The Kusko times., 1930-01-04
PROGRESS OF TERRITORY, AS SHOWN lE REPORT OF GOV.
 PADkS TO INTERIOR DEPT.
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m the commercial fisheries in 1928, an increase of 2,214 over the previous year. Of these, 17,326 were whites. 5,Gi4 were natives, and the rest Flli- : piros, Japanese, Chinese, Mexicans, and Negroes, in the order named.
 il he vaiue of the canned salmon iu 1928 represents about 96 per cent of tns tota! value of the industry; 24, ,428 persons were employed to can 6,063,- g,3 cases, va.ued at S45,383,S 1885. One hundred and ffty-three canneries canneries were operated, as con- pared with 145 in 1927.
 The production of mild-cured sal mon, while considerably less than in 1927, was not below the average. for the past several years. Twenty plants were operated and employed 1870 persons to pack 4,1a3 tierces of kings, 1,650 tierces. of echoes, and 7 tierces of. chuns, total of 5,850 tisrces, va.ued at S1,101,8 ,871. Efforts to. utilize the by-products of the can hing industry have been successful, and during the season 1,421, ,644 pounds of fertilizer, valued at S44,- 109, and 43,390 gallons of oil, valued at $16,420. were derived from this source.
 The total production of the herring
 
 industry was somewhat greater than in 1927. An important feature was the discovery of large schools of her ring in the vicinity of Dutch Harbor. Sixty five, plants, employing l,1992 persons, produced 16,O56,595 pounds of Scotch b-cured herriog, 2O,O44, ,164 pounds of meal, 2,543,600 gallons of oil, and. 6 ,553, ,266 pounds of bait, val ued at S3,098, ,457, in 1928.
 The halibut industry suffered de- cline in prices. and in the quantity of fish caught in 1928. One thousand TWO hundred forty-oone persons were employed in this industry, and they caught 31,567,Oo0 pounds, valued at S3,094, ,000, as compared with 34,491,- 283 pounds, valued at $3,805,088, in 1927- The. .proble moi preserving the haiibut fisheries has occupied the at tention of the International Halibut Commissionfor several years and as a result of their investigations it is appares1t that the fishing grounds bordering Canada and Alaska have been seriously depleted. If these fisheries are to be rehabilitated, it is probable that fishing will have to be restricted for aperiod of years. The output from the cod fisheries declined about 50, perscen under last year be- cause none of the large plants were operated. There wasa sharp decline in the whaling industry both inathe number of people employed and the value of the catch. Two, hundred and thirty persons captured, 402 whales, which yielded, 730, $50 gallons off oil, valued at $343, ,786; 93,75O gallons. of sperm oil, valued at S36,748; and 1928. tons of fertilizer, valued at $73,74O, or a total of $454,274, as compared with $622,412 in 1927.
 Scaling.
 The census of the seal herd on the Pribilof Islands is computed in Au- gust each year, and the Bureau of Fisheries estimates the increase for 1928 to- be 62,643, or TT per centt. The total number of seals of all ages and classes in the. nerd on August 10, 1928, is given 817,5l3. In 1911, when the government assumed contro of the herds, there wee about 132,O00 seals of all classes on the islands, and the results that have been achieved in building up the herds to more than six times the original herd in 18 years is striking example of what may be accOmuliShpd, 6V DrOpera metf1OdS of