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FISHERIES OF ALASKA, 1908. 



and packed it under eastern labels, and the consumer has been none 

 the wiser. 



Sliore stations. — During 1908 the following shore stations were oper- 

 ated: By the Alaska Codfish Company, at Company Harbor and 

 Moffat Cove, Sannak Island; Unga, Baralof (Squaw Harbor), and 

 Kelley Rock (Winchester), Unga Island; and Dora Harbor, on Uni- 

 mak Island. Blom Codfish Company, at Eagle Harbor, on Nagai 

 Island. Pacific States Trading Company, at Northwest Harbor, Lit- 

 tle Koniuji Island, and Ikatik, on Unimak Island. Seattle-Alaska 

 Fish Company, at Baralof (Squaw Harbor), on Unga Island. Union 

 Fish Company, at Pirate Cove, Popof Island; Northwest Harbor, 

 Little Koniuji Island; Eagle Harbor and Sanborn Harbor, on Nagai 

 Island ; Unga, on Unga Island ; Pavlof Harbor and Johnson Harbor, 

 on Sannak Island; and Dora Harbor, on Unimak Island. 



Mr. John H. Nilson is building a station at Baralof (Squaw Harbor), 

 Unga Island, and will have it ready to operate in 1909. 



The stormy weather ot last winter and spring interfered consider- 

 ably with dory fisliing from the stations, but fairly good catches were 

 made after the weather settled, early in the summer. 



Statistics. — The table below shows the condition of the industry in 

 1908. In addition a total of 227 men were occupied in the industry, 

 all in central Alaska, 187 of them fishermen, 27 shoresmen, and 13 

 transporters. 



Investment in the Central Alaska Cod Fisheries in 1908. 



Items. 



Transporting vessels 



Launches 



Tonnage 



Sailing 



Tonnage 



Boats 



Number. 



1 



7 



2 



31 



289 



Value. 



$6,000 



7,500 



'io.oso' 



Items. 



Apparatus: 



Hand lines 



Trawl lines 



Stations, with accessory prop- 

 erty 



Total. 



Number. 



Value. 



$2, 220 

 600 



90, 450 



Products of the Central Alaska Cod Fisheries in 1908. 



Products. 



Round 

 weight. 



Salted 

 weight. 



Value. 



Cod, salted 



Cod, pickled 



Cod tongues, salted. 



Total. 



Pounds. 

 5,354,666 

 3,733 



Pounds. 

 3, 766, 000 

 2,800 

 21,800 



5,358,399 



3, 790, 600 



$131,810 



143 



1,962 



133, 915 



Vessel JisMng. — A fleet of 17 vessels, with headquarters in California 

 and Washington, operated in Alaska waters this year, several of them 

 having spent the winter of 1907-8 in the North. The winter and 



