The King Crab Industry in Picture and Story
Pictured above is part of the crab fishing fleet as they lay in at Alitak Bay, Kodiak Island*
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Emptying a king crab trap aboard the Suzie Q.
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Here is seen hoisting a crab pot aboard the S uzie Q. Pots are used mainly, but another meth
od used is that of dragging.
Processing Crab
b Big Business
Kodiak today focuses attention
on the king crab industry and the
mm who keep the industry alive
on the Island.
Recognized principally as a sal
mon producing area, the Island
and vicinity’s potential as being
ahie to maintain an industry sec
ond to none in Alaska, was not
tolly recognized until a compara
tively few years ago.
The first commercial king crab
operation in Alaska was started
is 1920 in Seldovia. Only a few
cases were packed however. In
1938 the first determined effort
was made to exploit the resource
commercially. The floating can
nery “Tondeleyo” operated at
great expense off of Kodiak Is
land, the Shumagin Islands and
toe eastern Bering Sea.
M 1946, exploratory fishing in
toe Bering Sea was conducted by
Wakefields and^ by Libby, Mc
Neil and Libbys. In 1947 work
continued with the “Deep Sea,”
a boat belonging to Wakefield’s
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A crab operator’s dream—mounds ©f crab. These are being taken
from the live boxes and are about to travel their last journey up
the ramp and into the cookers.
A New
Shipment
of Ladies and Childrens
play clothes -
REMEMBER
MOTHERS DAY
MAY 10
We have a large selec
tion of gifts for mother
KRAFTS DRY GOODS DEPARTMENT
Open every Friday evening until 8:00 p.m.