32 ALASKA FISHERIES AND FUR INDUSTRIES IN 1917. 



Salmon in the Commercial Catch, Bristol Bay Region, 1913 to 1917. 



SALMON CANNING. 



NEW CANNERIES. 



In 1917 there were 18 more salmon canneries in operation in 

 Alaska than in 1916. Of this number nine were in southeast Alaska, 

 seven in central, and two in western Alaska. Those in the south- 

 eastern district were operated as follows: Alaska Herring & Sardine 

 Co., Port Walter; Alaska Pacific Herring Co., Big Port Walter; 

 Baranof Packing Co., Red Bluff Bay; R. L. Cole & Co., Tokeen; 

 Haines Packing Co., Letinkof Cove; Lane & Williams, Moira Sound; 

 Northland Fish Co. (floating plant), Metlakatla; Sitka Packing Co., 

 Sitka; and Robert Scott, a floating cannery at Craig. The central 

 district shows the following: Copper River Packing Co., Port Nellie 

 Juan; Lighthouse Canning" Co., Cordova; Moore Packing Co., Cor- 

 dova; Northwestern Fisheries Co., Kenai; Pacific American Fish- 

 eries, Ikatan; San Juan Fishing & Packing Co., Seward; Sockeye 

 Salmon Co., Morzhovoi Bay; and Valdez Packing Co., Valdez. 

 Those in western Alaska were the Fidalgo Island Packing Co. and 

 the Phoenix Packing Co., both at Herendeen Bay. 



Included in the above list are three canneries that operated in 1916, 

 but were not then engaged in salmon canning, namely, those of the 

 Alaska Herring & Sardine Co., the Alaska Pac^c Herring Co., and the 

 Lighthouse Canning Co. 



