FISHERIES OF ALASKA IK 1909. 
43 
Name. 
Class. 
Tonnage. 
Owner. 
Fanny Dutard 
Scow. 
252 
J. A. Matheson, Anacortes, Wash. 
Do. 
Harriet G 
Brig 
188 
Alice 
Schooner 
220 
Robinson Fisheries Co., Anacortes, Wash. 
Do. 
Joseph Russ 
do 
235 
Maid of Orleans 
do 
171 
Seattle-Alaska Fish Co., Seattle, Wash. 
Harold Blekum 
do. 
185 
King^& Winge, Seattle, Wash. 
Vega 
do 
233 
Fortuna 
.... .do 
138 
Blom Codfish Co., Tacoma, Wash. 
Union Fish Co., San Francisco, Cal. 
Do. 
Czarina 
do 
218 
Ottillie Fjord 
do 
247 
Stanley 
do 
253 
Do. 
City of Papeete 
Barkentine 
370 
Alaska Codfish Co., San Francisco, Cal. 
Do. 
John D. Spreckles 
Schooner 
253 
W. H. Dimond 
. ...do 
376 
Do. 
The only change from last year was the dropping out of the Ivy 
(135 tons), which had been chartered by the Union Fish Company 
during 1908. Most of the fleet met with excellent luck this year and 
found fish so plentiful that some of them returned several weeks 
earlier than usual. The schooner Joseph Russ made the record catch, 
bringing home 204,155 fish, all of which were taken, dressed, and 
salted in fifty-eight days. 
While fishing from their dories in Unimak Pass, six of the crew 
of the Harriet G were caught in a sudden blow and driven on the 
rocks and drowned before they could reach the shore. Two other 
men who were with the party were saved by a United States light- 
house tender, which later delivered them aboard their vessel. 
Early in the summer the schooner Czarina, while fishing in Bering 
Sea, was blown ashore and for ten days remained on a sand spit. 
She sustained but slight damage, however. 
The vessels from Washington operating in Alaska waters caught 
1,147,605 fish, while those from San Francisco caught 520,000, a 
total of 1,667,605. 
In 1908 a fleet of three San Francisco vessels operated in the 
Okhotsk Sea and caught 445,000 fish. This year but one vessel, the 
barkentine Fremont (328 tons), owned by the Union Fish Company, 
of San Francisco, visited these grounds. She returned with a catch of 
80,000 fish. Her captain reported a large fleet of Japanese vessels 
fishing there for cod. 
THE HALIBUT FISHERY. 
The season of 1908 was fairly good, and wmuld have been much 
better had it not been for the scarcity of bait during portions of the 
best of the fishing season. For days at a time during the winter 
vessels had to tie up owing to the impossibility of securing either 
fresh or salted bait. The question of bait supply has been treated of 
more fully under the herring fishery. 
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