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Investment in the Alaska Halibut Fisheries in 1917. 



Items. 



Fishing vessels: 

 Steamer and gas. 



Tonnage 



SaiUng 



Tonnage 



Launches 



Outfit 



Num- 

 ber. 



136 



2,536 



1 



2,247 



Value. 



153,000 



2,892 

 750,000 



Items. 



Dorics and scows 



Fishing apparatus 



Shore and fixed property. 



Total. 



Num- 

 ber. 



Value, 



$18,800 

 57,105 

 265, 100 



Persons Engaged in the Alaska Halibut Fisheries in 1917. 



Products of the Alaska Halibut Fishery in 1917. 



The following additional statistics of the Pacific halibut industry- 

 were submitted by E. J. Brown, local agent of the Bureau at Seattle, 

 who, in January, 1918, visited the important halibut fishing centers 

 of Alaska and British Columbia : 



Halibut Landings at Principal Ports of the North Pacific, 1912 to 1917. 



