24 FISHERIES OF ALASKA IN 1907. 
and silver salmon caught, the bellies being cut from these fish and 
salted. Red salmon are generally taken in Ranch Creek, Kesuyak 
Bay, Eagle Harbor, and Malinof Straits, while the silver salmon come 
from Ranch Creek, Malinof Straits, and Kesuyak Bay. Humpback 
and dog salmon are found in abundance, but are not utilized. 
Uyak.—The only cannery at this place is operated by the North- 
western Fisheries Company. Heavy storms in the winter washed 
away houses on Karluk Spit, where seine crews are installed during 
the fishing season, and bad weather early in the season materially 
interfered with fishing operations in 1907. The cannery secured a 
full pack, however. 
Karluk.—The two large canneries operated here are owned by the 
Alaska Packers’ Association. A very good run of fish into the lagoon 
early in the season soon slackened and for some time the plants were 
behind their packs of the previous year; but later exceptionally large 
runs enabled them to make up the deficiency, and to ship, as early as 
July 30, the first full cargo of salmon to come out of Alaska in 1907. 
These plants likewise suffered from the previous winter’s heavy storms, 
but not so seriously as the Uyak cannery. 
Alitak.—The superintendent of the cannery at this place, which is 
operated by the Alaska Packers’ Association, reports the earliest run 
of red salmon known in eighteen years; and the run remained so 
exceptionally heavy that the cannery packed its full outfit for the 
first time in several seasons. 
Chignik.—It had been the intention to make a close inspection of 
the fish traps located in the lagoon at this place, in regard to which 
complaint was made in the 1906 report, but it was found impossible, 
owing to limited transportation facilities, to make the desired inves- 
tigation here without foregoing the more important trip to the west- 
ward. Last year the lagoon was apparently completely blocked 
with traps, three of which belonged to the Alaska Packers’ Association, 
three to the Northwestern Fisheries Company, and one was owned and 
operated jointly. The superintendent for the latter company states 
that the conditions have been remedied this season by changing the 
location of some of the traps and reducing the leads in others. The 
run of fish was very good nearly the whole of the season, and pros- 
pectors recently come from the lakes are said to have reported them 
full of salmon. Some dissatisfaction arose this year over the question 
of Sunday labor. The fishermen refused to work on Sunday except 
during the actual fishing, and the cannery employees, who receive 
much smaller wages, claimed the same privilege in vain. Owing to 
the shortness of the salmon-canning season in central and western 
Alaska, Sunday work has been universal. 
