9 TAGGING SITES 



BOUNDARIES OF DISTRICT 



OPEN TO FISHING 

 ^H 1955 TAGGING 

 VZ^ (956 TAGGING 



158° 



RIVER SYSTEM 

 Figure 19. — Distribution of tagged sockeye salmon in the Kvichak, Naknek, and Egegik River escape- 

 ments, Bristol Bay, 1955 and 1956. 



system (Table 3); in 1955 it was only about four times 

 as large. In both years, however, the numbers of tag- 

 ged fish observed in the escapement to the Egegik 

 system alone and combined Naknek and Kvichak 

 systems were similar (Figs. 13 and 15). In both years, 

 many fish tagged off Middle Bluff were captured in 

 the Naknek-Kvichak fishing district, but only a few 

 were observed in the escapement to the two rivers 

 (Fig. 19). Many of these tagged fish, however, were 

 observed in the escapement to the Egegik River (Fig. 

 19), which indicates that most fish tagged off Middle 



Bluff and recovered in the Naknek-Kvichak fishing 

 district were actually Egegik fish. 



In 1956 and 1957 significantly more of the fish tag- 

 ged at the east side boundary of the Naknek-Kvichak 

 fishing district were observed in the Naknek and 

 Kvichak River escapements than in the Egegik River 

 escapement (Figs. 16 and 19). Of the fish tagged at the 

 same location in 1955, the number observed in the 

 Naknek and Kvichak River escapements (Fig. 13) was 

 only slightly higher than the number observed in the 

 Egegik River escapement. This was probably due to 



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