COMMERCIAL FISHERIES OF ALASKA IN L905. 



43 



The following table shows in greater detail than the preceding the 

 number of cases (together with the size and style of cans) of each 

 species of salmon canned, and the value of same: 



Output of Salmon from Alaska Canneries in 1905. 



OTHER FISHERY RESOURCES OF ALASKA. 



By no means are all of the fishery resources of the district utilized 

 even yet. The lakes, streams, and coastal waters teem with the 

 steelhead, Dolly Varden, cutthroat, rainbow, and lake trouts, but the 

 steelhead is the only one shipped, a small quantity being frozen each 

 season. The lake trout (Cristivomer namaycush) is abundant in the 

 Yukon River, and large quantities are caught and sold fresh in the 

 mining towns along the river. Other fresh-water species are the com- 

 mon pike (Esox lucius); the arctic grayling (Thymallus signifer); 

 seven species of white-fish ( Coregonus) , nearly all of which are impor- 

 tant articles of food to the natives living along the rivers entering 

 Bering Sea and the Arctic Ocean, who generally catch them with gill 

 nets set under the ice and in traps; the inconnu (Stenodus mackenzii), 

 which attains a length of 5 feet and a weight of 50 pounds; smelt 

 (Hypomesus olidus), which are very abundant and used as food both 

 fresh and dried; burbot or losh (Lota maculatus); sucker (Catostomus 

 longirostris) , and the lamprey (Ammocoztus aureus), of which a vast 

 quantity is captured through the ice on the Yukon River each season 

 by the natives and frozen for future use. The eulachon, or candle- 

 fish ( Thaleichihys paeificus), is one of the best known of the anadro- 

 mus species, but appears to be abundant in Alaskan rivers only at 



