CONTENTS. 



GENERAL ADMINISTRATIVE REPORT. 



By Barton Warren Evermann and F. M. Chamberlain. 



Fisheries: Page. 



Inspection of salmon fisheries 6 



Complaints and prosecutions 6 



Salmon reservations 7 



General question of salmon fishery regulation 7 



Observations in Wood River region 11 



Afognak Reservation 14 



Proposed reservations 14 



Chignik Bay 14 



Marked salmon 15 



The Government and its relation to private hatcheries 15 



Need of new hatcheries 17 



Fur industries: 



Fur seals 18 



Sale of fur-seal and fox skins from Pribilof Islands 18 



Other fur-bearing animals 21 



Extension of Alaska Fisheries Service 21 



Problems of protection of fur-bearing animals 22 



Unusual mortality among fur-bearing animals 25 



Bears 26 



Wolves 26 



Sea otter 27 



Statistics of furs shipped from Alaska 27 



Permits to capture for breeding and other purposes 28 



STATISTICS OF THE FISHERIES OF ALASKA FOR 1911. 

 By John N. Cobb and F. M. Chamberlain. 



Summarized statistics 29 



Persons engaged 29 



Investment .' 30 



• Products 31 



Salmon industry 36 



Catch and the apparatus used 36 



Canning 38 



Conditions and events of the season 38 



Canneries in operation 41 



Statistics of the canning industry 42 



Pickling 47 



Ordinary pickling or salting 47 



Mild curing 49 



Fresh salmon 51 



Minor preserving processes 52 



Freezing 52 



Dry-salting and drying 52 



Smoking 53 



Cod fishery 53 



General conditions 53 



Statistics for shore stations 54 



Vessel fishing 56 



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