60 ALASKA FISHERIES AND FUR INDUSTRIES IN 1918 
SHORE STATIONS. 
Four companies in southeastern Alaska handled small quantities 
of cod in connection with other fishery busimess, They were the 
Booth Fisheries Co., at Sitka; Libby, McNeill & Libby, at Taku Har- 
bor; New England Fish Co., at Ketchikan; and the Ripley Fish Co., 
at Douglas, Ketchic am: and Petersburg. In central Alaska there 
were 15 operators, the important ones pee te Alaska Codfish Co., 
with stations at Unga, Kelleys Rock, and Delarof Harbor on Unga 
Island, Companys Harbor and Murphys Cove on Sannak Island, Dora 
Harbor on Unimak Island, and one station on Nagai Island; Shuma- 
gin Packing Co., at Squaw Harbor on Unga Island; Northern Fish- 
eries (Inc.), at Kodiak; and the Union Fish Co., at Pirate Cove on 
Popof Island, Unga on Unga Island, Northwest Harbor on Heren- 
deen Island, Pavlof Harbor on Sannak Island, and Dora Harbor on 
Unimak Island. In western Alaska cod were put up incidentally at 
11 shore stations operated by companies engaged chiefly in other 
lines of fishery business. In this connection mention may be made 
of the Akutan Codfish Co., at Akutan; Nelson Lagoon Packing Co., 
at Nelson Lagoon; and the Unalaska Atkafish Co., at English Bay. 
The most notable development in the cod fisheries of central Alaska 
occurred at Kodiak, where the Northern Fisheries (Inc.) established 
a shore station and caused some local activity by bringing in a few 
experienced fishermen, whose success in fishing the adjacent waters 
was sufficient to induce several natives and white men residing at 
Kodiak to also engage in cod fishing. Operations were necessarily 
restricted to inland waters, as no suitable vessels were available for 
offshore work. 
There is a great difference in the quality of cod taken from the 
various localities in this region. Sycamore Bay produces the best 
and largest fish, but it is easily fished out—that is, there may be a 
month of good fishing followed by one when no fish can be taken, 
then in the next month the catch will again be better. This disap- 
pearance of the cod is not understood unless it is due to tempor 
exhaustion of the food supply. As the food is replenished the fish 
return. Some of the cod taken in this bay are equal in both size 
and quality to those caught in Bering Sea, individuals weighing 30 
pounds or more being secured. As a rule, however, cod from these 
inland waters are rather undersized, many being accepted only at 
half price by the company. 
A total of 2,336 cases of canned cod were packed by the Pacific 
American Fisheries at its Port Moller cannery and the Nelson Lagoon 
Packing Co. at Nelson Lagoon. 
STATISTICAL SUMMARY. 
The Alaska codfish industry shows an investment of $1,271,118 in 
1918, which is a decrease of $137,147 from the investment in 1917. 
A total of 697 persons were employed, as compared with 795 in 1917. 
This fishery produced a tota of 14,062,960 pounds of cod, valued 
at $957,184. This is an increase of 285,490 pounds in production 
and $212,208 in value. 
