FISHERIES OF ALASKA IN 1910. 45 



Products of the Southeast Alaska Halibut Fisheries in 1910. 



In Central Alaska 51,000 pounds, valued at $2,040, was marketed 

 in addition to above. 



PUGET SOUND FISHING FLEET. 



A fleet of Puget Sound power vessels visits southeast Alaska during 

 the months from October to March, when, owing to stormy weather 

 and a scarcity of fish, it is not safe nor profitable to visit the banks 

 near the home ports. This fleet makes its headquarters mainly at 

 Petersburg, at the head of Wrangell Narrows, shipping the catch home 

 from Scow Bay, near by, via the regular steamship lines. A few 

 rendezvous at Ketchikan and Juneau. This fleet was composed of 

 60 vessels, valued at $782,230, employed 1,800 men, and used trawls 

 valued at $70,S50. As a result of its operations in Alaska the fleet 

 (with the exception of the steamers) caught and shipped 3,531,644 

 dressed pounds (the round weight of this catch or the weight of the 

 fishes taken from the water was approximately 4,414,555 pounds), 

 valued at $158,260. The steamers carry their own catches to the 

 Sound ports and these have not been included in the above amount. 

 During the summer months most of this fleet fishes on the Flattery 

 Banks off the State of Washington, or else off the British Columbia 

 coast. 



THE HERRING FISHERY. 



ABUNDANCE OF FISH. 



At times herring are quite abundant along the coasts of southeast, 

 central, and western Alaska. At Captains Harbor, on Unalaska 

 Island, they appear twice each year, in July and September. Resi- 

 dents of Port Heiden, in Bering Sea, report that large schools visit 

 that bay in the spring and fall, and there is said to be a large annual 

 run at Atka Island. Herring are quite abundant in Port Clarence 

 also, and some fishermen located at Grantley Harbor, near the head of 



