{{Short description|Boat used to transport fish hauls and protect traps in 20th-century North America}}
[[File:Cannery tender Ilwaco.png|300px|right|alt=The Cannery Tender Ilwaco of Washington|thumb|The {{convert|96|ft|m|1|adj=on}} Puget Sound motor cannery tender ''Ilwaco'' on 1 August 1918 (from ''Pacific Motor Boat'' magazine, 1918).]] [[File:FMIB 44581 New Cannery Tender for Fidalgo Island Packing Co.jpeg|thumb|FMIB 44581 A 1912 line drawing of a "new cannery tender for [the] Fidalgo Island Packing Company" (from ''Pacific Fisherman Annual Statistical Review'', 1912).]] A '''cannery tender''' was a type of commercial fishing vessel operated by salmon canneries in the early to mid- 20th century. Most commonly used in the Pacific Northwest and Alaska, cannery tenders transported fish from cannery-owned fish traps to canneries. Cannery tenders also transported men and supplies to set up and maintain the fish traps and patrolled the area around fish traps to protect them from fish pirates.<ref>{{cite news |last= Allen |first= June |date= August 30, 2002 |title= Fish Pirates and Fish Traps |url= http://www.sitnews.org/JuneAllen/082902_fish_pirates.html |publisher= SitNews |location= Ketchikan, Alaska |accessdate= September 15, 2015}}</ref>
After commercial fish traps were banned in Washington in 1934 and in Alaska in 1959, many of the cannery tenders were sold to private operators for use as fishing boats<ref>[http://alaskahistoricalsociety.org/the-funter-bay-cannery Gabe Emerson - The Funter Bay Cannery]</ref> or towing vessels.<ref>[https://pugetships.wordpress.com/tag/cannery-tender Vulcan of LaConner WA]</ref>
==Surviving examples==
{{ship||Chacon|1912|2}} was one of two identical cannery tenders operated by Fidalgo Island Packing Company. ''Chacon'' can be visited at her permanent location in Chugiak, Alaska.
==References== {{Reflist}}
==External links== * [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ah44eAXK8D4 The Days of Salmon Traps & Fish Pirates] (video)
Category:Seafood canneries Category:Commercial fishing in Alaska Category:Fishing in the United States Category:Salmon Category:Ship types
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