36 FISHERIES OF ALASKA IN 1907. 
that section are capable of handling this enormous business. The 
vessels remain at anchor in the vicinity of their respective canneries 
throughout the season. 
Gill nets were the most numerous kind of apparatus used, the greater 
part being employed in western Alaska. Purse seines were em- 
ployed exclusively in southeast Alaska, while haul seines were oper- 
ated only in southeast and central Alaska. The number of traps 
operated was 70, an increase of 10 over 1906. Southeast Alaska 
increased its number from 29 in 1906 to 40; and central Alaska, from 
13 in 1906 to 15, but in western Alaska the number decreased from 
18 to 15. A new form of floating trap was operated at several places 
this year. The total investment was $8,419,930. 
There were 48 canneries in operation (22 in southeast Alaska, 8 in 
central Alaska, and 18 in western Alaska). In southeast Alaska the 
Hunter Bay and Quadra canneries of the Northwestern Fisheries 
Company, which had been closed for several years, were reopened. . 
In western Alaska the Bradford cannery of the Alaska Packers Asso- 
ciation, located on Nushagak Bay, and the Williams cannery of the 
same association, on the Ugashik River, and the cannery of the 
Union Packing Company, on the Kvichak River, were closed, while 
the reserve cannery of the Alaska Packers Association, on the Ugaguk 
River, was reopened, and a new cannery was built and operated by 
Mr. L. A. Pedersen near the mouth of Kvichak Bay. 
Vessets, Boats, APPARATUS, AND SHORE Property EMPLOYED IN THE SALMON- 
CANNING INDUSTRY IN 1907. 
Squineach Central Alaska. | Western Alaska. Total. 
Items. rn = I) = = 
pee Value. ea Value. pens Value. ea Value 
@anneriess-a2-22 4 se see eee Daihen s = Men S cee ace Teh ee acosesse ABS hee Sa eeees 
Transporting vessels: 
Steamers and launches. -| 57 | $357,600 23 | $238, 000 40 | $526, 802 120 |$1, 122, 402 
‘Tonnage. soieaeen IPS iey alee see 205s pee eee 2° 268 )e ce Seeeee 4,360 5|2 55 ee ee 
Sailing eee Seee ese 4 174, 500 8 235, 000 24 559, 500 36 969, 000 
Monnager-- saws. -e 6) G08) seeeeteee 2s SAi|esjowee cece SBS Plier ue oh ok 51, 7490) e ee 
BOgtsr ce cee ee nee eeeee | 644 94, 680 320 62, 333 852 278, 080 1,816 435, 093 
Apparatus: | | 
1 (WILSON Fae sas sooseoe 65 16, 150 37 aac Uy Reesoser Sbecseeaes | @102 31,555 
Pirserseines ess s5e- ese 111 41239 Weis Sou lesiee Sane ece ce eee ee |} 6111 41, 239 
Galli Metstemessemenenseeee | 132 24, 820 44 8, 100 769 | 58,203 c945 | 91, 123 
Dr aps AQes ses o> sees | 40 116, 650 15 | 24,550 15 |, 21,500 70 | 162,700 
SP@atS2cccos cee saceeccees 200 | LOH ee cece nic cfisraiateye ciststere eieiataleta sta] See arte 200 150 
Shore and accessory prop- | | | | 
BOY ot cc cn eee eee cats Aare 1, 836, 357 \edeccoed NOS GOS reciarararcis \2, 520,343 |.......- 5, 566, 668 
UL D0 if) Na a ee ester el se 2 2662, 140s ae mers = M3935 oO eres acai 13, 964, CP al ee aces 8, 419, 930 
| | 
a Aggregate length of 46,100 yards. b Aggregate length of 39,510 yards. 
c Aggregate length of 226,000 yards. 
Output.—The table of products shows, with size and style of can, 
the quantity and value of each species packed. Southeast Alaska 
leads in the total quantity packed, but is second to western Alaska 
