COMMERCIAL FISHERIES OF ALASKA IN 1905. 7 



Quantity and Value of the Fishery Products of Alaska Marketed in Stated 



Years, 1868 to 1905. 



Species. 



Quantity. 



Prepared 

 weight. 



Value. 



Codfish (1868-1905) pounds. 



Halibut ( 1890-1905) do. . . 



Herring (1878-1905) do. . . 



Guano do. . . 



Oil gallons. 



Salmon ( 1868-1905) pounds . 



Sardines, canned (1904) cases. 



Trout (1904-5) pounds. 



Fish oil, other than herring (1890-1905) gallons. 



Fish guano, other than herring (1904-5) pounds. 



Clams, canned (1898-99, 1903-4) cases. 



Walrus ivory (1868-1905) pounds. 



Walrus oil (1868-1905) gallons. 



Whalebone (1868-1905) b pounds. 



Whale oil ( 1868-1905) b gallons. 



Beaver (1868-1905) number. 



Muskrat (1868-1905) do. . . 



Otter: 



Land (1868-1905) do. . . 



Sea (1868-1905) do. . . 



Seals: 



Fur (1868-1905) do. . . 



Hair (1868-1905) b do... 



Total 



156,125,684 



37,999,506 



10, 365, 877 



29, 319, 800 



4,281,420 



al,517,944,726 



3,173 



55, 382 



30, 486 



1,800 



1,137 



843, 930 



3, 064, 001 



246, 166 



26, 518 



150, 683 



251, 225 



93,272 

 107, 121 



3, 345, 784 

 191,042 



Pounds. 



116,511,629 



29, 630, 373 



7, 793, 885 



29, 319, 800 



32,110,650 



1,141,319,343 



152, 304 



44, 306 



228, 645 



1,800 



54, 576 



843, 930 



22,980,007 



246, 166 



198, 885 



150, 683 



31,403 



233, 430 

 535, 605 



20, 074, 704 

 573, 126 



1,403,035,250 



$4,072,626 



921,562 



202, 492 



349, 349 



1,055,368 



68, 818, 792 



12,059 



2,307 



8, 657 



30 



4,440 



343, 542 



1,582,219 



567, 417 



15,911 



752,011 



13, 123 



497,041 

 10, 732, 867 



47, 896, 383 

 194, 442 



138,042,638 



a Includes 21,784,106 cases of canned salmon, with an estimated value of $3 per case. 

 b Estimated from data covering a portion of the period. 



THE FISHING GROUNDS. 



The district of Alaska is enormous in extent, being equal to nearly 

 one-sixth of the United States proper. The total length of mainland 

 from southeast to northwest is about 1,150 miles, the greatest width 

 is about 800 miles, and the area is about 590,000 square miles. 

 Because of the thousands of islands scattered along the coast, or, as 

 in the case of the Aleutian chain, extending out to sea hundreds of 

 miles, the district has an exceedingly long coast line and one well 

 adapted to fishing, owing to the many large and safe bays, the shel- 

 tered channels between the islands and the mainland, and the numer- 

 ous rivers which debouch from the mainland. The Nushagak River is 

 to-day one of the important fishing streams of the world. 



Following is a list of the fishing banks of importance off the Alaskan 

 coast and in adjacent foreign waters so far as they have been discov- 

 ered and charted. Notwithstanding the extensive fishing in this 

 region, there are doubtless many fishing banks still unknown. 



