Salmon canning was big business in San Francisco for a long time. In the early 20th century, sailing ships would head for Alaska each summer, carrying all the men, supplies and machinery needed for ...

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 great salmon fisheries, which normally bring 41% of Alaska’s $146 million annual ... the lowest level since the canneries started keeping records in 1910. The fishermen can blame themselves ...

They recalled the 1970s and ‘80s, when a booming fish cannery industry meant frequent water overconsumption ... “On the Kenai, as for so much of Alaska, important hydrologic questions are related to ...

Alaska, cannery will not be handling fish this summer. It's one of the first signs that salmon processors are responding to a concentration of ownership in Alaska's Bristol Bay. An email from OBI ...