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  ALASKA 
  FISHERIES 
  AND 
  FUR 
  INDUSTRIES 
  IN 
  1914. 
  

  

  Summary 
  of 
  Products 
  of 
  the 
  Alaska 
  Fisheries 
  in 
  1914. 
  

  

  Products. 
  

  

  Quantity. 
  

  

  Value. 
  

  

  Salmon: 
  

  

  Canned 
  

  

  Mild 
  cured 
  

  

  Pickled 
  

  

  Fresh 
  ( 
  including 
  local) 
  

  

  Frozen 
  

  

  Dry-salted 
  

  

  Dried, 
  pickled, 
  and 
  smoked 
  backs. 
  

   Halibut: 
  

  

  Fresh 
  (including 
  local) 
  

  

  Frozen 
  

  

  Drv-salted 
  

  

  Fletched 
  , 
  

  

  Cod. 
  

  

  ...cases, 
  

   .pounds. 
  

   .Ijarrels. 
  

   .pounds. 
  

   ....do... 
  

   ....do... 
  

   ....do... 
  

  

  Herring 
  

  

  Herring 
  oil 
  

  

  Herring 
  fertilizer 
  

  

  Whale 
  oil 
  

  

  Sperm 
  oil 
  

  

  Whale 
  fertilizer 
  

  

  AVhalebone 
  

  

  Trout 
  

  

  Black 
  cod 
  

  

  Clams 
  

  

  Miscellaneous 
  fresh 
  fish, 
  local. 
  . 
  . 
  

  

  By-products 
  oil 
  

  

  By-products 
  fertilizer 
  and 
  meal. 
  

  

  ....do... 
  

   ....do... 
  

   ....do... 
  

   ....do... 
  

   ....do... 
  

   ....do... 
  

   .gallons, 
  

   .pounds, 
  

   .gallons. 
  

   ....do... 
  

   .pounds. 
  

   ....do... 
  

   ....do... 
  

   ....do... 
  

   ....do... 
  

   ....do... 
  

   .gallons. 
  

   .pounds. 
  

  

  4,056,653 
  

  

  3,272,800 
  

  

  26, 
  362 
  

  

  1,934,733 
  

  

  228, 
  528 
  

  

  12,200 
  

  

  40,000 
  

  

  10,223,355 
  

  

  4,437,468 
  

  

  346, 
  170 
  

  

  50,804 
  

  

  15,045,378 
  

  

  6, 
  374, 
  780 
  

  

  192, 
  662 
  

  

  1,926,000 
  

  

  632,400 
  

  

  162,750 
  

  

  2,122,000 
  

  

  35,000 
  

  

  96, 
  606 
  

  

  87,573 
  

  

  2,880 
  

  

  75,000 
  

  

  4,850 
  

  

  308,000 
  

  

  , 
  920, 
  589 
  

  

  300,052 
  

  

  252,662 
  

  

  74,375 
  

  

  8,551 
  

  

  810 
  

  

  1,490 
  

  

  557,485 
  

  

  215,744 
  

  

  6,697 
  

  

  2,831 
  

  

  438, 
  208 
  

  

  60,610 
  

  

  38,532 
  

  

  24,075 
  

  

  182,690 
  

  

  66,727 
  

  

  41,682 
  

  

  26, 
  250 
  

  

  5,758 
  

  

  4,743 
  

  

  300 
  

  

  6,000 
  

  

  1,188 
  

  

  4,926 
  

  

  Total. 
  

  

  21,242,975 
  

  

  SALMON 
  INDUSTRY. 
  

  

  In 
  reviewing 
  the 
  salmon 
  industry 
  of 
  Alaska 
  for 
  1914, 
  several 
  

   notable 
  features 
  at 
  once 
  arrest 
  attention. 
  The 
  most 
  important 
  perhaps 
  

   of 
  these 
  is 
  the 
  remarkable 
  pack 
  of 
  red 
  salmon 
  in 
  the 
  Bristol 
  Bay 
  

   region. 
  This 
  is 
  the 
  third 
  consecutive 
  season 
  for 
  a 
  large 
  pack 
  of 
  reds 
  

   on 
  Bristol 
  Bay 
  and 
  exceeded 
  all 
  anticipations, 
  for, 
  judging 
  by 
  pre- 
  

   vious 
  experiences, 
  a 
  lighter 
  run 
  was 
  to 
  be 
  expected, 
  especially 
  since 
  

   the 
  runs 
  of 
  1909 
  and 
  1910, 
  as 
  judged 
  by 
  the 
  catch, 
  were 
  not 
  large. 
  

   Thus, 
  upon 
  the 
  assumption 
  that 
  salmon 
  return 
  in 
  the 
  fourth 
  and 
  fifth 
  

   years, 
  it 
  would 
  not 
  have 
  been 
  surprising 
  if 
  1914 
  had 
  been 
  a 
  lean 
  season. 
  

   The 
  approximate 
  catch 
  of 
  red. 
  salmon 
  in 
  the 
  Bristol 
  Bay 
  region 
  in 
  

   1909 
  was 
  15,600,000 
  and 
  in 
  1910 
  it 
  was 
  11,600,000. 
  In 
  1911 
  it 
  

   dropped 
  to 
  9,000,000, 
  but 
  in 
  1912 
  developed 
  the 
  surprising 
  total 
  of 
  

   19,900,000. 
  In 
  1913 
  the 
  number 
  mcreased 
  stiU 
  more 
  to 
  21,500,000 
  

   and 
  in 
  1914 
  it 
  was 
  20,900,000. 
  These 
  increases 
  in 
  catch 
  in 
  the 
  last 
  

   three 
  years 
  are 
  not 
  due 
  to 
  any 
  particularly 
  great 
  expansion 
  of 
  opera- 
  

   tions, 
  but 
  seem 
  simply 
  to 
  show 
  much 
  larger 
  runs 
  of 
  salmon. 
  The 
  

   number 
  of 
  salmon 
  canned 
  in 
  western 
  Alaska 
  in 
  1914 
  was 
  greater 
  than 
  

   ever 
  before, 
  but 
  the 
  pickled 
  product 
  fell 
  off 
  considerably, 
  owing 
  to 
  

   low 
  prices 
  and 
  consequent 
  lessened 
  activity 
  in 
  this 
  hne. 
  The 
  facili- 
  

   ties 
  of 
  some 
  of 
  the 
  western 
  Alaska 
  canneries 
  were 
  taxed 
  to 
  the 
  utmost 
  

   during 
  the 
  run 
  of 
  reds 
  this 
  season. 
  

  

  Another 
  noteworthy 
  matter 
  in 
  1914 
  was 
  the 
  light 
  run 
  of 
  humpback 
  

   salmon 
  in 
  southeast 
  Alaska, 
  where 
  the 
  catch 
  of 
  this 
  species 
  decreased 
  

   nearly 
  50 
  per 
  cent 
  as 
  compared 
  with 
  1913. 
  The 
  take 
  of 
  pinks 
  in 
  cen- 
  

  

  