BULLETIN OF THE UNITED STATES FISH COMMISSION. 
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The fisheries of this cannery were conducted over such a wide area and in such 
an irregular way that no accurate stream data is available. The crews were moved 
from place to place, as seemed to offer the best facilities and the most fish. Points 
130 to 140 miles distant were reached for fish to supply the cannery, and much 
enterprise was exhibited on this work. The following streams were fished, and the 
numbers taken by this cannery, where known, are given: Taku Inlet; North Stream, 
Stikine Delta; Blind River, Wrangell Narrows; North End, Wrangell Narrows; 
head of Duncan Canal; Redtish Bay, 34,000 redfish; Freshwater Bay, 25,000 redfish; 
Basket Bay, 30,000 redfish; Sitkoh Bay, 30,000 redfish; North Bay of Pillars; South 
Bay of Pillars, 6,500 redfish; Tebenkof Bay, 7,000 redfish; Shipley Bay; Rocky 
Straits, 25,000 redfish; Red Bay, 30,000 redfish. 
In addition to the plant at Petersburg this company operated salteries in con- 
junction with it at Taku Inlet, Shipley Bay, and Bartlett Bay, and also on the hulk 
Blanche , and as the men and material are interwoven with the cannery operations 
these salteries will be referred to and the statistics given as a whole. 
Bartlett Bay saltery is located on the abandoned cannery site of the Bartlett Ba} r 
Packing Company, once the property of the Alaska Packers Association, which, as 
previously noted, was the location first selected by the Iey r Strait Packing Company 
for their cannery. During the season of 1899 two white fishermen, on the part of 
the new company, prospected the place for fish and salted 200 barrels of salmon, 
which were marketed from Petersburg. 
During the season of 1900 regular salting operations were conducted here by the 
Icy Strait Packing Company, and at the same time buildings were erected for a 
cannery, in which machinery will be installed in the spring of 1901. The cannery 
will be operated that season. 
Shipley Bay saltery , which was formerly operated by Walter Ivosmikoff and 
located at the head of that bay (see my former report, p. 109), was acquired by the 
Icy Strait Packing Company and operated during the season of 1900. 
Taka Inlet saltery was built in 1897 by the present Alaska manager of the Icy 
Strait Packing Company on Taku Point, near the head of the inlet of that name. 
In 1898 and 1899 it was operated by the Quadra Packing Company, and in 1900 by a 
large force, with gear, from the Petersburg establishment. 
The hulk Blanche was used by the Icy Strait Packing Company for salting 
herring, and was moved in the narrows from point to point as occasion required, 
though generally located off Blind River. The company fitted out to salt 4,000 
barrels by the end of the year. The herring come to Wrangell Narrows in duly, 
and are found in that vicinity until February. 
The following are the statistics of the Icy Strait Packing Company, and in it 
are included the men, boats, gear, etc., employed in the salteries at Bartlett Bay, 
Shipley Bay, Taku Inlet, and on the hulk Blanche. 
Hands employed: 34 white and 24 native fishermen; 10 white and 42 native can- 
nery-hands, and 50 Chinese. 
Fishing gear: Five purse seines, each 120 fathoms long, 10 fathoms deep, and 
3 inch mesh; value, S3 per fathom. Five drag seines, each 120 fathoms long, 6 
fathoms deep, and 3-inch mesh; value, $1.50 per fathom. Two drag seines (for 
herring), ISO fathoms long, 15 fathoms deep, and 2-inch mesh; value, $3 per fathom. 
