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ALASKA FISHERIES AND FUR INDUSTRIES IN 191&. 



tlie number of fathoms of gill nets of 4 per cent, and an increase of 

 14 per cent in the number of pound nets. In 1919 seines took 36 

 per cent of the total catch of salmon in Alaska; pound nets 42 per 

 cent; gill nets 19 per cent; and lines, wheels, and dip nets the remain- 

 ing 3 per cent. The catch, by apparatus, in 1918 was as follows: 

 Seines, 30 per cent; pound nets, 41 per cent; gill nets, 28 per cent; 

 and other appliances, 1 per cent. There was an increase in the 1919 

 catch by seines of 6 per cent, by pound nets of 1 per cent, and a 

 falling off in the catch by gill nets of 9 per cent. The following table 

 shows the proportionate catch by districts according to the principal 

 kinds of apparatus: 



Percentage of Salmon Caught in Each Alaska District by Principal Forms 



OF Apparatus. 



Alaska produced 58,172,665 salmon of all species in 1919 as com- 

 pared with 101,454,688 in 1918, a falling off of 42^ per cent. The 

 decrease in southeast Alaska was 12,095,965, or approximately 23^ 

 per cent; in central Alaska, 12,681,153, or 56 per cent; and in western 

 Alaska, 18,504,905, or 67 per cent. This is the largest shrinkage from 

 a previous season in the yield of salmon ever reported for Alaska. 

 In 1919, the decrease by species was 481,835 cohos, 1,981,698 chums, 

 22,421,386 humpbacks, and 18,637,334 reds. Kings increased 

 240,230. 



Salmon Taken in 1919, by Apparatus and Species, for Each Geographic 



Section of Alaska. 



Apparatus and species. 



Southeast 

 Alaska. 



Central 

 Alaska. 



Western 

 Alaska. 



Total. 



Seines: 



Coho, or silver 



Chum, or keta 



Humpback, or pink 



King, or spring 



Red, or sockeye — 



Total 



Gill nets: 



Coho, or silver 



Chum, or keta 



Humpback, or pink 

 King, or spring .... 

 Red, or sockeye 



Total 



Pound nets: 



Coho, or silver 



Chum, or keta 



Humpback, or pink 

 King, or spring . . . 

 Red, or sockeye . . 



Total 



414,341 



6,001,747 



10,459,348 



9,516 



1,087,611 



91,317 



696, 139 



736,662 



2,076 



1,491,915 



800 



98, 499 



13, .343 



4,826 



130,793 



18,032,563 



3,018,109 



248,261 



335,739 



249, 133 



93,692 



19,053 



401,561 



1,099,178 



794.053 



3,083,663 



13,700,123 



43, 963 



1, 725, 587 



19,407,389 



61,869 

 87, 432 

 58,049 

 17,646 

 1,580,602 



103, 419 



586, 190 



29,611 



234,782 



7, 232, 274 



1,805,598 



8, 186, 276 



338, 929 

 1,180,484 



645,287 



34, 863 



2,604,659 



325 



49,962 



2, 681 



26, 944 



349, 074 



4,804,222 



428,986 



506, 458 



6,856,385 



11,209,353 



16,418 



2,710,319 



21,298,933 



501,027 

 922, 755 

 181,352 

 271,481 

 9, 214, 437 



11,091,052 



1,133,307 



4,314,109 



14,408,091 



105, 770 



4,679,320 



24, 640, 597 



