ALASKA FISHEEY AND FI'R-SEAL INDUSTRIES, 1923 



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1922: 1,085 gill nets, or 63.237 fathoms, as against 1,010 nets and 

 71,930 fathoms in 1922, showing an increase of 75 in the number of 

 nets but a reduction in quantity of web of 8,693 fathoms. The num- 

 ber of traps operated was 106 driven and 7 floating, as compared 

 with 118 and 2. respectively, in 1922. 



Western Alaska used 15 seines, or 875 fathoms of web, a reduction 

 from the number shown in 1922 of 7 seines, or 3,725 fathoms of 

 webbing. A total of 2,156 gill nets was used, having an aggregate 

 lengtli of 271.060 fathoms, an increase of 101 nets, but a reduction of 

 6,675 fathoms in the quantity of webbing used. In western Alaska 

 5 driven traps were operated as compared with 9 in 1922. 



Seines and gill nets each caught approximateh' 27 per cent of 

 salmon taken in Alaska in 1923, traps took 44 per cent, while lines 

 and wheels took the remaining 2 per cent. 



Percentage of salmon caught in each Alaska district, hy principal forms of 



apparatus 



The total catch of salmon in 1923 was 77,422,311, an increase of 

 5,051,911 over the number taken in 1922. Southeast Alaska shows 

 a gam of 15,905,921, while central and western Alaska fell off 

 5,081,933 and 5,772,077, respectively. The catch by species shows 

 that cohos decreased 70,406, kings 88,889, and reds 6,960,121. Chums 

 increased 441,630 and humpbacks 11,729,697. 



SaliDQti taken in 1923, t)if apparatus and species, for each geographic section of 



Alaska 



Apparatus and species 



Seines: 



Coho, or silver 



Chum, or keta 



Humpback, or pink. 



King, or spring 



Red, or sockeye 



Southeast 

 Alaska 



381, 950 



2, 404, 865 



14,096,807 



17, 772 



747, 980 



Total. 



17,649,374 



Central 

 Alaska 



88, 589 



177,083 



1, 617, 233 



2,335 



1, 229, 270 



3, 114, 510 



Gill nets: 



Coho, or silver 



Chum, or keta 



Humpback, or pink. 



King, or spring 



Red , or sockeye 



134,601 ! 

 17,695 I 

 72,722 I 

 48, 176 ; 



290,398 



42,829 



56, 687 



714, 237 



18, 028 



1,050,792 



Total. 



563, 592 



Traps: 



Coho, or silver 



Chum, or keta 



Humpback, or pink. 



King, or spring 



Red, or sockeye 



741,262 



1,551,354 



24, 605, 551 



23,420 



1, 300, 621 



1.882,573 



258, 716 

 629, 993 



1,212,486 

 28,264 



3, 404, 368 



Total 28,222,208 



5, 533, 827 



Western 

 Alaska 



5,953 



3,711 

 359, 124 



368, 788 



9,814 



252, 081 



3 



01,164 



18, 184, 654 



18, 537, 716 



61 

 19,802 



5,367 

 371,444 



396, 674 



Total 



470, 539 



2, 587, 901 



15,714,040 



23,818 



2, 336, 374 



21,132,672 



187, 244 

 326, 463 

 786, 962 

 157, 368 

 19, 525, 844 



20,983,881 



1, 000, 039 



2,201,149 



25,818,037 



57, 051 



5,076,433 



34, 152, 709 



