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COMMERCIAL FISHERIES REVIEW 



Vol. 28, No. 7 



While the plants primarily process crab, 

 there are plans to expand at least one plant 

 into processing shrimp, ocean perch, and 

 other fish species. Local officials state that 

 inadequate housing and commercial facilities 

 are holding back growth of the industry. The 

 absence of family quarters results in a high 

 turnover of employees. 



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NEW FISH-PROCESSING PLANTS 

 AT KOTZEBUE AND GOLOVIN: 



The Small Business Administration (SBA) 

 has approved a $350,000 loan to an Anchorage 

 firm for the construction of fish-processing 

 plants at Kotzebue and Golovin. The funds 

 will also be used for the purchase of 2 tender 

 boats and 2 floating fish-dressing stations. 

 The loan, being made to the Anchorage De- 

 velopment Corporation, will create an esti- 

 mated 24 new jobs. 



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NEW VESSEL FOR KING CRAB FISHERY : 



A new crab vessel, the Peggy Jo, stopped 

 in Ketchikan this past April for fuel and a 

 brief visit on her maiden voyage to Kodiak. 

 This is the first new vessel designed and 

 built specifically for the Alaskan king crab 

 industry. She is 100 feet long, 28 feet wide, 

 has a draft of 12 feet, and cost near $300,000. 

 Several other new crab vessels are now un- 

 der construction. 



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FISHERY SCIENTISTS ORGANIZE: 



Alaska now has its own district organiza- 

 tion of the American Institute of Fishery Re- 

 search Biologists. Elected to head up the 

 new organization of professional scientists 

 were: T. R. Merrell, Bureau of Commercial 

 Fisheries, U. S. Department of the Interior, 

 as director; W. H, Noerenberg, Alaska De- 

 partment of Fish and Game, as vice director; 

 and W. L. Sheridan, U. S. Forest Service, as 

 secretary -treasurer. 



The parent organization has over 400 

 members, mostly in the United States, al- 

 though some live in Europe, South America, 

 Asia, and Africa. The goals of the Institute 

 are to advance the theory and practice of 

 fishery science by biologists and fishery man- 

 agers and to maintain high standards among 

 fishery scientists by recognition of achieve- 

 ment and by adherence to a code of profes- 

 sional ethics. 



Alaska is a mother lode of natural fishery 

 resources and there are many problems re- 

 lated to those resources. Members of the 

 new District of the American Institute of Fish- 

 ery Research Biologists hope that they may 

 further the goals of fishery science and con- 

 servation. The District has already estab- 

 lished its own committees on Conservation 

 Education, Federal and State Fishery Legis- 

 lation, and Professional Standards among fish- 

 ery biologists. 



Alaska Fisheries Explorations 

 and Gear Development 



SHRIMP BEHAVIOR - 



TRAP STUDIES COMPLETED: 



Two months of shrimp behavior trap stud- 

 ies at Little Port Walters were completed 

 this past April by staff members of the U. S. 

 Bureau of Commercial Fisheries. Informa- 

 tion gained was being put to immediate use 

 in modifying shrimp pots for spring field op- 

 erations. 



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VESSEL CHARTERED FOR 

 SHRIMP EXPLORATIONS: 



The fishing vessel Little Lady o f Peters- 

 burg, chartered by the U. S. Bureau of Com- 

 mercial Fisheries, began a 54-day cruise in 

 April 1966 for shrimp exploratory fishing 

 and gear research. Activities will be concen- 

 trated in the southern part of Prince of Wales 

 Island, particularly the Cordova Bay area. 



Alaska Fisheries Investigations 



SALMON EGG SURVIVAL 

 RATES MAY BE IMPROVING: 



Pending more complete information which 

 will not be available until the persistence of 

 excessive ice and snow on Olsen Creek is 

 gone, the survival of salmon eggs in the post- 

 earthquake intertidal zone may be showing 

 signs of improving. Based on samples taken 

 in April 1966, the overwinter survival rates 

 of both pink and chum salmon eggs in the up- 

 per intertidal zone was considerably higher 

 than for the first year after the earthquake 

 in 1965. Further, the upper intertidal 1966 

 survival rates were similar to the pre -earth- 



