Alaska fish hatchery records and related material, 1903-1982
Scope and Contents
The federal government operated hatcheries at Yes Bay, this collection includes eleven logbooks of the station operation from 1906-1934. Three logbooks related to the Quadra Hatchery, which was a mandatory hatchery, are included in this collection. The logbooks cover the years 1908 - 1935. Also included is a logbook of the Hetta Hatchery on Prince of Wales Island, a voluntary enterprise, which closed in 1918. Copies of correspondence and a history of the government operated Afognak Hatchery are also a part of this collection. Also included are copies of some correspondence and reports on the Karluk Hatchery which closed in 1930.
Other materials in this collection are the FEDERAL FISH HATCHERY MEMOIRS compiled by William M. Morton and BIOGRAPHIES OF PACIFIC FISHERY BIOLOGISTS by W.M. Morton and Ralph P. Silliman. These works include helpful information on people who worked in Alaska such as Lillie M. Anderson, Frederick A. Davidson, Clarence E. Rowland (Yes Bay), Eric O. Kuehl (Yes Bay), Blendon H. Cook (Yes Bay), Harry D. Baer (Afognak Hatchery), Frederick W. Bitle (Kodiak), Marcus W. Meyer (Quadra and Kodiak) and others.
Dates
- 1903-1982
Conditions Governing Access
The collection is unrestricted.
Conditions Governing Use
Request for permission to publish or reproduce material from the collection should be discussed with the Librarian.
HISTORICAL NOTE
Control of Alaska's fisheries, including regulation and hatcheries has been under various federal agencies. In the collection are photocopies of records from the U.S. Commission of Fisheries under the U.S. Department of Commerce and Labor. Within this Commission was the Bureau of Scientific Inquiry and the Bureau of Fisheries including the Alaska Fisheries Service. In 1910 the two bureaus merged to form the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service under the Department of Commerce.
Alaska's fish hatcheries were operated by private companies on a voluntary or mandatory basis; also by the federal and territorial government. The first hatchery at Karluk, Kodiak Island in 1891, was built on a voluntary basis by several cannery -operators. It spawned a limited number of sockeye salmon. In 1900, the U.S. Congress amended the 1889 Fisheries Act requiring any person, company or corporation taking salmon in Alaskan waters must establish a hatchery producing at least four times the number of mature salmon taken each year. There are some logbooks and records of the Quadra Hatchery established pursuant to this law.
Extent
3 boxes ; 1.9 linear feet
Language of Materials
English
Immediate Source of Acquisition
This collection was donated by Patricia Roppel in April 1984. The records and material were gathered during a research project for the U.S. National Marine Fisheries Service. Her work ALASKA'S SALMON HATCHERIES, 1891-1959 (Portland, Oregon, National Marine Fisheries Service, 1982) was published as Alaska Historical Commission Studies in History, No. 20.
Processing Information
The majority of this collection has been described at the item. Folders 5 and 6 in Box 3 have been described at the folder level. Original order maintained. Some items have been placed into pH-neutral folders. All items have been housed in archival boxes.
- Title
- Finding Aid for the Alaska fish hatchery records and related material, 1903-1982
- Status
- In Progress
- Author
- Finding aid prepared by staff ; revised by Jacki Swearingen
- Date
- 2014 June
- Description rules
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
- Language of description
- Undetermined
- Script of description
- Code for undetermined script
- Language of description note
- English
Repository Details
Part of the Alaska State Library - Historical Collections Finding Aids Repository
PO Box 110571
Juneau AK 99811-0571 US
907-465-2920
907-465-2925
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asl.historical@alaska.gov