The Wrangell sentinel., 1940-11-15
s. E. Alaska
 Salmon Pack
 Up This Year

SEATTLE. Nov 15 = Based on figures collected by the Fish and Wildlife Service. Division Of Fish cry Industries. the Canned Salmon Industry today reported the 19#D total Alaska pack of canned salmon as 5.042.SI5 cases. This is slightly under the pack of a year ago which tOtalled 5.196,7S4 cases.
 The salmon pack in both Central and Southeastern Alaska was larger than in 1889. but the short pack in Western Alaska due to the off cycle. in Bristol Bay brought the total pack under 1939 figures. The pack. in Central Alaska amounted 10 2.-| 322,54S cases compared with D.. oo2, 456 cases a year ago, while the Southeastern pack this year was 2,208,8S5 cases as against 1s99T.-. S60 cases in 1889.
 By species. this years output showed great variation from last year. Bristol Bays pack of red sal. mon this summer amounted to 399, 994 cases compared with a pack of 1.o43,1S4 eases Of reds a year ago. This coupled with drop in the red salmon pack in Central Alaska from a pack last year of 64S.601 cases to this years figure of 3S3.I62I cases accounted Tor most Of the shortage Of reds in this years total output The 1940 red salmon pack in Alaska totalled 962.9S2 cases or nearly one million cases less than last year s figure or 1924 cases l
 The pink pack this year for all districts in Alaska totalled 2,910-I 152 cases which topped last year, 'sI output of 2.515.098 cases but fell far short Of the average of the pre-I ceeding five years which amounted l 10 3,70I,560 cases.
 southeastern Alaska had about l the same pink pack as a year agoI with 1,447S1S cases as against l, ,-l 461.134 cases. Central Alaska. with a short red pack. put up a consid-| erably larger pack Of pinks than a year ago Their pink pack came toI 1,446,649 cases compared with 1,-I 05S,963 eases. The big gains were made in Prince William Sound which produced 522,273 cases asl compared iwth I29,173 cases a year ago and in Cook Inlet which packed 1 4,790 cases against last years, to-l tai of 13.9S2 cases.
 Chum production also showed an increase for 1940, with the total pack coming 10 865,776 cases against last years output of 6O9,-I roo cases. This years chum pack Was the one major species that ex-I ceeded the average of the five years prior to last. The average for theI 19343S period was 842,148 cases.
 SOutheastern's cnum pack came to 482,233 cases compared with 278,740 eases a year ago, while l Central Alaska packed 34S,213 cas- es this year Their last years out-l put of chums was 23S,869 cases. The Western Alaska chum pack del clined from S2,091 cases a year agol to 35,330 cases this year
 The pack Of Conoes for the Ter ritory as a whole showed a sharp increase from a year ago, amount-I ing to 2S0,783 eases as compared with the 1889 pack of 9S,685 cases. Southeastern Alaska packed 153,-I 9S6 cases this year against 61,0S5, in 1889, while the Central Alaska production of this species amounted to 125,0O1 cases this year compared to 37,599 cases a year ago.
 Summarizing the pack it isl pointed out that while the total pack approximated the 1889 total, the pack this year was heavier in the cheaper species such as pinks and chums, and was about one mil lion eases short of year ago in the more valuable red salmon.