﻿ALASKA 
  FISHERIES 
  AND 
  FUR 
  INDUSTRIES 
  IN 
  19 
  13. 
  

  

  GENERAL 
  ADMINISTRATIVE 
  REPORT. 
  

  

  By 
  Barton 
  Warren 
  Evermann, 
  

   Chief, 
  Alaska 
  Fisheries 
  Service. 
  

  

  As 
  in 
  the 
  annual 
  reports 
  of 
  the 
  Alaska 
  Fisheries 
  Service 
  for 
  1911 
  

   and 
  1912, 
  the 
  reports 
  on 
  the 
  fur-seal 
  service, 
  the 
  Alaska 
  salmon 
  and 
  

   other 
  fisheries, 
  and 
  the 
  minor 
  /ur 
  industries 
  are 
  combined 
  in 
  one 
  

   general 
  report. 
  

  

  The 
  returns 
  from 
  these 
  industries 
  in 
  1913 
  may 
  be 
  stated 
  as 
  follows: 
  

  

  Fisheries 
  $15,739,068 
  

  

  Pribilof 
  furs 
  (seal 
  and 
  fox) 
  83, 
  667 
  

  

  Minor 
  furs 
  678,062 
  

  

  Total 
  16,500,797 
  

  

  For 
  the 
  fisheries 
  the 
  figures 
  are 
  less 
  than 
  for 
  last 
  year, 
  when 
  the 
  

   value 
  was 
  $18,877,480; 
  and 
  as 
  1913 
  was 
  the 
  first 
  year 
  of 
  the 
  five- 
  

   year 
  close 
  season 
  on 
  the 
  Pribilofs, 
  the 
  catch 
  of 
  seals 
  was 
  arbitrarily 
  

   reduced 
  to 
  such 
  number 
  as 
  the 
  natives 
  required 
  for 
  food. 
  The 
  value 
  

   of 
  the 
  seal 
  catch 
  was 
  tiius 
  only 
  S66,095, 
  as 
  compared 
  with 
  $141,290.32 
  

   in 
  1912, 
  and 
  this 
  with 
  an 
  also 
  lessened 
  take 
  of 
  foxes, 
  valued 
  at 
  

   $17,572, 
  against 
  $22,209.91 
  in 
  1912, 
  totals 
  only 
  $83,667 
  from 
  the 
  

   Pribilof 
  Islands, 
  a 
  decrease 
  of 
  $79,883.23 
  as 
  compared 
  with 
  the 
  1912 
  

   total 
  for 
  these 
  islands. 
  The 
  minor 
  furs, 
  from 
  the 
  mainland 
  chiefly, 
  

   showed 
  an 
  important 
  increase, 
  from 
  $630,656 
  in 
  1912 
  to 
  $678,062 
  in 
  

  

  1913. 
  

  

  SALMON 
  FISHERIES. 
  

  

  INSPECTION. 
  

  

  The 
  inspection 
  of 
  the 
  salmon 
  and 
  other 
  fisheries 
  of 
  Alaska 
  was 
  

   carried 
  on 
  during 
  the 
  season 
  of 
  1913 
  in 
  accordance 
  with 
  the 
  general 
  

   plan 
  of 
  previous 
  years. 
  The 
  field 
  force 
  was 
  assigned 
  as 
  follows: 
  In 
  

   western 
  Alaska, 
  Assistant 
  Agent 
  H. 
  C. 
  Fassett 
  canvassed 
  the 
  fisheries 
  

   of 
  the 
  Kvichak 
  Bay 
  region 
  and 
  westward 
  to 
  Port 
  Moller, 
  and 
  Deputy 
  

   Fur 
  Wardens 
  G. 
  Dallas 
  Hanna 
  and 
  Claude 
  J. 
  Roach 
  carried 
  on 
  the 
  

   investigations 
  at 
  Nushagak 
  Bay 
  and 
  Wood 
  River. 
  In 
  central 
  Alaska 
  

   Inspector 
  E. 
  M. 
  Ball 
  was 
  on 
  duty 
  for 
  the 
  Afognak-Kodiak 
  region. 
  

   In 
  southeast 
  Alaska 
  Assistant 
  Agent 
  Ward 
  T. 
  Bower 
  conducted 
  the 
  

  

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