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Persons Engaged in the Salmon-Canning Industry in 1911. 



o Includes Mexicans, Filipinos, Porto Ricans, etc. 



Investment, wages, etc. — There were 64 canneries in operation — 32 

 in southeast .Alaska, an increase of 9 over 1910; 11 in central Alaska, 

 an apparent increase of 1 over 1910, but an actual increase of 2, as 

 the Alaska Packers Association cannery at Larsen Bay does the work 

 which had previously been done by the 2 canneries at Karluk, which 

 have been abandoned; and 21 in western Alaska, an increase of 2 over 

 1910; a total increase for all Alaska of 12. 



There were 154 steamers and launches over 5 tons, 63 under 5 

 tons, and 50 sailing vessels engaged in transporting supplies and the 

 pack and doing general work for the canneries. This is a decrease 

 in the number of vessels, but an increase in their size and value. 



All forms of apparatus, except haul seines and spears or gaffs, show 

 increases over 1910. The increases are especially noticeable in 

 purse seines, gill nets, and traps. The number of traps in southeast 

 Alaska was almost doubled. In the case of the other apparatus it 

 will be noted that while the number of haul seines fell from 104 to 86 

 the yardage decreased only 1,532 yards. In the case of the purse 

 seines the increase in yardage is not quite sm great as the increase in 

 number, indicating the use of a slightly shorter seine on the average. 



