FISHERIES OF ALASKA IK 1909. 
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demand since the season ended and as a result the market has been 
rather weak. 
The pickling and mild-curing plant of the San Juan Fishing and 
Packing Company, at Kenai, on Cook Inlet, was not operated this 
season, nor was the pickling plant of the Alaska Packers Association 
on the Ugashik River, in western Alaska. 
Persons engaged . — This year 396 persons (of whom 237 were fisher- 
men, 130 shoresmen, and 29 transporters) were employed, a decrease 
of 144 as compared with 1908. 
Persons Engaged in the Salmon-pickling Industry in 1909. 
How engaged. 
Southeast 
Alaska. 
Central 
Alaska. 
Western 
Alaska. 
Total . 
Fishermen: 
Whites 
44 
1 
30 
75 
Indians 
26 
136 
162 
Total 
70 
137 
30 
237 
Shoresmen: 
Whites 
11 
6 
43 
60 
Indians 
24 
39 
3 
66 
Japanese 
4 
4 
Total 
35 
45 
50 
130 
Transporters: 
Whites 
6 
6 
5 
17 
Indians 
12 
12 
Total 
6 
18 
5 
29 
Grand total 
111 
200 
85 
396 
Investment . — There were 16 salteries (8 in southeast Alaska, 5 in 
central Alaska, and 3 in western Alaska) in operation, a decrease of 
19 as compared with 1908. In addition some of the canneries and 
mild-curing plants also pickled their surplus catch, and while the 
product has been included in the present table the men and invest- 
ment could not be separated from the statistics of the other branches 
of the industry. 
Investment in the Salmon-pickling Industry in 1909. 
Item. 
Southeast Alaska. 
Central Alaska. 
Western Alaska. 
Total. 
Num- 
ber. 
Value. 
Num- 
ber. 
Value. 
Num- 
ber. 
Value. 
Num- 
ber. 
Value. 
Salteries 
8 
9 
83 
5 
3 
46 
1 
315 
58 
26 
3 
3 
15 
3 
1, 391 
32 
16 
15 
144 
4 
1, 706 
143 
35 
5 
18 
7 
1 
Transporting vessels: 
Steamers and launches. . . 
Tonnage 
$15,840 
$17,334 
$11, 666 
$44, 840 
Sailing 
6,600 
29, 700 
36, 300 
Tonnage ...... 
Boats 
Apparatus: 
Haul seines 
Purse seines 
53 
9 
5 
5 
3 
1 
3, 155 
1,260 
1,600 
500 
5, 500 
700 
44, 000 
2,145 
2,800 
2, 215 
7, 515 
4,060 
1,600 
1,120 
6,994 
700 
97, 500 
Gill nets 
Traps, stake 
Traps, floating 
1 
350 
13 
3 
620 
1,144 
Shore and accessory property. 
Total 
16, 500 
37, 000 
72,555 
45, 729 
82,345 
200,629 
