﻿FISHERY 
  INDUSTRIES. 
  

  

  79 
  

  

  demand 
  for 
  red 
  salmon. 
  Recent 
  advances 
  in 
  the 
  science 
  of 
  salmon 
  

   culture, 
  including 
  the 
  planting 
  of 
  fingerlings 
  rather 
  than 
  fry, 
  will 
  

   make 
  hatchery 
  work 
  still 
  more 
  helpful. 
  Alaska 
  now 
  needs 
  at 
  least 
  

   five 
  additional 
  hatcheries, 
  two 
  in 
  the 
  Bristol 
  Bay 
  region, 
  one 
  in 
  the 
  

   Chignik 
  section, 
  and 
  at 
  least 
  two 
  more 
  in 
  southeast 
  Alaska 
  — 
  one 
  

   perhaps 
  in 
  the 
  vicinity 
  of 
  Sitka 
  and 
  the 
  other 
  on 
  the 
  Chilkoot. 
  

  

  GENERAL 
  STATISTICS 
  OF 
  THE 
  ALASKA 
  FISHERIES 
  FOR 
  1913. 
  

  

  The 
  total 
  investment 
  in 
  the 
  Alaska 
  fisheries 
  in 
  1913 
  was 
  $37,047,305, 
  

   a 
  decrease 
  of 
  $1,216,152 
  from 
  1912. 
  Approximately 
  85 
  per 
  cent 
  of 
  

   the 
  investment 
  was 
  in 
  the 
  salmon 
  industry. 
  The 
  number 
  of 
  persons 
  

   engaged 
  in 
  1913 
  was 
  21,721 
  as 
  compared 
  with 
  24,263 
  in 
  1912, 
  a 
  

   decrease 
  of 
  2,542 
  persons. 
  The 
  total 
  value 
  of 
  the 
  products 
  in 
  1913 
  

   was 
  $15,739,068 
  as 
  against 
  $18,877,480 
  in 
  1912, 
  a 
  decline 
  of 
  $3,138,412. 
  

   The 
  principal 
  item 
  in 
  the 
  decrease 
  was 
  canned 
  salmon. 
  

  

  Summary 
  of 
  Investments 
  in 
  the 
  Fisheries 
  of 
  Alaska 
  in 
  1913. 
  

  

  Industries. 
  

  

  Southeast 
  

  

  Alaska. 
  

  

  Salmon 
  canning 
  '$11, 
  946, 
  974 
  

  

  Salmon 
  pickling. 
  

   Salmon 
  mild 
  curing. 
  

  

  Herring 
  fishery 
  

  

  Halilnit 
  fishery 
  

  

  Cod 
  flsliery 
  

  

  Whale 
  fishery 
  

  

  Total 
  16,627,854 
  6,628,335 
  13,791,116 
  37,047,305 
  

  

  61,439 
  

  

  1,107,911 
  

  

  259, 
  725 
  

  

  2, 
  360, 
  025 
  

  

  891.780 
  

  

  Central 
  

   Alaska. 
  

  

  , 
  920, 
  255 
  

  

  88, 
  858 
  

  

  36, 
  360 
  

  

  1, 
  755 
  

  

  581, 
  107 
  

  

  Western 
  

   Alaska. 
  

  

  $13,474,441 
  

   295,080 
  

   21, 
  595 
  

  

  Total. 
  

  

  $31,341,670 
  

   445,377 
  

  

  1,165,866 
  

   261,480 
  

  

  2,360,025 
  

   581, 
  107 
  

   891, 
  780 
  

  

  Summary 
  of 
  Persons 
  Engaged 
  in 
  the 
  Fisheries 
  of 
  Alaska 
  in 
  1913. 
  

  

  Summary 
  of 
  Products 
  of 
  the 
  Alaska 
  Fisheries 
  in 
  1913. 
  

  

  