seines 



Fathoms 



Gill nets 



Fathoms 



Lines 



Southeast 

 Alaska 



9 

 300 



Central 



Alaska 



1 



14 

 24 



2 

 17 



7 

 11 



2 

 19 

 19 



3 



1 



22 



1,495 



23 



660 



2 



Western 

 Alaska 



73 



$22, 642 



1 



276 



4 



24 

 2,725 



Total 



70 



53 



123 



>3,611 



28 



2 



290 



30 



5 

 41 



8 

 11 

 14 

 19 

 22 



4 



1 



22 

 1,495 



56 



3,685 



2 



