November 1966 



COMMERCIAL FISHERIES REVIEW 



STATES 



Alaska 



SALMON PACK HIGHEST SINCE 1949 



Fishermen and processors will long re- 

 member the excellent Alaska salmon season. 

 It started with a 12 -year high; 95,000 case pack 

 of sockeye from the Copper River area. Then 

 the Bristol Bay sockeye run provided for a 

 pack of nearly three-quarters of a million 

 cases. 



And then came the heavy runs of pink and 

 chum salmon to Kodiak, Cook Inlet, and Prince 

 William Sound. For short periods, fisher- 

 men in these areas were placed on daily 

 limits- -some as low as 500 fish per day. To 

 relieve the pressure. Governor Egan invited 

 Japanese factoryships to come into Cook In- 

 let and buy excess salmon from the fisher- 

 men. In all, the Japanese purchased 220,000 

 fish. 



About the middle of August, southeastern 

 Alaska began to feel the impact of a tremen- 

 dous run of pinks and, to a lesser extent, 

 chums. On September 4, the pack of pinks 

 in southeastern Alaska totaled well over a 

 million cases. With a week to go in south- 

 eastern Alaska --and a total Alaska pack of 

 3,822,000 cases to September 4--it looks like 

 a 4 -million-case pack this year. One must 

 go back to 1949 to find a better pack. 



Based on comparative 1965 data, Alaska 

 salmon catch will total an estimated 330 mil- 

 lion pounds in 1966. 



JUNEAU TO GET CARGO TERMINAL 



The Alaska Steamship Company has ac- 

 quired 7 acres in Juneau to develop as a mod- 

 ern cargo -delivery terminal. The company 

 is scheduled to begin regrading and resur- 

 facing the plot that will be used as a van 

 marshalling area. The new terminal will 

 speed the handling of cargo to and from Ju- 

 neau. 



New York 



POLLUTED HUDSON RIVER 

 EXPELS LIVING THINGS 



Surveys during the 

 past 3 summers have 

 shown that the Hudson 

 River, polluted by in- 

 dustrial w a st e s and 

 sewage, is becoming an 

 "empty river." This 

 was reported on Octo- 

 ber 4-5 to a biological 

 conference in Tuxedo, 

 New York, sponsored 

 by the New York Uni- 

 versity Institute of 

 Environmental Medi- 

 cine and the New York 

 State Department of 

 Health. 



State, Federal, and 

 academic experts at- 

 tended. Many of them 

 agreed that the Gov- 

 ernment and the public 

 were aroused enough 

 to do something. The 

 experts believe that 

 the Hudson will never 

 be returned to its 

 former state, but in 10 

 years it may be clean 

 enough so that other 

 problems can be faced. 



Inpast 30 years, many 

 species of shellfish and 

 other creatures have 

 vanished from the Hud- 

 son. The salmon, 

 abundant in colonial 

 times, is gone. The 

 giant sea sturgeon, which 

 100 years ago fishermen 

 stacked like wood on the 

 wharfs, has become rare. 



There have been seri- 

 ous declines in inverte- 

 brate species living in the 

 river. The last survey of 

 river life, back in 1936, 

 listed 24 predominant spe • 

 cies of invertebrates -- 



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