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COMMERCIAL FISHERIES OE ALASKA IN 1905. 



nished with fishing gear, boats, lodging, and food throughout the 

 season, and are paid either a certain sum per thousand for each 

 species of salmon (the price paid varying from place to place) or else 

 straight wages. At the end of each season the men are returned to 

 the point from whence they sailed. On account of this procedure 

 it has been found impossible to secure even approximately correct 

 data as to the cost of the fish as taken from the water for the salmon 

 canneries and the one guano factory, and their products have been 

 shown as marketed. So far as the salted salmon and herring and 

 other species are concerned, the data given is in the same form as 

 shown for other sections of the country in the reports of the Bureau. 

 The tables follow. 



Persons Employed in the Alaska Fisheries in 1905. 



Apparatus and Capital Engaged in the Alaska Fisheries in 1905. 



