The Daily Alaska empire., 1930-03-11
ALASKA FISHERIES SHOW HEALTHY
 STATUS.

Lewis Radcliffe, Deputy Commissioner of Fish cries told the House Appropriations Committee the other day that the American fisheries industry was in fairly healthy condition and that the total an nual value of it's production with manufacturing costs added $250000000 a year. That means that about one-fifh of the foods production of the Nation comes from Alaska In other words the New England and other Atlantic, Gulf of Mex ico Pacific Coast and Great Lakes States com bined produce only about four times the value in seafoods as Alaska produces, and they include in their figures the enormous Atlantic Gulf of Mexico and Pacific States oyster and other she-fsh output. In a dispatch to the Seattle Times concerning Mir Radcliffes representations, w. w. Jermane, Washington correspondent and associate editor of the Times speaking of the reference to Alaska fish cries, said:
 The salmon condition in Alaska, NIT. Radcliffe says, is good. The danger of ex- haustion has been eliminated and the fish cry restored to healthy condition. The canners satisfied with existing cond- tons because they feel that the fisheries bureaus policy is ng-sighted and will in- sure the continuance of the runs of salmon without danger of depletion
 Some years ago. it added the feeling quite general that prohibition of fish ing in some of the main nlets might mean the ruin of the industry But there has been decided change of feeling in recent
 
 done to tighten the regulations is good for the salmon run, and therefore for the in dustrys
 The pack of canned salmon tor 1929 to- taled 5.285,000 cases, compared with a fiye-year average from 1924 to 1928 of B. 2l2000 cases. It is thus seen that 1929 was above the five-year average, not very much but enough so that MT Radcliffe is satis- fled with the situation
 Not the least interesting part of what Mir EJadn had ta +n tons Committee had to do with the fur-seal herd the Pribilof Islands When the United States took the herd over, in 1911 it was estimated to contain I3000O animals Last year it approached 100000, an increase of 800 per cent in eighteen years.
 Not only that, but the Government was able to kill nearly 10000 surplus males last year, without impairing the herd. That was the largest kill in forty years.
 Supplementing what MT Radcliffe had been saying, Henry D. Aller Assistant to the Chief of the Alaska Division of the Fish cries Bureau, told how plans have been made with the aid of increased appro- priation by Congress, for the use at pro- fit of the by-products the islands The increase will enable the Bureau to utilize the carcasses of the slaughtered seal bulls turning them into fertilizer and various other things commercially valuable
 This is a new venture and grows out of experiments made in small way during the last two or three years The few tons of fish meal and oil made eXperimentally, will now become many hundreds of tons, for consignment to markets in the States by way of Seattle
 During 1929 there were many inquiries at the Bureaus Seattle office as to whether seal oil could be obtained It was explained that there were many uses to which it could be put and the inquiries expressed the hope that oil was to be made from the carcasses Of the dead bulls
 In 1929 British Columbia sllnnlied Talf- fornia with some 10000 tons of fish meal; as far as the Fisheries Bureau has been in- formed, the meal made from seals is val