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BULLETIN OF THE UNITED STATES FISH COMMISSION. 
and became a member of tbe Alaska Packers’ Association in 1893. It is in such con- 
dition that it can be operated at short notice, and is held as a reserve. Its capacity is 
1,600 cases per day. 
These canneries are all owned and operated by the Alaska Packers’ Association, 
and are under one local management. In 1897 they employed 114 white fishermen, 38 
white cannery-hands, 30G Chinese, and 40 natives. Sixty gill nets were used, each 
125 fathoms long by 24 meshes deep 5 120 gill nets, each 75 fathoms long by 24 meshes 
deep; 4 traps with 300 feet leaders. 
The following vessels were employed : 
Rig. 
Name. 
Net tonft. 
Crew. 
Value. 
Steamer ..... 
Polar Dear. 
29 
.$12, 000 
4, 500 
3, 000 
1, 500 
Launch 
Tyone 
5 
2 
Do 
5 
2 
Du 
Corinne 
5 
SB ip 
StArlinp . . ... 
1, C37 
Pishermen 
30, 000 
Do 
Ecliii.se 
1, 535 
(?) 
(?) 
Chartered. 
Barken tine . . 
98 boats and 
Willie E. Hnnie. . . 
632 
Do. 
lighters. 
The following gives the output of the three canneries for 1897 : 
Siiecies. 
Number of 
fish. 
Number 
of cases. 
Number 
of hsh 
per case. 
Barrels 
salted. 
King salmon 
18,139 
5,823 
3 
32 
Eedtish 
1, 240, 080 
88, 791 
14 
178 
Cohoes 
150, 000 
10,119 
14. 8 
Humpbacks 
35, 348 
3,123 
11.3 
Total 
107, 856 
Of the above, the Bristol Bay Canning Company jiacked 34,117 cases, the Alaska 
Packing Company 37,849 cases, and the Arctic Packing Company 35,890 cases. 
The traps are used in Wood Eiver, which empties into the estuary above the 
canneries on the western bank ; the gill nets are used in the estuary where the water 
is muddy. ISTo seines are used. 
KVIOHAK RIVER. 
To the eastward of the Nushagak and emjitying into the head of Bristol Bay is 
the Kvichak, with one cannery and one saltery. 
The Prosper Fishing Coinjiany established a saltery at the mouth of the Kvichak 
in 1894 and operated it that year and the following. It was sold in 1896 to the 
Alaska Packers’ Association and closed. 
Under the name of Point Eoberts Packing Company the Alaska Packers’ Asso- 
ciation established and operated a saltery at Koggiung on the Ivviehak Eiver in 1894, 
and built a cannery the following year, utilizing in its construction the available 
machinery from the cannery of the Central Alaska Company at Thin Point. It was 
first operated in 1896, and also i)acked in 1897. It is said to have a capacity of 2,000 
cases per day. In 1897 the company employed 65 white fishermen, 10 white cannery- 
hands, 150 Chinese, and 25 natives. Twenty-five gill nets were used, each 60 fathoms 
long by 30 meshes deep, and 4 traps, with the inside leaders 300 feet long and outside 
leaders 250 feet long. 
