ALASKA FISHERY AND FTR-SEAL INDUSTRIES, 1923 



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Pack of canned salmon in Alaska in 1923, by districts ^ 



District 



Bristol Bay 



Port Moller and Herendeen Bay.- 



Ikatan-Shumagin Islands 



Chignik 



Kodiak-Afognak Islands 



Cook Inlet _ 



Prince William Sound 



Copper and Bering Rivers 



Yakutat and Dry Bay... — 



Icy Strait-Lynn Canal 



Chatham Strait-Frederick Sound.. 



Sumner Strait-Dixon Entrance 



West Coast Prince of Wales Island 



Total 



Coho 



Cases 



815 



10 



6,115 



1,465 



8,690 



12, 071 



1,525 



3,065 



21,954 



30, 274 



20,911 



49, 863 



7,349 



164, 107 



Chum 



Cases 



17, 396 

 2, 286 



48,611 

 5,749 

 5,301 

 2,324 



10, 579 



76, 858 



73, 690 



246, 645 



36, 183 



525, 622 



Hump- 

 back 



Cases 



King 



6,316 



451 



52, 459 



2,008 



134, 876 



18,685 



285, 255 



389, 030 



1,254,419 



304, 630 



2, 448, 129 



Cases 



12, 849 



1,743 



836 



76 



343 



6,933 



64 



2,451 



3,205 



6,869 



2,024 



950 



Red 



Total 



Cases 



1, 193, 527 



56, 312 



139, 533 



62, 146 



79, 994 



67,144 



15, 028 



67, 487 



23, 102 



62, 465 



17,611 



65, 955 



9,192 



38,343 1,859,496 



Cases 

 1, 224, 587 



60, 351 

 201,411 



69, 887 

 146, 787 



90, 480. 

 162, 072 



73, 003 



66, 946 



461, 721 



503, 266 



1, 617, 832- 



357, 354 



5, 035, 697 



1 Pack reduced to the basis of forty-eight 1-pound cans per case. 



MILD CURING OF SALMON 



The salmon mild-cure industry gave employment to 1,831 persons^ 

 including 1,600 independent trollers in southeast Alaska. Whites 

 numbered 1.615, natives 215, and Filipinos 1. Approximately 89 

 per cent of the mild-cured salmon was prepared in southeast Alaska, 

 where the bulk of the catch is made by trollers. In 1923 this in- 

 dustry represented an investment of $1,425,213, which is a decrease 

 of $146,812 as compared with $1,572,025 in 1922. The pack was 

 1,219 tierces, as against 5,283 tierces in 1922. There were packed 

 143 tierces of cohos, 4,070 of kings, and 6 of reds. In 1922 the pack 

 was 83 tierces of cohos and 5,200 of kings. 



Investment, person^s engaged, and. products of Alaska salmon mild-curing 



industry in 1923 



' Includes 800 trolling launches, valued at $800,000. 

 2 143 tierces. 



' 4,070 tierces. 

 ' 6 tierces. 



