Fishing and canneries

Japanese Americans found work at salmon canneries along the Columbia River in Oregon and Washington, and their labor was welcomed in Alaskan towns such as Ketchikan and Petersburg as early as the 1890s. They traveled by ship to the cannery towns, where they slowly developed small communities whose population swelled with the yearly arrival of workers. Issei (Japanese immigrant) entrepreneurs started the oyster industry from scratch in Puget Sound. Japanese American oyster farms became thriving businesses before World War II.

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Shig Miyaki Interview Segment 3 (ddr-densho-1000-259-3)
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Helping on fishing boats as a teenager

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Mako Nakagawa Segment 1 (ddr-densho-1000-66-1)
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Father's background: eking out a living in an Alaskan cannery
Toshio Moritsugu Interview Segment 3 (ddr-densho-1000-318-3)
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Growing up in Hawaiian fishing village called Fish Camp

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Toshio Moritsugu Interview Segment 2 (ddr-densho-1000-318-2)
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Father's prewar fishing techniques

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Giro Nakagawa Interview Segment 11 (ddr-densho-1000-422-11)
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Being removed from the oyster farm station house after the bombing of Pearl Harbor
Robert T. Ohashi Interview Segment 8 (ddr-densho-1000-350-8)
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Meeting Japanese Americans from Seattle in the canneries

Nisei male. Born July 24, 1925, in Ketchikan, Alaska. Grew up in Ketchikan, where parents ran a store. During World War II, was removed to the Puyallup Assembly Center, Washington, and the Minidoka incarceration camp, Idaho. After leaving camp, went with family to work for a time in …

Min Tonai Interview I Segment 6 (ddr-densho-1000-354-6)
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The prewar fishing and cannery industry on Terminal Island

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