TAGGING SITES 



BOUNDARIES OF DISTRICT 



OPEN TO FISHING 

 BB 1956 

 ^ 1959 



Figure 18. — Distribution of tagged sockeye salmon in the Igushik, Wood, Kvichak, Naknek, and other 

 Nushagak Bay river escapements, Bristol Bay, 1956 and 1959. 



sockeye salmon were present at almost every tagging 

 site on the east side of the bay, they were most abun- 

 dant in the area between Middle Bluff (site 12) and 

 Ugashik Bay (site 18) (Fig. 15). The escapement dis- 

 tribution of sockeye salmon tagged in 1956 (Figs. 14 

 and 15) showed that some fish of the Egegik River 

 stock were present in the area between the entrance to 

 Ugashik Bay and the mouth of the Naknek River. The 

 distribution of fish tagged in 1955 (Fig. 13) also show- 

 ed that fish bound for the Egegik River occurred off 

 the mouth of the Naknek River. With the exception of 

 tagging site 5 in 1956, few fish tagged on the west side 

 of inner Bristol Bay (Fig. 14) were captured in the 



Egegik fishing district or observed in the spawning es- 

 capement of the Egegik River system. 



Of fish tagged in the area between the outer east 

 side boundary of the Naknek-Kvichak fishing district 

 and Middle Bluff, there was a marked increase in 

 recoveries in the Egegik fishery and observed in the 

 Egegik River escapement (Figs. 13 and 15). This was 

 particularly apparent in the escapement distribution 

 of fish tagged off Middle Bluff and at the outer 

 southeast side boundary of the Naknek-Kvichak 

 fishing district in both 1955 and 1956 (Fig. 19). In 1956 

 the sockeye salmon run to the Naknek-Kvichak dis- 

 trict was almost eight times the run to the Egegik 



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