THE SALMON AND SALMON FISHERIES OF ALASKA. 
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the bark Harvester, 716 tons, crew of 12, valued, at $7,500; 2 lighters at $350 each; 12 
seine boats at $100 each. The number of lishermeii and cannery hands seems large 
for a small cannery, but it is tlie number given by the company. Some of the 
hands from their plant at Ohignik may have been brought here and credited in error, 
to both canneries. 
From June 14 to September 15 the firm packed 169,824 redfish, jnaking 13,375 
eases, an average of 12.7 fish to the case. Of this number 5,000 fish were taken in gill 
nets, and the rest in seines. They were taken at the Waterfalls and Slide, Uganuk, 
Little liiver. Bed Eiver, and Ayagulik, all on Kadiak Island. 
A few small streams carrying salmon flow into Uyak Bay and its branches, but 
none is known to carry redfish. 
LARSEN BAY. 
Five miles southeast from Uyak Anchorage is a narrow arm called Larsen Bay. 
It is 4 miles long, with a general east-northeast and west-southwest direction. Imme- 
diately within the entrance, on the 
northern shore, is the site of thecan- 
nery of the Arctic Packing Com 
pany, which was built iu 1888, and 
operated in 1888, 1889, and 1890,but 
which has been closed since the lat- 
ter date. In 1891, under the Karluk 
Biver Fisheries, its quota of fish 
was packed iu the cannery of the 
Kodiak Packing Company at Kar- 
luk. In 1892 it entered the pool of 
the Alaska Packing Association, 
and in 1893 it became a member of 
the Alaska Packers’ Association. 
In 1896 the available machinery 
was removed and utilized in the 
construction of the cannery at 
Uganuk. All that remains of the 
cannery is a large building used as 
a warehouse, the wharf, and a few 
sheds. A watchman is retained to 
look after the buildings, as the site 
has not been abandoned. When 
the cannery was operated the fish 
were obtained from Karluk, Little 
Biver, Waterfalls, and Slide. 
From the head of Larsen Bay it is not more than 5 or 6 miles to Karluk Lake, 
which a party of five attempted to reacli and failed. 
LITTLE RIVER. 
Little Biver, one of the fishing stations just mentioned, empties into Shelikof 
Straits about a mile to the westward of Cape Ugat. Hume Bros. & Hume and the 
Pacific Steam Whaling Company canneries at Uyak fished here iu 1897, and haveflsh- 
hou.ses located on the beach. The formation of the mouth of the river is similar to 
that at Karluk, but on a smaller scale. There is a small lagoon formed by a shingle 
Sketch of Vicinity of Little River. 
