the Alaska Peninsula during June, traps and 

 purse seines fish in the vicinity of False 

 Pass where they intercept red salmon that 

 are migrating to the Bering Sea and else- 

 where. In July and early August the same 

 gear takes pink salmon that are entering 

 the many small streams tributary to the 

 North Pacific Ocean along the full length 

 of the Peninsula. In some years (e.g. 1954 

 and 1958) sizable schools of pink salmon 

 occur on the north side of Unalaska Island 

 in the Aleutian Chain. These also contri- 

 bute to the pack of Peninsula canneries. A 

 fall run of chum salmon is dominant in the 

 catch in late August toward the westward 

 between False Pass and Pavlof Bay. The 

 fishery along the Peninsula and around the 

 Shumagin Islands seems at certain times of 

 the season to intercept not only local 

 Salmon but also runs destined for many other 

 places. The average composition of the 

 Peninsula pack, as compared with that of 

 1958, is shown in figure 25. 



Both pink salmon cycles are at a low 

 ebb of abundance on the South Peninsula, 

 and severe regulatory measures are consid- 

 ered necessary to revive them. The 1957 

 pink salmon pack of 30,811 cases was an 

 all-time low for the Peninsula. 



systems east of Port Moller and Nelson 

 Lagoon west of Port Moller. Several streeuns 

 in Port Moller proper and in marshy Izembeck 

 Bay produce a limited supply of chum salmon 

 in late July and early August. Port Heiden, 

 near the entrance to Bristol Bay, has a 

 production potential in August of several 

 thousand coho salmon. Fisheries along the 

 Bering Sea Coast of the Peninsula are car- 

 ried on largely by set and drift gill nets. 

 Some purse seines are also used. 



In 1958 red salmon again failed to 

 appear off False Pass in smy quantity, cind 

 consequently the Cape Lutke seine fleet 

 catch was poor. 



The low pink salmon pack, 71,074 

 cases, was substantially bolstered by the 

 unusual catch of 600,000 fish in the Aleu- 

 tians. This species appeared erratically 

 throughout the South Peninsula and was 

 briefly in fair aibundcuice in the False Pass 

 and Sanak Island areas, which normally are 

 not noted for pink salmon. Showings were 

 poor in the usually populous southeastern 

 and southcentral districts and were only 

 fair in the Shumagin traps. Aerial surveys 

 indicated pink salmon escapements were 

 below the level of the 1956 cycle. 



On the north side of the Peninsula, 

 from June to early August, sustained runs of 

 red salmon enter the Bear and Sandy River 



Prospects for a satisfactory pink 

 salmon run in 1959 appear unlikely in view 

 of both the poor escapements and the drought 



1958 PACK 



LONG TERM AVERAGE 



PINK 



COHO 



KING 



Figure 25. --Relationship of 1558 pack to long-term average, Alaska Peninsula. 



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