THE SALMON AND SALMON FISHERIES OF ALASKA. 
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localities, based upon the average packs of each cannery in 1889 and 1890. The 
estimated pack for the canneries interested was placed at 250,000 cases, and upon this 
estimate the apportionment of the work at each cannery was made. Under this 
agreement four of the eight canneries were closed, their quota being packed in the 
other four canneries as follows, viz, that of the Royal at the Karluk, of the Arctic-at 
the Kodiak, of the Aleutian Islands at the Hume, and of the Eussian-American at 
the Alaska Improvement. 
In the summer of 1891 the Kodiak Packing Company* and the Arctic Packing 
Company, both at Alitak Bay, also had a mutual agreement under which only one 
cannery, the Arctic, was operated, the quota of fish of the Kodiak being packed 
in the Arctic cannery. By these combinations the full pack of the Karluk district 
was made in half the number of canneries and the expense of packing very consider- 
ably reduced. 
Fish scow at clock, Chignik. 
In September, 1891, the Alaska Packers’ Association was formed to dispose of the 
unsold salmon of that season’s pack (some 363,000 cases), and five trustees were 
appointed to manage the business. This association was not incorporated, and expired 
after the salmon were sold. 
The successful operation of these arrangements led, in 1892, to an arrangement in 
which nearly all (thirty-one) of the canneries joined, entering under the name of the 
Alaska Packing (not Packers’) Association, for the purpose of leasing and operating 
and therefore controlling the canneries and reducing the Alaska pack for that year, 
it being found too great for the market’s demands. All the canneries in operating 
condition in 1892 were members of this association except the following, viz : Met- 
* Though the present approved spelling of the name of this island is Kadiak, the company retains 
the former spelling Kodiak. 
