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FISHERIES OF ALASKA IK 1909. 
John H. Nelson, at Baralof (Squaw Harbor), on Unga Island. Pa- 
cific States Trading Company, at Northwest Harbor, Little Koniuji 
Island, and Ikatik, on Unimak Island. Seattle-Alaska Fish Com- 
pany, at Baralof (Squaw Harbor), on Unga Island. Union Fish 
Company, at Pirate Cove, Popof Island; Northwest Harbor, Little 
Koniuji Islands; Eagle Harbor and Sanborn Harbor, on Nagai 
Island; Unga, on Unga Island; Pavlof Harbor and Johnson Har- 
bor, on Sannak Island ; and Dora Harbor, on Unimak Island. Some 
of these stations were operated only during the winter of 1908-9. 
The Alaska Commercial Company prepared a considerable quantity 
of codfish at Kodiak. 
STATISTICS. 
During the year 185 fishermen and 28 shoresmen were employed at 
the stations, while 54 transporters were employed in operating trans- 
porting vessels in Alaska and between the Alaska stations and the 
California and Washington home stations. 
The following tables show the condition of the industry in 1909 : 
Investment in the Central Alaska Cod Fisheries in 1909. 
Items. 
Number. 
Value, a 
Items. 
Number. 
Value, a 
Transporting vessels: 
Steamers and launches 
2 
825, 500 
Apparatus: 
Hand lines 
81,975 
600 
Tonnage 
47 
Trawl lines 
Sailing 
5 
61,600 
Stations, with accessory prop- 
erty 
Tonnage 
1,137 
282 
20 
63,200 
Boats 
10, 930 
Total 
1 
J 163, 805 
a Includes outfit in the case of vessels. 
Products of the Central Alaska Cod Fisheries in 1909. 
Products. 
Round 
weight. 
Dressed 
weight. 
Value. 
Cod, fresh 
Pounds. 
5,900 
4, 441,925 
45,000 
5,133 
Pounds. 
4,720 
3,331,444 
13, 000 
3,700 
5,900 
$237 
116,601 
1,200 
183 
600 
Cod, salted (kench-cured) 
Cod, salted (stockfish) 
Cod, pickled 
Cod tongues, salted 
Total 
4.497,958 
3,358, 764 
118,821 
VESSEL FISHING. 
The following fleet a of 14 vessels, with headquarters in California 
and Washington, operated in Alaskan waters this year, several of 
them spending the winter of 1908-9 in the North: 
a None of the data relating to this fleet appears in the statistical tables. 
