Fish Management Seeks To Restore
Fakilous Red Salmon Runs Of 1888
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Ihshfny. as an Industry in Alaska,
beyan in l STS. 11 years after the
United States acquired the Terri
tory from Russia. In absence of
refriyoration and tin cans, the
first commercial iterations were
f.sh saltern's. the only means of
presentation. As cans and canning
equipment hectme available com
panies sw - eh ed over to the new
n-ocess. and as vine or another area
* -s {.shed out, o a rntr month
'led with silt and K'ft a cannery
- oh and dry. the owner* suspended
operations n some places. eon
sw!dated them ih others
The first eanaary on Kodiak Is
land was located van KarJuk Spit in
‘S8S. tt was owned by Smith and
illrscfc who started la the sh salt
cry bwsinot*^ than re-cyan ted as
a cannery in 1884. The first can
nery built in the town of Kodiak
was Kad sk Fisheries, in 1912. vis
ing the earlier and original spetl
ns of Kodiak
Hov Hickey. Supervisor of the
Westward \res of the Alaska De
partment of Fish, and Game, told
::s recently that there are still some
s' s .’.tod in Alaska The King
.a'moa is one Tex. the Kosher
smoke salmon, or mild cured
salmon, is the number one market
or K u sumcn They are salted
and shipped e ?st in 8«X>-pound bar
"e.s In aldit .on. linked numbers
of Silver or Cohoe salmon are
saltesi in ?Ah pound barrels by in
dividual*, mostly for the Hawaiian
market,
'The ore spee.es of salmon we
a e watch, closely. because it
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fluctuates radically from year to
year, is the Red, or Sockeye. The
Karluk system is capable of, and
has produced S-raillion reds, but
that was in 18SS Now that we have
the responsibility of the manage^
mea. of our fisheries, we are try
in, to establish the cyclic nature
of red salmon pans that was lost
m the '30‘s That's one o' Bob Si
mons jobs. Fish and Wildlife had
been doing research in Karluk
s.nce 1921. and we know very little
more That's a long time. 40 years,
whkh .s not particularity to their
c*. edit, but we re going to try
something in management. That is,
to man:palate hie Karluk run to
get the part of the run we think
should be on the spawning grounds
on these grounds.
Every other year there's a
Isrge run of Humpies in that area;
it runs into millions. So we cannot
man;pulate the red salmon the
even ye.,rs. as we can in the odd
years. The complicating fact of the
Karluk ran is that Karluk f^sh are
caught all the way from here down
to here " Mr. Rickey pointed to a
detailed wall chart about six feet
iong and noted toe three ma n sys
terns contributing fish to the Kar
luk run: The Red, Uganik, Karluk
Rivers, and Red streams in Olga
Bay.” We made certain we under
stood the meaning of manupula
tion, and indeed it is the closing of
areas off-shore around streams so
that fish can get upstream to
spawn, unimpeded by fishermen.
The only time we can be sure
of those fish is when they are in
the mouth of the bay, creek, or
river. We do the best we can to an
ticipate conditions but Kodiak Is
land is very different from most
other Alaskan fishing areas. For
instance, in Bristol Bay the fish
come into a bay, or U-shaped area.
Kodiak is all fishing on a perimeter
of reverse shape, and this makes
it very difficult to control.
“Red salmon, are in overlapping
areas with other varieties; their
habits are different and this is
what makes it complicated to re
vitalize reds and yet not hurt the
business of fishing.”
We were discussing the year
1960. the effects of past years on
the fishing industry in Alaska in
general, and in the Kodiak-West
ward area in particular. Roy
Rickey, as had Bob Simon, joined
the department within a few years
of one another when it was still a
Territorial function, able only to
carry on limited research and to
recommend regulations to the Fed
eral agency in actual command.
It was then a comparatively new
thing, this body of men charged
by the Territorial Legislature with
the responsibility to do what it
could to effect constructive
changes in fishery management
practices. The Legislature created
the department in 1949. though by
another name, with statehood in
arjxL A year after Alaska became
the 49th. state, the Alaska Depart
ment of Fish and Game received
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