ALASKA FISHERIES AND EUE INDUSTRIES, 1911. 

 Investment in the Salmon Mild-Curing Industry in 1911. 



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Inclmles outfit. 



b Aggregate length of 56,950 yards. 



Products. — The pack this year amounted to 3,164 tierces, vahied at 

 $286,041, a decrease in quantity of 193 tierces and an increase in 

 value of $65,368 as compared with 1910. Fifty-nine tierces of 

 coho sahnon were packed tliis year, wliile none was put up in 1910. 



Products of the Salmon Mild-Curing Industry in 1911. 



Species. 



Southeast Alaska: 



King salmon 



Coho sal mon 



Total 



Central Alaska: King salmon 



Total: 



King salmon 



Coho salmon 



Grand total 



3,164 



Weight. 



Pounds. 



2, 502, 395 



49,228 



2,551,623 

 36,000 



2, 587, 623 



3,161 



280,041 



FRESH SALMON. 



As in previous years, large r{uantities of Idng salmon (mainly 

 white-meated and small red-meat ed fish) were shipped fresh to 

 Puget Sound ports, where they brought exceptionally good prices. 

 In addition, other species of salmon were shipped by certain of the 

 fishermen, this branch of the industry centering mainly about 

 Wrangell and Petersburg. Quite a number of salmon are also 

 disposed of locally to mining camps or through the markets in the 

 various towns. Most of the kings and cohos were caught by trolling, 

 while others were taken in seines, traps, and gill nets. 



A large number of cohos were caught late in July and early in 

 August m the bays along the lower part of Chatham Strait, and the 

 fishermen report that these had been feeding on shrimp, and it was 



