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BULLETIN OF THE BUREAU OF FISHERIES 
and that a saltery was operated at Hunter Bay prior to the establishment of a cannery 
at that place. This cannery was built in 1896, which year marks the beginning of the 
exploitation of runs of salmon, chiefly reds, in many localities of the Cordova Bay 
district that had not heretofore been fished, although the stream at Hetta Inlet had 
been fished regularly by the Klawak cannery for 10 years preceding this later develop- 
ment. Salteries were opened at Nutkwa Inlet and at Sukkwan in 1896, at Kasook 
Inlet in 1897, and at Copper Harbor in 1899, all of which appear to have ceasedoperat- 
ing before 1907. The Hunter Bay cannery was closed in 1904, 1905, and 1906, and 
occasionally in subsequent years. No increase in the number of packing plants or in 
the utilization of salmon occurred until 1912, when a cannery was built at Rose Inlet. 
The opening of this cannery resulted in the development of several new localities and 
a considerably larger catch of pink salmon than had ever before been made here. 
In 1921, the year of greatest depression the salmon canning industry has ever known, 
the plants at Hunter Bay and Rose Inlet were not opened, but a small new plant was 
