28 THE FISHERIES OF ALASKA IN 1906. 



and operated by the Pacific-American Fisheries. A number of can- 

 neries that shut down last year reopened this season. The Pyra- 

 mid Harbor and Wrangel canneries of the Alaska Packers Association 

 resumed operations. The Northwestern Fisheries Company made a 

 pack at its Santa Ana cannery, which had not been operated before 

 since it came into possession of this company. The Porter Fish 

 Company, of Portland, Oreg., leased and operated the cannery of 

 the Kasaan Bay Company at Kasaan, which did not pack last sea- 

 son. This cannery was burned down just at the close of the season. 

 The Porter Fish Company also had an operating interest in the 

 cannery of the Shakan Salmon Company at Shaken. The Fidalgo 

 Island Packing Company reopened its plant at Ketchikan. The plant 

 of the Northwestern Fisheries Company at Yes Bay, which had not 

 been operated by that company, was purchased and operated by 

 C. A Burckhardt & Company. 



Before the season began a new cannery building was erected at 

 Dundas Bay, the machinery moved into it, and the old cannery build- 

 ing turned into a warehouse. The first red salmon was caught on 

 June 27, the first coho on July 1, and the first humpback on July 11. 

 The red salmon came in late and the run was not so abundant as in 

 previous years. The height of the season for both reds and hump- 

 backs was from August 7 to 12. The principal red salmon fishing 

 grounds on Cross Sound are Dundas, Bartlett, and Taylor bays, and 

 the trap in Icy Straits. On the outside, or ocean shore, the prin- 

 cipal red salmon fishing grounds are Kochtaheen, Serge Bay, Taka- 

 hanis, Cape Edwards, and Cape Spencer. The principal humpback 

 fishing grounds are Lizzianski Straits, Port Althi-op, and the trap 

 in Icy Straits. 



The only cannery at Yakutat is owned by the Yakutat and Southern 

 Railway Company. The principal fishing grounds are the Seetuck, 

 Anklen, and Ankow rivers, Ankow Slew and Yakutat Bay. A rail- 

 road 10 miles in length connects the cannery with Seetuck River 

 (also Ankow River, by way of Lost River, which the railroad crosses), 

 and the fish are landed from the boats and loaded on gondola cars at 

 certain places, thence to be hauled to the cannery by the locomotive. 



Red, humpback, and coho salmon are the principal species taken, 

 but few king salmon being secured. Humpbacks vary much in size. 

 Those from the Seetuck River average 12 or 13 to the case, those, from 

 the Anklen River 16 to the case, while those caught in Humpback 

 River, Yakutat Bay, run 20 to the case. The first red salmon taken 

 from the Seetuck River was on June 1 ; the first one from the Anklen 

 River was on June 4 ; the first from Yakutat Bay was on June 12, and 

 the first from Ankow Slew was on June 18, all much earlier dates than 

 prevailed in 1905. The first humpback was received from the Seetuck 

 River on June 19, an unusually early date. 



