58 PACIFIC SALMON FISHERIES. 
Uyak Bay.—Uyak Bay is on the northwestern side about the 
middle of Kodiak Island and is a considerable body of water with 
ramifying arms. On the western shore, near the entrance and about 
18 miles from Karluk, is Uyak Anchorage. The harbor is formed by 
the main shore of the island and Bear and Harvester Islands, and is 
frequently used as an anchorage by cannery ships and the steamers 
from Karluk during bad weather. As there are no red salmon 
streams in Uyak, fishing is carried on elsewhere. Most of it is at 
Karluk Spit. 
In the spring of 1897 the Pacific Steam Whaling Co. a Hume 
Bros. & Hume built canneries on the main shores at Uyak Anchorage. 
In 1901 both plants became a part of the Pacific Packing & Naviga- 
tion Co. and were operated by it. In 1905 the Uyak plants were 
purchased by the Northwestern Fisheries Co., and the same year one 
of the plants was destroyed by fire and was not rebuilt. The remain- 
ing plant has been operated each year since. 
Five miles southeast from Uyak Anchorage is a narrow arm called 
Larsen Bay. It is 4 miles long. Immediately within the entrance 
on the northern shore is the site of the cannery of the Arctic Pack- 
ing Co., which was built in 1888, and operated in that year and 1889 
and 1890, since which date it has been closed. In 1893 it became a 
part of the Alaska Packers Association and in 1896 it was dismantled. 
As the association had lost several ships while loading at Karluk, 
it finally decided to move its plants from that place, and in 1911 a 
cannery was built at the old site on Larsen Bay and from that time 
all cannery operations formerly carried on at Karluk have been per- 
formed at this plant. 
Uganuk Bay.—This bay is next to the eastward of Uyak. For 
several years a saltery was operated here by Oliver Smith, who sold 
it to the Alaska Packers Association in 1896. The same year the 
latter built a cannery on the bay. It made a pack im 1896 anda 
partial pack in 1897. This cannery was abandoned in 1900. 
Kodiak.—Salting operations have been carried on at this old 
Russian settlement for a number of years. 
In order to furnish work for the natives, the Alaska Commercial 
Co. and Blodgett & Blinn salted the catches made by them in 1906 
and subsequent years until 1912, when the Kodiak Fisheries built a 
cannery and has operated it each year since. 
The Woman’s American Baptist Home Missionary Society had 
carried on a home and school for native children on Wood Island, 
close to Kodiak, for some years. In 1902 the society established a 
salmon saltery here in order to furnish employment for the natives. 
No data are recorded in the official reports of further activities on 
the part of this plant. 
