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BULLETIN OF THE UNITED STATES FISH COMMISSION. 
Bay in the vicinity of Clark Point. The transfer is made to and from the canneries 
by large, specially constructed steamers, drawing from 10 to 12 feet of water, heavily , 
built and quite flat on the bottom, so that when they ground on the mud banks they 
may stand up when the tide leaves them, with cargo and vessel uninjured. The 
largest, built this year, the Kvichak , has a capacity of 32,000 cases, and the second, j 
the President , can carry 11,000 cases. 
In 1900 the Point Roberts and the Kvichak together employed 154 white 
fishermen, trapmen, etc., 38 white cannery-hands, 33 natives, and 447 Chinese and 
Japanese. The Alaska Packers Association has a physician in its employ at 
Koggiung, who attends the employees from Koggiung to Ugashik. There were on 
hand 100 gill nets for redfish — length, each, 75 fathoms; depth, 20 meshes, 6|-inch 
mesh; value, 65 cents per fathom. One trap, located on the eastern shore of the 
bay, about 12 miles below the Point Roberts cannery, had an inshore lead of 60 
feet, an offshore lead of 300 feet, with a 40-foot by 40-foot pot. The offshore lead 
was parallel with the shore and not more than 100 feet from it; value about $1,000. 
The. following vessels were emplojmd: 
Name and class. 
Tons. 
Crew. 
Value. 
Owned or 
chartered. 
Steamer Kvichak 
610 
13 
$200, 000 
Owned. 
Steamer Savak 
90 
4 
8, 000 
Do. 
Steamer Lillian 
19 
3 
9, 000 
Do. 
Launch Herbert 
5 
0 
4,000 
Do. 
Ship St. Nicholas 
1,687 
0 ) 
50, 000 
Chartered. 
Ship Servia 
1,736 
9 
55, 000 
Do. 
Ship Bohemia 
1 , 528 
’) 
55, 000 
Owned. 
Schooner (3-mast) Prosper 
229 
9 
15,000 
Do. 
1 Fishermen. 
The boats used were: 7 lighters, worth $800 each; 6 trap-scows, $100 each; 10 
skiffs, $30 each; 50 flat-bottom gill-net boats, $100 each; 2 pile-drivers, $1,200 each. 
The following was the output in 1900: 
Species. 
Cases. 
No. 
to the 
case. 
Dates. 
Point Roberts Packing Co.: 
Redfish 1 
99, 578 
12. 5 
June 23-July 25. 
King salmon 
341 
3 
Do. 
Cohoes 
297 
10 
July 20-July 25. 
Humpbacks 
Kvichak Packing Co.: 
1,676 
19 
July 15-July 25. 
Redfish . 
45, 200 
12.5 
J une 28-Aug. 1 . 
1 Salted: 92 barrels and 115 half-barrels of redfish, 50 trap fish, or 40 gill-net fish, to the barrel. 
These canneries obtain their fish by gill nets and traps. During the 1900 season 
but one trap was used — that referred to on a preceding page. In 1898 and 1899 an 
additional trap was used in the Kvichak River, about 15 miles above the cannery. 
About 30 per cent of the catch is made by this means. Preparations for salting 
about 1,500 barrels are usually made, but very few were cured in this way during 
the 1900 season. It is said that, in salting, trap fish run about 50 to the barrel, while 
gill-net fish run about 42, which is a marked illustration of selection by gill nets. 
May 20, 1898, the ship Sterling , with the outfit for the Koggiung cannery, was 
lost on the shoals off Cape Constantine. No lives were lost. 
