54 ALASKA riSHERIES AND FUR INDUSTRIES, 1911. 



daily, and when they have accumulated enough to form a cargo a 

 vessel is dispatched from the home port or else a fishing vessel com- 

 pletes its fare from the station catch and carries the fish to the curing 

 establishments in the States. 



A. shortage of codfish on the Atlantic coast, as a result of which 

 considerable quantities of Pacific codfish were sold in that region, 

 very much helped the industry this year; otherwise there would have 

 been a surplus which might have caused a break in the remunerative 

 prices prevailing just now. 



One new company entered the industry this year, the Pacific Coast 

 Codfish Co., of Seattle, Wash., under management formerly connected 

 with the Seattle-Alaska Fish Co., which sold out its business last year 

 to the Western Codfish Co., of Seattle. The new company sent 

 north to the fishing banks the schooner John A. 



The Pacific States Trading Co., of San Francisco, which has been 

 out of the codfish busmess for a couple of years, resumed operations 

 this year, sending north the schooner Ottillie Fjord. In the fall the 

 company's station at Northwest Harbor was reopened, and it is 

 probable that two new stations will be established next year, 



A serious handicap under which the fishing vessels labor at present 

 is the lack of doctors in the sections of Alaska which they frequent. 

 These sections are very sparsely settled, and when a serious illness 

 develops aboard ship the captain has to cut short his trip and make 

 for his home port or else make a trip of several hundred miles each 

 way to the nearest doctor. The Revenue-Cutter Service operates 

 several cutters around the Pribilof Islands, and if these or an addi- 

 tional cutter could be directed to make periodical trips over the banks, 

 they could afford medical aid that would mitigate the suffering 

 amongst the cod fishermen and prevent the heavy financial loss 

 caused the owners through a broken trip. 



During a terrific gale the night of February 15, 1911, the Union Fish 

 Co.'s schooner Czarina, en route from San Francisco to the Shumagin 

 Islands, was wrecked on Nagai Island and became a total loss. The 

 crew was saved. 



Two cod fishermen were washed overboard and lost this year, one 

 from the schooner Jolin A and the other from the schooner Vega. 



STATISTICS FOR SHORE STATIONS. 



During 1911 the following shore stations w^ere operated: Alaska 

 Codfish Co.: Unga, Baralof (Squaw Harbor), and Kelleys Rock (Win- 

 chester), on Unga Island, and Companys Harbor and Moffats Cove, 

 on Sannak Island. John H. Nelson: Squaw Harbor, Unga Island. 

 Pacific States Trading Co.: Northwest Harbor, Little Koniuji Island. 

 Union Fish Co.: Pirate Cove, Popof Island; Northwest Harbor, 



