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latter and taken to the canneries by the run boats. The numerous 
shoals in the bay seriously impede both fishing and navigation. 
The first fishing operations on the Kvichak were in 1894, when the 
Prosper Fishing & Trading Co. and the Alaska Packers Association 
each established a saltery and operated that year and in 1895; in 
eee the latter purchased the plant of the former and consolidated 
the two. - 
In 1895 the Point Roberts Packing Co., which was owned by the 
Alaska Packers Association, built a cannery at Koggiung, the site of 
the former saltery, and operated it the next year. 
In 1900 there was a considerable development in this region. The 
Kvichak Packing Co., owned by the Alaska Packers Association, 
built a cannery on the northern point of entrance to Bear Slough, 
while the North Alaska Salmon Co. built two canneries about 1,000 
feet apart on the left bank of the Kvichak, about 6 miles above 
Koggiung. 
The latter company built a cannery at Hallerville on the Lockenuck 
River, a tributary of the Kvichak, in 1904. In 1913 a large new can- 
nery to take the place of the Hallerville plant was built on the lower 
side of Pedersen Point, lower down on Kvichak Bay. In 1916 all 
the plants of this company were purchased by Libby, McNeill & 
Libby and have been operated by that company since. 
The second plant of the Alaska Packers Association, known as the 
Coffee Creek ma was burned down in 1906. It was rebuilt in 1908 
and operated again in 1909, and has been operated continuously 
ever since. 
In 1904 the Union Packing Co. established a cannery on the left 
bank alittle distance above the canneries of the North Alaska Salmon 
Co., having moved this plant from its original location on Kell Bay, 
in ee Alaska. It was operated until 1907, when it was aban- 
doned. 
About 1905 the Northwestern Packing Co. built a saltery on the east 
side of the bay. In 1908 it was sold to and operated by Nelson, 
Olsen & Co., who in 1910 sold it to the Alaska Fishermen’s Packing 
Co., which the following year turned it into a cannery. In 1913 
Libby, McNeill & Libby bought this and the Nushagak plant, and 
continued to operate them under the old name. This cannery was 
destroyed by fire in the spring of 1915. It was rebuilt and operated 
in 1916. 
NAKNEK RIVER. 
But little is known of the Naknek River for more than 10 or 15 
miles from its mouth. It is said that the river is about 60 miles 
long, and has its rise in a lake which is of considerable size. With 
the exception of a short series of rapids, up which it is possible to 
haul a boat with a rope from the shore, the river is navigable for 
small craft. Shoals and banks, many of which uncover at low water, 
are abundant in the lower courses of the river. 
Red salmon is the principal species entering this river, although 
all the other species are to be found here in lesser abundance. They 
appear here a little later than in the Nushagak Bay. Only gill nets 
are used in fishing. 
The first commercial fishing on the Naknek River wasin 1890, when 
the Arctic Packing Co. built and operated a saltery on the east bank 
about 4 miles from the mouth. ‘This plant was sold to the Alaska 
