nSHERY INDUSTRIES. 



By Fred. M. Chamberlain, Agent, 



and 



Ward T. Bower, Assistant Agent. 



As in similar reports for previous years, the Territory of Alaska is 

 here considered in the four geographic sections generally recognized, 

 as follows: Southeast Alaska, embracing all that narrow strip of main- 

 land and the numerous adjacent islands from Portland Canal north- 

 westward to and including Yakutat Bay; central Alaska, the region 

 on the Pacific from Yakutat Bay westward, including Prince William 

 Sound, Cook Inlet, Kodiak region, t?hignik, and all of the Aleutian 

 chain of islands; western Alaska, the shores of Bering Sea, tributary 

 waters and the islands in Bering Sea; and arctic Alaska, all that 

 portion of Alaska facing on or tributary to the Arctic Ocean. 



In the following pages are given not only dettviled reports and sta- 

 tistical tables dealing with each of the various fishery industries, but 

 there are presented also reports on certain subjects which were the 

 objects of special investigations or inquiries made by the agent or 

 assistant agents. 



AFOGNAK RESERVATION. 



Under the regulations published March 21, 1912, permitting a 

 limited amount of commercial fishing in the reserved waters of the 

 Afognak Island reservation, 93 licenses were issued, 7 of these 

 to white men. This gave opportunity to the inhabitants to secure 

 employment for their labor and lawfully to make use of a natural 

 resource which might otherwise have been partly lost. About 

 160,000 fish of all species were taken besides those used at the hatchery. 



The insufficiency of the resources of the Bureau has hitherto pre- 

 vented an adequate patrol of this reservation. Persons not disposed 

 to obey the law have taken salmon from the unguarded streams more 

 or less continuously since the reservation was established. From 

 the best information procurable it appears that the salting of salmon 

 bellies for commercial purposes began about eight years ago and in- 

 creased from year to year, until in 1911 approximately 60,000 red 

 salmon were thus used. In addition to this number other fish were 

 used for domestic purposes. The total extent of this poaching is un- 

 known, and it was rendered uncertain whether any good results could 

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