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  In 
  the 
  Shumagin 
  Island 
  region 
  Ross 
  Boye 
  and 
  others 
  put 
  up 
  

   several 
  hundred 
  barrels 
  of 
  salted 
  herring. 
  At 
  Craig, 
  in 
  southeast 
  

   Alaska, 
  C. 
  B. 
  Ferguson 
  smoked 
  several 
  thousand 
  pounds 
  of 
  herring. 
  

   At 
  various 
  cold-storage 
  plants 
  large 
  quantities 
  have 
  been 
  frozen 
  for 
  

   hahbut 
  bait, 
  the 
  New 
  England 
  Fish 
  Co., 
  at 
  Ketchikan, 
  having 
  

   engaged 
  in 
  this 
  phase 
  of 
  the 
  work 
  more 
  heavily 
  than 
  any 
  other 
  con- 
  

   cern. 
  The 
  fish 
  used 
  by 
  this 
  company 
  come 
  chiefly 
  from 
  the 
  north 
  

   Behm 
  Canal 
  region. 
  It 
  is 
  well 
  recognized 
  that 
  frozen 
  herring 
  are 
  ui 
  

   every 
  way 
  equal 
  to 
  fresh 
  herring 
  for 
  hahbut 
  bait. 
  Salted 
  herring 
  

   are, 
  however, 
  much 
  inferior 
  for 
  this 
  purpose. 
  

  

  The 
  Griffiths 
  Fish 
  Co. 
  operated 
  extensively 
  in 
  the 
  salt-herring 
  

   industry 
  during 
  the 
  faU 
  and 
  winter 
  of 
  the 
  current 
  season. 
  The 
  

   barges 
  America 
  (1,908 
  tons) 
  and 
  Louisiana 
  (1,436 
  tons) 
  were 
  anchored 
  

   at 
  Convenient 
  Cove 
  and 
  used 
  as 
  floating 
  plants. 
  Fishing 
  operations 
  

   were 
  conducted 
  in 
  Yes 
  Bay, 
  Spacious 
  Bay, 
  and 
  other 
  near-by 
  waters 
  

   of 
  the 
  Behm 
  Canal 
  region. 
  The 
  work 
  was 
  carried 
  on 
  mainly 
  by 
  

   Japanese. 
  Capt. 
  A. 
  W. 
  Thomas 
  and 
  H. 
  Sundsby 
  were 
  also 
  engaged 
  

   extensively 
  in 
  herring 
  operations 
  in 
  this 
  section. 
  

  

  Although 
  the 
  season 
  was 
  shorter, 
  the 
  catch 
  of 
  herring 
  by 
  the 
  

   Kilhsnoo 
  plant 
  was 
  very 
  satisfactory 
  this 
  year. 
  The 
  price 
  of 
  both 
  

   oil 
  and 
  fertihzer 
  has 
  improved 
  somewhat 
  because 
  of 
  the 
  hght 
  take 
  

   of 
  menhaden 
  on 
  the 
  east 
  coast 
  this 
  season. 
  Part 
  of 
  the 
  fertilizer 
  

   product 
  has 
  found 
  ready 
  market 
  at 
  San 
  Francisco 
  for 
  use 
  as 
  the 
  

   base 
  of 
  a 
  very 
  good 
  form 
  of 
  chicken 
  feed. 
  For 
  this 
  purpose 
  particular 
  

   attention 
  must 
  be 
  paid 
  to 
  reducing 
  the 
  content 
  of 
  oil 
  as 
  low 
  as 
  possible. 
  

  

  Last 
  January 
  at 
  Klawak 
  on 
  the 
  west 
  coast 
  of 
  Prince 
  of 
  Wales 
  

   Island 
  there 
  occurred 
  an 
  unusually 
  enornn 
  us 
  run 
  of 
  herring. 
  So 
  

   numerous 
  were 
  the 
  fish 
  as 
  they 
  crowded 
  into 
  the 
  bay 
  that 
  hundreds 
  

   of 
  thousands 
  or 
  even 
  millions 
  were 
  stranded 
  and 
  suffocated. 
  When 
  

   the 
  tide 
  receded 
  they 
  were 
  left 
  in 
  a 
  sohd 
  mass 
  over 
  the 
  beach 
  to 
  a 
  

   depth 
  in 
  places 
  of 
  several 
  feet. 
  This 
  is 
  an 
  evidence 
  of 
  the 
  abundance 
  

   of 
  herring 
  in 
  southeast 
  Alaska 
  during 
  the 
  current 
  year. 
  

  

  In 
  Norway 
  a 
  custom 
  has 
  long 
  existed 
  of 
  setting 
  a 
  net 
  across 
  the 
  

   mouth 
  of 
  a 
  favorable 
  arm 
  of 
  the 
  sea 
  or 
  bay 
  for 
  the 
  purpose 
  of 
  impound- 
  

   ing 
  schools 
  of 
  herring. 
  The 
  fish 
  are 
  thus 
  kept 
  alive 
  and 
  may 
  be 
  

   removed 
  at 
  leisure. 
  There 
  has 
  been 
  a 
  recent 
  tendency 
  among 
  fish- 
  

   ermen 
  famihar 
  with 
  this 
  custom 
  of 
  northern 
  Europe 
  to 
  apply 
  it 
  in 
  

   the 
  herring 
  fishery 
  of 
  southeast 
  Alaska. 
  A 
  specific 
  case 
  occurring 
  

   in 
  the 
  vicinity 
  of 
  Petersburg 
  last 
  winter 
  resulted 
  in 
  the 
  arrest 
  of 
  a 
  

   fisherman, 
  Rasmus 
  Enge, 
  who 
  was 
  charged 
  by 
  another 
  fisherman, 
  

   Nels 
  Husvig, 
  with 
  grand 
  larceny 
  on 
  the 
  ground 
  that 
  the 
  said 
  Enge 
  

   seined 
  up 
  2,000 
  barrels 
  of 
  herring 
  within 
  a 
  lagoon 
  where 
  they 
  had 
  

   been 
  impounded 
  by 
  the 
  net 
  stretched 
  from 
  shore 
  to 
  shore 
  by 
  Husvig. 
  

   The 
  matter 
  was 
  finally 
  settled 
  out 
  of 
  court. 
  

  

  