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  ALASKA 
  FISHERIES 
  AND 
  FUR 
  INDUSTRIES 
  IN 
  1914. 
  

  

  With 
  the 
  exception 
  of 
  the 
  Admiralty 
  Trading 
  Co. 
  and 
  the 
  Skowl 
  

   Arm 
  Packing 
  Co., 
  which 
  were 
  closed 
  for 
  the 
  first 
  time 
  this 
  season, 
  the 
  

   foregoing 
  plants 
  have 
  not 
  been 
  operated 
  for 
  two 
  years. 
  

  

  Salmon 
  Catch 
  and 
  Forms 
  op 
  Gear. 
  

  

  In 
  southeast 
  Alaska 
  there 
  were 
  in 
  operation 
  136 
  stationary 
  and 
  41 
  

   floating 
  traps 
  in 
  the 
  salmon-canning 
  industry, 
  and 
  1 
  stationary 
  

   trap 
  each 
  in 
  mild-cure 
  and 
  pickling 
  operations, 
  or 
  a 
  total 
  of 
  179 
  traps; 
  

   in 
  central 
  Alaska 
  there 
  were 
  60 
  stationary 
  traps 
  in 
  the 
  canning 
  indus- 
  

   try; 
  and 
  in 
  western 
  Alaska 
  there 
  were 
  13 
  traps 
  devoted 
  to 
  the 
  canning 
  

   industry, 
  all 
  stationary. 
  Assembling 
  these 
  figures, 
  there 
  is 
  a 
  total 
  

   of 
  211 
  stationary 
  and 
  41 
  floating 
  traps, 
  or 
  a 
  grand 
  total 
  of 
  252 
  traps, 
  

   for 
  all 
  of 
  Alaska 
  for 
  the 
  year 
  1914. 
  In 
  1913 
  there 
  were 
  in 
  operation 
  

   231 
  stationary 
  and 
  36 
  floating 
  traps, 
  or 
  a 
  total 
  of 
  267 
  traps. 
  Thus 
  

   it 
  will 
  be 
  noted 
  that 
  in 
  1914 
  there 
  were 
  15 
  traps 
  less 
  in 
  operation 
  than 
  

   in 
  1913. 
  The 
  number 
  of 
  stationary 
  traps 
  was 
  20 
  less, 
  but 
  there 
  was 
  

   a 
  gain 
  of 
  5 
  floating 
  traps. 
  It 
  is 
  of 
  interest 
  to 
  note 
  that 
  southeast 
  

   Alaska 
  shows 
  a 
  gain 
  of 
  16 
  traps, 
  but 
  as 
  central 
  Alaska 
  fell 
  off 
  27 
  and 
  

   western 
  Alaska 
  4, 
  there 
  was 
  a 
  net 
  loss 
  of 
  15 
  traps 
  for 
  1914. 
  The 
  

   chief 
  place 
  of 
  this 
  dechne 
  was 
  at 
  Chignik. 
  

  

  The 
  total 
  number 
  of 
  purse 
  and 
  drag 
  seines 
  operated 
  in 
  Alaska 
  in 
  

   1914 
  in 
  the 
  salmon 
  industry 
  was 
  336 
  as 
  compared 
  with 
  238 
  the 
  pre- 
  

   vious 
  year. 
  This 
  gain 
  of 
  98 
  for 
  1914 
  may 
  be 
  accounted 
  for, 
  in 
  part, 
  

   by 
  the 
  presence 
  of 
  more 
  purse 
  seiners 
  from 
  Puget 
  Sound, 
  where 
  it 
  

   was 
  known 
  that 
  an 
  off 
  season 
  for 
  salmon 
  was 
  due. 
  Figures 
  for 
  the 
  

   proportion 
  of 
  catch 
  by 
  the 
  principal 
  forms 
  of 
  gear 
  show 
  that 
  in 
  south- 
  

   east 
  Alaska 
  the 
  total 
  catch 
  by 
  seines 
  dropped 
  from 
  48 
  per 
  cent 
  in 
  1913 
  

   to 
  47 
  per 
  cent 
  in 
  1914; 
  also 
  that 
  the 
  trap 
  catch 
  decreased 
  from 
  50 
  

   per 
  cent 
  in 
  1913 
  to 
  48 
  per 
  cent 
  in 
  1914. 
  The 
  proportion 
  of 
  the 
  catch 
  

   by 
  gill 
  nets 
  in 
  this 
  section, 
  however, 
  increased 
  from 
  2 
  per 
  cent 
  in 
  1913 
  

   to 
  more 
  than 
  3 
  per 
  cent 
  in 
  1914. 
  The 
  catch 
  by 
  lines 
  was 
  about 
  1^ 
  

   per 
  cent. 
  In 
  central 
  Alaska 
  the 
  seine 
  catch 
  decreased 
  from 
  47 
  per 
  

   cent 
  in 
  1913 
  to 
  36 
  per 
  cent 
  in 
  1914, 
  while 
  the 
  trap 
  catch 
  increased 
  

   from 
  46 
  per 
  cent 
  in 
  1913 
  to 
  56 
  per 
  cent 
  in 
  1914. 
  Also, 
  the 
  gill-net 
  

   catch 
  increased 
  from 
  7 
  per 
  cent 
  in 
  1913 
  to 
  8 
  per 
  cent 
  in 
  1914. 
  In 
  

   western 
  Alaska 
  the 
  noteworthy 
  feature 
  was 
  the 
  increase 
  in 
  the 
  catch 
  

   by 
  means 
  of 
  seines, 
  a 
  form 
  of 
  apparatus 
  first 
  used 
  to 
  any 
  extent 
  in 
  

   this 
  part 
  of 
  Alaska 
  in 
  1912. 
  The 
  proportion 
  of 
  the 
  catch 
  by 
  seines 
  

   increased 
  from 
  2 
  per 
  cent 
  in 
  1913 
  to 
  4 
  per 
  cent 
  in 
  1914. 
  The 
  catch 
  

   of 
  4 
  per 
  cent 
  by 
  traps 
  was 
  practically 
  the 
  same 
  both 
  in 
  1913 
  and 
  1914, 
  

   but 
  the 
  catch 
  by 
  gill 
  nets 
  decreased 
  from 
  94 
  per 
  cent 
  in 
  1913 
  to 
  92 
  

   per 
  cent 
  in 
  1914. 
  The 
  increase 
  in 
  the 
  seine 
  catch 
  makes 
  up 
  for 
  the 
  

   decrease 
  in 
  the 
  gill-net 
  catch. 
  Present 
  indications 
  are 
  that 
  there 
  

   will 
  be 
  a 
  growing 
  use 
  of 
  purse 
  seines 
  in 
  western 
  Alaska. 
  

  

  Of 
  the 
  entire 
  catch 
  of 
  salmon 
  in 
  Alaska 
  in 
  1914, 
  27 
  per 
  cent 
  were 
  

   taken 
  by 
  seines, 
  31 
  per 
  cent 
  in 
  traps, 
  41 
  per 
  cent 
  in 
  giU 
  nets, 
  and 
  less 
  

  

  