CONTENTS. 
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Summarized statistics of Alaska fisheries 5 
Persons engaged . „ . . 6 
Investment 6 
Products 7 
The salmon industry . 11 
Plants in operation 11 
Hatcheries 12 
Statistics 15 
Catch in 1907, 1908, and 1909 15 
Canning 16 
Persons engaged 17 
Investment _ 18 
Output 18 
Comparison of pack of 1906, 1907, 1908, and 1909 19 
Pickling 20 
Persons engaged 21 
Investment 21 
Output 22 
Mild curing 22 
Persons engaged 22 
Investment and products 23 
Fresh salmon 24 
Minor preserving processes 24 
Dry salting and drying 24 
Smoking 24 
Freezing 24 
Miscellaneous fishery notes 24 
Disasters 24 
King salmon fishery 25 
Trolling for salmon other than kings 26 
Salmon in seal’s stomach 26 
Marked salmon 26 
Fishery laws and their enforcement 27 
Needs of the service 27 
Complaints and prosecutions 28 
Labeling of canned salmon • 30 
License taxes and hatchery rebates 30 
Observations on Wood River 34 
The order closing Wood and Nushagak rivers 34 
Count of breeding run in Wood River 34 
Daily tally at Lake Alegnagik 36 
Significance of the figures - 36 
Miscellaneous observations 38 
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