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Show POINTS OUT WASTE OF ALASKA HERRING BKATTLK. Wash., Oct. II Three-fourtha Three-fourtha of the herring caught In Alas. kan waters are wasted, according to Charles D. Oarflcld. former supertn- j tendent of hatcheries In Alaska, who : estimates that three herring are j thrown awny for every one that la pickled. This 1 due to a lack off proper facilities In the northern packing pack-ing plants for taking cure of the sur- plus fish, says Mr. Garfield. , The waste I the result of a demand of the Kn stern trade for herring of a( certain sixe. all fish above or below ai standard sixe of approximately eiyhi j inches being thrown back Into the, water. One concern operating In j Northern waters has a modern plant I equipped for making ftah oil and fer j tlliser out of the surplus, but the oth i era. Mr. Garfield said, ar wasting tha, iflith that cannot be canned. Visitors returning from the North ssy thle waste will Involve millions of tons of herring this year, because the pack will be three or four times as large as In past years. Mr. Garfield estimates the herring pack for thia year at 125,000 barrels! and says that thia Industry la rapidly taking the place of the salmon industry indus-try because of the decrease of salmon |