| Show ALASKA FI FISHERIES ALASKA promises to become a mo mg abundant source of food supply for the united states state the fish commission in its recent report says that alaska has one more cannery than all oregon and the output has grown to be double that of the latter baltera lal tera s in 1889 alatka pack W cases of salmon double what it did the year previous us the value of the total product of canned salmon up to the present is estimated at the karluk river alone gives employment to 1100 fishermen and packers it has one of the largest canneries in the world but other fish than salmon abound governor Knapp says I 1 in some places schools of herring about the size of sardines afford fine opportunities for the location of sar dine packing establishments but none of these opportunities have yet been utilized pl cod halibut and other species of fish also abo abound u nd thereto there is room for a fish oil industry and for the manufacture of fertilizers from flab fish which governor knapp says will in time be developed |
