She gives me a thumbs-up for encouragement. Six months earlier, Barb persuaded me to work at a salmon cannery in Ketchikan, Alaska, for July and August. Barb's classmate worked there every summer ...

The freezer barge Northline is preparing to send back to Alaska has at least $2.78 million in liens against it from contractors who helped refit the 400-foot vessel purpose-built to receive and store ...

TACOMA, Washington, Aug. 31.-The Alaska Packers' Association has ordered closed its entire series of salmon canneries, though its pack up to this time is only onethird of last year. This comprises ...

The first oil claims were staked in Cook Inlet, and Sheldon Jackson introduced reindeer into Alaska in an attempt to develop a herding economy. Large corporate salmon canneries appeared about this ...

Over the last ten years there has been a steady decline in hatchery-reared salmon making their mark on Alaska’s economy.

Canned salmon production began in earnest around the mid-to-late 19th century, with entire towns being built around the canneries, particularly in Alaska and the Pacific Northwest (where salmon ...

I toured interesting exhibits about the salmon cannery that used to occupy ... animals while you're out on the water. Some ...