CATCH 



PACK 



RED PINK CHUM COHO KING 



Figure 3. — Southeastern Alaska long-term average catch and pack composition. 



traps are usually fished from late June to 

 the end of August and gill nets from early 

 May through September. Trolling takes 

 place in outside waters from mid-April to 

 the end of October. Inside waters, with 

 the exception of specific local areas, may 

 be trolled throughout the year, except for 

 a closed period for echo salmon fishing 

 from late September through June. Pink 

 salmon is the domincint species; chum, red 

 (sockeye), coho, and king salmon occur in 

 decreasing abundJince in the order named. 

 The long-term averages of the various spe- 

 cies that contribute to the Southeastern 

 Alaska pack and catch are shown in figure 3. 

 The relationship between the catch in fish 

 and the resulting pack in cases is graphi- 

 cally illustrated in figure 3. Seventy-five 



Figure 4. --Pink salmon pack, Southeastern 

 Alaska. 



percent of the total catch of pink salmon 

 contributes only 59 percent of the total 

 pack whereas only 17 percent of the catch 

 of chum salmon accounts for 28 percent of 

 the pack. This, of course, is a result of 

 the fact that chum salmon are a larger spe- 

 cies than pink. 



The 1958 pink salmon pack of 703,000 

 cases (figure 4) compared favorably with 

 the average for the past decade of 750,000 

 cases and was the best pack since 1951. 

 Twenty-one plants operated this year, some 

 of which represented consolidations of two 

 or more companies. About one-half of the 

 pink salmon pack came from the Ketchikan 

 area, of which the Southern District and 

 the southeastern section of Clarence Strait 

 were the most productive. The escapement 

 was also good. The geopraphic locations of 

 the districts are shown on the map (figure 

 5). In Icy Strait, Tenakee Inlet, Peril 

 Strait, Eastern District, Sumner Strait, 

 and Clarence Strait (northern section), 

 escapements were below the parent year. 

 The escapements for specific index streams 

 in each of the Southeastern Alaiska Districts 

 are shown in figure 6 (page 6). 



To better utilize the Lake Bay red 

 salmon rim, the southern limit of that gill 

 net fishery was extended this year tc Luck 

 Point. Forty thousand red salmon were 

 taken in the combined Red Bay-Salmon Bay- 

 Lake Bay fishery as compared with 3,000 in 



