July 1966 



COMMERCIAL FISHERIES REVIEW 



13 



TRENDS 



AND 



DEVELOPMENTS 



Alaska 



HERRING-EGGS-ON- 

 KELP FISHERY AT CRAIG: 



The director of the U. S. Bureau of Com- 

 mercial Fisheries, Ketchikan Technological 

 Laboratory visited Craig, Alaska, this past 

 April to observe the harvest of herring- 

 eggs-on-kelp as a guest of the Alaska De- 

 partment of Fish and Game. The small com- 

 mercial fishery for that product is only 8 

 years old but herring eggs are a historic 

 food item among the local native people. The 

 product is harvested on three herring spawn- 

 ing grounds located near Sitka, Hydaburg, and 

 Craig. The Alaska Department of Fish and 

 Game has set a quota of 225 tons on the har- 

 vest. Approximately 100 tons were harvested 

 at Craig where 17 processors, 600 pickers, 

 and 350 boats participated in the 90 -minute 

 season. For the most part these were from 

 Southeastern Alaska; but one vessel, the 

 Fred p. Parr , and her crew of 28 were char- 

 tered from Seattle. The fishery yielded a- 

 bout 350 pounds of herring-eggs -on -kelp per 

 fisherman worth about $150 for 90 minutes 

 of work. The product consists of -|- to |- her- 

 ring eggs by weight and is said to normally 

 sell for about $2 a pound in Japan but that the 

 price reached $12 a pound during the year- 

 end holidays. 



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DENMARK IMPORTS 

 ALASKAN FISHERY PRODUCTS : 



The United States Embassy in Denmark 

 recently published a report on Danish im- 

 ports of fishery products. The report stated 

 that king crab, shrimp, and salmon account- 

 ed for most of the imports from the United 

 States in 1965. All the king crab and much 

 of the shrimp and salmon were of Alaskan 

 origin. The sharp rise in king crab and 

 shrimp imports by Denmark during the past 

 few years was attributed to special market- 

 ing efforts. 



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LOGGING AND SALMON 

 PROBLEMS DISCUSSED: 



Mutual problems arising from the effects 

 of the expanding logging industry in Alaska on 

 salmon resources were discussed at a Juneau 

 meeting between regional officials of the U. S. 

 Bureau of Commercial Fisheries and a cor- 

 responding staff from the U. S. Forest Service 

 management and research divisions. Summa- 

 rized information was exchanged on the status 

 of the salmon projects conducted by both serv- 

 ices in Alaska. The need for more attention 

 to those problems was brought into focus and 

 it was agreed that a much increased liaison 

 will be organized in Alaska between the Fed- 

 eral and state agencies concerned. 



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INTEREST IN SEWARD'S 

 FISHERIES POTENTIAL: 



A former Seward resident, who is engaged 

 in the general investment and import busi- 

 ness in Seattle, discussed with U. S. Bureau 

 of Commercial Fisheries exploratory fishing 

 personnel the possibilities for a bottomfish 

 processing plant in Seward. The Seattlebusi- 

 nessman heads a group of local investors 

 anxious to put Seward back into the fishing 

 industry. 



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NAVY TO RELEASE DUTCH HARBOR 

 BUILDINGS FOR HOUSING 



NEEDS AT UNALASKA.: 



Senator Bartlett announced in his April 7, 

 1966, Washington Report, that certain facilities 

 at the U. S. Navy Department's Dutch Harbor 

 station would be made available for commer- 

 cial use and that the Navy has agreed to per- 

 mit area residents to move housing quarters 

 from the base for reconstruction on civilian 

 property. 



There are 4 permanent and 3 floating shell- 

 fish-processing plants at Unalaska. Each op- 

 eration employs between 35 and 125 persons. 



