SUN AND HARVEST OF THE SEA—SCH MITT 309 
in the more normal years a market value of between 19 and 20 million 
dollars annually. This same fishery for each of the 8 years previous 
produced on the average 30,000 whales per year. 
The world participates in the tuna harvest. This, in normal times, 
amounted to 675 million pounds of fish, of which the United States’ 
Milione of pounde 
40 80 
Red < 
King dg 0. 
Coho ALASKA O28} 
Ea Purchased in 1867 f Value of Alaska scl 
Chum ure) e "a or | ue O, asKa sclmor (EAS 
7.2 million dollars Kk in 1943 
Total annual catch BRISTOL 57.3 » anillios dollars ae 
130 million pounds BAY —7 
Japansse vessolo fished in Bristol Ray / \ 
Jrom 1950 to 1941 for king crabs, bottom i. V4 
fish, and to some extent for salmon. Z J 
Dy _-_Lk, _- 17s 
Millions of pounds ie Z 
o # 8 120 : 
Millions of pounds Ce 
Red re. 
King 2 | 
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Coko gi! 
Pink 3 | 
Chum 1 
Total annual etch Pe ol 
195 million pounds ty] 
WESTERN ALASKA 234 million pounds Rg 
SQUTHEASTERN ALASKA Total annual catch 
Millions of pounds 167 miilion pounds 
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Red NN BRITISH COLUMBIA 
King > acl 
Coho SEATTLE- -~ 
Pink Zifeso WASHINGTON 
Chum 
Total annual catch OREG 
67 million pounds ON 
PACIFIC NORTHWEST 
Millions of pounds 
- o 2 
; ah Red 
F y Ki ei 
7 ar CALIFORNIA 
Salmon Pink N 
Chum 
Total annual catch 
5 million pounds 
CALIFORNIA e 
Salmon Fishing Grounds 
Salmon Canneries 
Ficgure 5.—Salmon production and distribution, and location of canneries for 
the west coast of North America, with value of Alaska salmon pack for 1948. 
(Courtesy Fish and Wildlife Service.) 
share was 23 percent. The salmon represent the United States’ most 
valuable fisheries resource, in 1943 exceeding in value the original 
purchase price of the Territory of Alaska more than eightfold. 
The halibut harvest in Atlantic waters over the years dropped 
from a previous high of 14 million pounds to its present level of about 
