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 ...

A Seattle-based seafood company says it won't operate its Petersburg salmon ... as a cannery." Workers who don't end up at Excursion Inlet will go to other Ocean Beauty sites in Alaska, Sunderland ...

HAINES, Alaska -- A former fisherman ... in a 30-by-140-foot building that includes maps, graphs and historic photographs that capture the heyday of salmon packing in Haines.

Owner Mathew Scaletta stands in front of Wildfish Cannery ... king salmon cheeks. Since Scaletta started smoking salmon for the slightly spendier masses, tinned fish is officially on the map ...

While private cruise ports are a staple in the Caribbean, they’re rare in Alaska. The exception is ... which was developed on the site of a defunct salmon cannery by the Native American-owned ...

Back in the 1950s, Alaska's bid for statehood was spurred in part by a fight over fish traps. The behemoth contraptions were placed at the mouths of salmon ... so when the cannery needed 30,000 ...

Traps were banned in the 1930s, prompting canneries to move their fish-catching operations to Alaska, where salmon were still abundant and traps were still legal. Bellingham's proximity to the ...

It seems to be the only food product to do so. A: The reason is pretty simple. Alaska, where many salmon canneries are situated, doesn't have any can manufacturers. The cans have to be shipped to ...

Alaska Daily Empire, August 15, 1918 This brief 100-year-old news note about an Alaska salmon cannery hardly begins to tell the story of the importance of fishing and its relationship to the ...