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Persons Engaged in the Alaska Herring Fishery in 1917. 



Products of Alaska Herring Fishery in 1917. 



o Includes 6,521 barrels, of 250 pounds, and 1,091 hnlf barrels, of 121^^ pounds, of Scotch-cured herring. 

 b Includes 8,557 ca^es, of one-half-pound oval cans at 90 cans per case, and 7,370 cases, of one-half-pound 

 ovals at 48 cans per case. 



WHALE FISHERY. 



SHORE STATIONS. 



The United States Whaling Co., at Port Armstrong, and the North 

 Pacific Sea Products Co., at Akutan, continued as the principal 

 operators in the whaling industry. The Beluga WhaHng Co., at 

 Beluga River, was the only other concern to engage in whaling, but its 

 activities were confined to the capture of belugas, or white whales, 

 in Cook Inlet. In the past similar operations were carried on near 

 Nome by Nygren & Torkensen, but there is no record that they 

 operate;f in 1917. 



The United States Whaling Co. operated the steamers Star I (133 

 tons). Star II and Star III (97 tons each), in whale killing as formerly. 

 The North Pacific Sea Products Co., in addition to the steamers 

 Kodiak and Vnirmik (99 tons each), and the Tanginak (71 tons), also 

 operated the power schooner Halcyon (61 tons), as a whahng vessel, 

 wiiile the barge Fresno (1,149 tons) was again used as a transporting 

 vessel. 



STATISTICAL SUMMARY. 



The investment in the whaling industry in Alaska in 1917 was 

 .§1,609,926, an increase of S51 8,455 over 1916. A total of 162 persons 

 was employed as against 233 in 1916. The value of the product was 

 ^654,852, which is a gain of S291 ,131 over 1916. Shore-station opera- 

 tions resulted in the capture of 423 whales, which is 34 more than the 

 take of the previous year. 



