THE FISHERIES OF ALASKA IN 1907. 
By Miztarp C. Marsu, 
Agent at the Salmon Fisheries of Alaska, 
and 
JoHN N. Coss, 
Assistant Agent. 
SUMMARIZED STATISTICS. 
As in the reports for 1905 and 1906, the District of Alaska is con- 
sidered in the four geographic sections generally recognized, as fol- 
lows: Southeast Alaska, embracing all that narrow strip of mainland, 
and the numerous islands adjacent, from Portland Canal northwest- 
ward to and including Yakutat Bay; central Alaska, the region on 
the Pacific, or south side, from Yakutat Bay westward, including the 
Aleutian chain; western Alaska, the shores of Bering Sea and islands 
in this sea; and arctic Alaska, from Bering Strait to the Canadian 
border. 
With the exception of arctic Alaska and a portion of western 
Alaska, all of the fishing localities were visited by one or the other of 
the agents. Statistics of the yield of fur seals from the Pribilof Islands 
were obtained through the courtesy of the agent at the Fur Seal 
Islands, while figures for the other aquatic furs (except the coast fur 
seals and sea otter) and skins, also the whalebone, walrus ivory, 
heads, teeth, and hides, were obtained from the custom-house records 
at Juneau. 
By far the greater part of the fishery products of Alaska are mar- 
keted outside the district, but a steadily increasing local demand is 
developing, although it absorbs as yet but an insignificant part of the 
whole. Salmon, cod, and halibut have been and are yet the prin- 
cipal elements in the yield, but more and more attention is being paid 
each year to the other fishery resources, although many of these are 
still totally neglected. 
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