﻿FISHERY 
  INDUSTRIES. 
  

  

  99 
  

  

  Salmon 
  Taken 
  in 
  1913, 
  by 
  Species 
  and 
  Apparatus, 
  for 
  each 
  Geographic 
  Sec- 
  

   tion 
  OP 
  Alaska. 
  

  

  Apparatus 
  and 
  species. 
  

  

  Southeast 
  

   Alaska. 
  

  

  Central 
  

   Alaska. 
  

  

  Western 
  

   Alaska. 
  

  

  Total. 
  

  

  Seines: 
  

  

  Coho 
  , 
  or 
  silver 
  

  

  Dog, 
  or 
  chum 
  

  

  Humpback, 
  or 
  pink. 
  

  

  King, 
  or 
  spring 
  

  

  Red, 
  or 
  sockeye 
  

  

  Total 
  

  

  Cillnets: 
  

  

  Coho, 
  or 
  silver 
  

  

  Dog, 
  or 
  chum 
  

  

  Humpback 
  , 
  or 
  pink. 
  

  

  KingjOrspring 
  

  

  Red, 
  or 
  sockeye 
  

  

  Number. 
  

  

  168, 
  430 
  

  

  1,543,682 
  

  

  12,382,921 
  

  

  963 
  

  

  779, 
  877 
  

  

  Number. 
  

   28,466 
  

  

  6,868 
  

   1,013,714 
  

  

  1,534 
  

   1,835,283 
  

  

  Number. 
  

  

  17 
  

  

  1,964 
  

  

  142 
  

  

  523,805 
  

  

  Number. 
  

  

  196,913 
  

  

  1,552,514 
  

  

  13,396,635 
  

  

  2,639 
  

  

  3,138,965 
  

  

  14, 
  875, 
  873 
  

  

  2,885,865 
  

  

  525,928 
  

  

  18,287,666 
  

  

  116, 
  251 
  

   12, 
  193 
  

   16,317 
  

   47,271 
  

  

  347,000 
  

  

  2,365 
  

  

  3,159 
  

  

  5,102 
  

  

  22, 
  369 
  

  

  414,512 
  

  

  80, 
  935 
  

  

  272, 
  993 
  

  

  192,022 
  

  

  75,088 
  

  

  20,341,920 
  

  

  199,551 
  

   288,345 
  

   213,441 
  

   144, 
  728 
  

   21,103,432 
  

  

  Total. 
  

  

  539,032 
  

  

  447,507 
  

  

  20,962,958 
  

  

  21,949,497 
  

  

  Traps: 
  

  

  Coho 
  , 
  or 
  silver 
  

  

  Dog, 
  or 
  chum 
  

  

  Humpback, 
  or 
  pink. 
  

  

  King, 
  or 
  spring 
  

  

  Red, 
  or 
  sockeye 
  

  

  Total 
  , 
  

  

  Lines: 
  

  

  Coho, 
  or 
  silver.. 
  

   King, 
  or 
  spring. 
  

  

  291,731 
  

  

  973, 
  962 
  

  

  13,101,582 
  

  

  18,289 
  

  

  1,119,081 
  

  

  102,914 
  

  

  42, 
  780 
  

  

  101,403 
  

  

  45,947 
  

  

  2, 
  548, 
  701 
  

  

  7,000 
  

   67, 
  700 
  

   190,000 
  

  

  3,842 
  

   604, 
  917 
  

  

  401,735 
  

  

  1,084,442 
  

  

  13,392,985 
  

  

  68,078 
  

  

  4,272,699 
  

  

  15,504,645 
  

  

  2,841,745 
  

  

  873, 
  549 
  

  

  19,219,939 
  

  

  42,601 
  

   327, 
  675 
  

  

  42, 
  601 
  

   327,675 
  

  

  Total. 
  

  

  370, 
  276 
  

  

  370, 
  276 
  

  

  Dip 
  nets: 
  Red, 
  or 
  sockeye... 
  

   Bpears: 
  Humpback, 
  or 
  pink. 
  

  

  Total: 
  

  

  Coho, 
  or 
  silver 
  

  

  Dog, 
  or 
  chum 
  

  

  Humpback, 
  or 
  pink 
  

  

  King, 
  or 
  spring 
  

  

  Red, 
  or 
  scokeye 
  

  

  86,200 
  

   1,550 
  

  

  86,200 
  

   1,550 
  

  

  619,013 
  

   2,529,837 
  

   25, 
  500, 
  820 
  

  

  394,198 
  

   2, 
  245, 
  958 
  

  

  133,475 
  

   52, 
  807 
  

  

  121,769 
  

   69,850 
  

  

  884,696 
  

  

  88,042 
  

   342,657 
  

   382,022 
  

  

  79,072 
  

   21,470,642 
  

  

  840,800 
  

   2,925,301 
  

   27,004,611 
  

  

  543, 
  120 
  

   28, 
  601, 
  296. 
  

  

  Grand 
  total. 
  

  

  31,289,826 
  

  

  6,262,867 
  

  

  22,362,435 
  

  

  59,915,128 
  

  

  Figures 
  for 
  the 
  proportion 
  of 
  catch 
  by 
  the 
  principal 
  forms 
  of 
  gear 
  

   show 
  that 
  in 
  southeast 
  Alaska 
  the 
  total 
  catch 
  by 
  seines 
  dropped 
  

   from 
  50 
  per 
  cent 
  in 
  1912 
  to 
  48 
  per 
  cent 
  in 
  1913, 
  while 
  the 
  trap 
  catch 
  

   increased 
  from 
  47 
  per 
  cent 
  in 
  1912 
  to 
  50 
  per 
  cent 
  in 
  1913. 
  In 
  central 
  

   Alaska, 
  however, 
  the 
  reverse 
  occurred, 
  for 
  the 
  seine 
  catch 
  increased 
  

   from 
  40 
  to 
  47 
  per 
  cent, 
  while 
  the 
  trap 
  catch 
  decreased 
  from 
  50 
  

   per 
  cent 
  in 
  1912 
  to 
  46 
  per 
  cent 
  in 
  1913. 
  In 
  western 
  Alaska 
  seines 
  

   were 
  used 
  for 
  the 
  first 
  time 
  this 
  year, 
  except 
  in 
  an 
  experimental 
  way, 
  

   and 
  the 
  catch 
  thus 
  made 
  was 
  about 
  2 
  per 
  cent 
  of 
  the 
  total. 
  The 
  

   catch 
  by 
  traps 
  dropped 
  from 
  6 
  per 
  cent 
  to 
  4 
  per 
  cent 
  this 
  year, 
  

   and 
  the 
  gUl 
  net 
  catch 
  increased 
  from 
  93 
  to 
  94 
  per 
  cent. 
  

  

  Percentage 
  of 
  Total 
  Catch 
  op 
  Salmon 
  by 
  Three 
  Principal 
  Forms 
  of 
  Gear. 
  

  

  