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FISHERIES OF ALASKA IN 1909. 
Output . — The output amounted to 26,915 barrels and 6,997 half 
barrels, with a total value of $208,758, a decrease of 9,034 barrels, an 
increase of 750 half barrels, and a decrease of $143,949, as compared 
with 1908. The pack of humpback bellies fell off from 517 barrels 
and 2,346 half barrels in 1908 to 738 barrels in 1909. The pack of 
red salmon bellies fell off from 1,895 barrels in 1908 to 942 barrels in 
1909. No dog salmon bellies were packed in 1908. Red salmon 
forms the bulk of the pack. Of the backs left after the humpback 
bellies had been packed 56 barrels were pickled. 
Quantity of Salmon Pickled in 1909, by Species. 
Products. 
Southeast 
Alaska. 
Central 
Alaska. 
Western 
Alaska. 
Total. 
Num- 
ber. 
V alue. 
Num- 
ber. 
Value. 
| Num- 
! ber. 
Value. 
Num- 
ber. 
Value. 
Coho, or silver barrels. . 
Coho bellies do 
202 
$1,405 
89 
255 
$810 
3,843 
27 
$270 
318 
255 
35 
1,557 
738 
56 
441 
35 
6,055 
23,480 
942 
$2,485 
3,843 
190 
9,405 
7,438 
224 
3,798 
175 
20,900 
146,398 
13,902 
Dog, or chum do 
Humpback, or pink do 
15 
1,557 
688 
56 
31 
35 
90 
9,405 
6,938 
224 
248 
175 
20 
100 
Humpback bellies do 
Humpback backs do 
50 
500 
King, or spring do 
King, or spring, bellies do 
410 
3,550 
Red, or sockeye half barrels. . 
6,055 
21,291 
20,900 
129,079 
Do barrels 
2, 189 
942 
17,319 
13,902 
Red bellies do 
m fhalf barrels. . 
942 
2,583 
6,055 
21,748 
6,997 
26,915 
Total {barrels 
2,584 
18,485 
36,374 
153,899 
208, 758 
MILD CURING. 
The packing of mild-cured salmon was confined this season to 
southeast Alaska, the plant of the San Juan Fishing and Packing 
Company, at Kenai, on Cook Inlet, central Alaska, not being- 
operated. This business is proving one of the most attractive in 
southeast Alaska, where king salmon are to be found throughout 
the greater part of the year. The chief danger at present is that 
it may be overdone and the supply of kings seriously depleted. 
The principal trouble the dealers experience at present is in get- 
ting rid of the white-meated king salmon with the least possible 
loss. These fish average about one-fourtli of the total catch, and 
the fishermen insist that the dealers shall take them along with the 
others, which they do at a considerably lower price. Early in the 
season many of them are shipped fresh to the Puget Sound ports, but 
after the kings begin to run in the Sound this is unprofitable. 
Persons engaged . — This year 521 persons (of whom 446 were 
fishermen, 55 shoresmen, and 20 transporters) were engaged in the 
mild-curing industry. A number of others also engaged in it for 
limited periods, but as their work in connection with other branches 
of the industry was more important they have been included with 
those. 
