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With the exception of a small production at Golovin Bay, all herring 

 packing in the western district was at Dutch Harhor and Unalaska, 

 the operators generally being the same as in the preceding year. The 

 l3avis Fisheries, Inc., which was engaged primarily in mild-curing 

 salmon off the mouth of the Kuskokwim River, prepared dry-salted 

 herring aboard the floating plant Anvil at Dutch Harbor. Other 

 important operators in the district were as follows, all of whom packed 

 Scotch-cured herring, while many put up bloater stock or dry-salted 

 herring also: 



Austnes & Rod Unalaska. 



Campbell & Dougal Dutch Harbor. 



Odin Isaacson Unalaska. 



Ed Jacobsen & Co Dutch Harbor. 



Jordan Colombos Lambides Do. 



Northwestern Herrmg Co Do. 



Olaf Olsen Unalaska. 



Peterson & Jorgensen Dutch Harbor. 



Polar Packing Co Unalaska. 



T. A. Roth Do. 



Studies concerning the life history and fluctuations in the abundance 

 of the herring populations in Alaska were continued by Edwin H. 

 JDahlgren, chiefly in the Chatham Strait fishing area. New develop- 

 ments in the tagging of herring for the purpose of tracing their 

 migrations have made possible the partial determination of the 

 mortality of this species as affected by natural conditions as well as 

 the drain of the fishery. 



STATISTICAL SUMMARY 



There were 1,339 persons engaged in the herring industry in 1935, as 

 compared with 885 in 1934. The number of plants increased from 

 26 to 32. Products of the fishery were valued at $2,374,092, an increase 

 of $771,068, or 48 percent over 1934, when the total value was 

 $1,603,024. Scotch-cured herring increased from 7,409,200 poimds 

 valued at $445,476 to 14,942,750 pounds valued at $808,064, or about 

 102 percent in quantity and 81 percent in value. Herring for bait 

 decreased from 6,391,950 pounds valued at $52,259 to 5,959,475 

 pounds valued at $50,512, or 7 percent in quantity and 3 percent in 

 value. Meal increased about 8 percent in quantity but decreased 19 

 percent in value, and oil increased 2 percent in quantity and 76 

 percent in value. 



