62 PACIFIC SALMON FISHERIES. 
In 1908 Osmund & Andersen established a saltery at Thin Point 
and operated it in 1908, 1909, and 1910. 
In 1911 the Pacific American Fisheries built a cannery at King 
Cove, on the south side of the Alaska Peninsula, a few miles east of 
Thin Point, and in the fall purchased the saltery. The cannery was 
operated in 1911 and each year since. 
SHUMAGIN AND SANNAK ISLANDS. 
Small salteries have been operated at different places on the Shu- 
magin and Sannak groups. The plants have usually been rude and 
primitive affairs and were operated whenever the price of salted 
salmon was high enough to justify same. As the ownership, and the 
location in many instances changed frequently, no attempt has been 
made even to list them. 
BERING SEA. 
The great redfish producing section of the world is in the Bristol 
Bay section of Bering Sea. This bay lies in the eastern section of 
Bering Sea, inside of a line drawn from Port Moller to Cape Newen- 
ham, and a number of important rivers debouch into it, in all of 
which the annual runs of salmon, especially reds, are important. 
Bristol Bay is considerably off the line of steamship travel, and as 
a result the companies operating here are compelled to have ships in 
which to bring up their employees and supplies in the spring and to 
take back the men and prepared products in the late summer or 
early fall when the season has ended. 
Cannery ships belonging to the Nushagak plants are taken into the 
bay and anchored as near the canneries as possible. Owing to shoals 
this can not be done on Kvichak Bay and the Naknek and Ugaguk 
Rivers. In the early days of the fisheries the ships running to the 
latter canneries were brought as close to the plants as possible, un- 
loaded by means of scows, and then taken to the Nushagak for shelter. 
When their numbers were too great to permit of this they were 
moored in the open about 5 miles off the point separating Kvichak 
Bay and Naknek River, where the anchorage is good and the vessels 
have very little trouble in riding out storms. Usually the captain 
and a boy are left aboard the ship. 
NUSHAGAK RIVER AND BAY. 
The Nushagak River, sometimes called the Tahlekuk, with its 
tributaries, and the Wood River, which enters the head of Nushagak 
Bay close by the mouth of the Nushagak, form a favorite resort of 
the red salmon, while all other species also ascend them. 
But little is known of the upper courses of the Nushagak River, 
except that they drain the region between Lakes Clark and Iliamna 
on the east and the Kuskokwim on the west. 
