of sockeye salmon from the area between 

 Cape Lutke and Cape Pankof. One sockeye 

 salmon tagged at Cape Lutke and two tagged 

 at Cape Pankof were taken in East Anchor 

 Cove on the southeastern shore of the Ikatan 

 Peninsula near Cape Pankof (fig. 5). Another 

 sockeye salmon tagged on June 26 at Cape 

 Pankof was recaptured at Red River, Kodiak 

 Island, on July 5. These few recoveries of 

 tags to the east of the tagging area, when con- 

 sidered with the preponderance of Bristol Bay 

 recoveries, confirm that the Cape Lutke fish- 

 ery is the last point at which the westward mi- 

 gration is intercepted south of the Bering Sea. 



Between June 17 and 25, 1961, the Alaska 

 Department of Fish and Game tagged 130 

 sockeye salmon in Stepovak Bay approxi- 

 mately 200 miles northeast of our tagging 

 area.' Thirteen recaptures were made, three 

 near the Stepovak Bay tagging site and the 

 rest at points east of the tagging site--eight 

 at Chignik, one at Karluk, and one at Cook 

 Inlet. In addition, six tagged fish were ob- 

 served passing through the Chignik weir. 

 Thus, simultaneous tagging in June by us 

 and by State personnel at sites 150 miles 

 apart demonstrated migration of sockeye 

 salmon in opposite directions. 



An average rate of travel calculated for 

 44 fish (the number for which complete return 

 information was reported) recaptured at 

 Kvichak and Egegik was 31.3 miles per day, 

 with a standard deviation of 6.2. This agrees 

 closely with an average rate of travel of 

 31 ±6.6 miles per day reported by Hartt 

 (1962) for sockeye salmon traveling from the 

 Pribilof Islands to Bristol Bay in 1958. 

 Elapsed time between tagging and recapture 

 of the 44 fish was 11-20 days, with a mean 

 of 14.9 days. 



As determined from scales, more than 

 70 percent of the salmon tagged were 5- 

 year-olds (table 4). 



Chum Salmon 



Of the 996 chum salmon tagged, 60 (6.0 

 percent) were recovered (table 5). The re- 

 captures were reported from 25 locations, 

 the majority being made at points along the 

 north side of the Alaska Peninsula, in Bristol 

 Bay, and at various rivers along the Bering 

 Sea coast (fig. 6). 



Chum salmon exhibited the same general 

 migration patterns as sockeye, but with a 

 broader area of dispersion. Fish tagged in 

 June along Unimak Island traveled into the 

 Bering Sea and displayed little tendency to 

 move eastward to points along the south side 

 of the Alaska Peninsula. Chum salmon tagged 

 early in July were a mixture of both local 



Table <i. — Age of sockeye salmon tagged off 

 south shore of Unimak Island and 

 southwestern shore of Alaska Peninsula, 

 June 15 to July W, 1961 



' Personal communication, Daniel P. Hennlck, Alaska 

 Department of Fish and Game, April 27, 1962. 



and migratory runs. Of 127 fish tagged in 

 July, 11 were recaptured- -8 from nearby 

 bays on the south side of the Alaska Peninsula, 

 and 1 each from Nelson Lagoon on the north 

 side of the Peninsula; Paramanof Bay, Kodiak 

 Island; and the Shinkushiro River, Hokkaido, 

 Japan. The Japanese recovery, made Novem- 

 ber 9, 1961, was a 4-year-old chum salmon 

 tagged on July 8 in Ikatan Bay. We know 

 of only one other chum salmon tagged within 

 North American waters and recovered in 

 Asia- -one tagged at Coal Harbor, Unga 

 Island, on July 4, 1923, and recovered in 

 the Pankara River, Kamchatka (Gilbert and 

 Rich, 1925). Gilbert and Rich also reported 

 that chum salmon tagged on July 4 and 6 at 

 Unga Island were recaptured in Bristol Bay 

 and the Yukon River. 



The average rates of travel for chum 

 salmon have not been calculated, but elapsed 

 and mean times between tagging and recapture 

 are given in table 6. Evidently chum salmon 

 either travel at a slower rate than sockeye 

 or take a less direct route to spawning 

 destinations. The mean number of days out 

 for 44 sockeye salmon between tagging and 

 recapture in the Kvichak and Egegik area 

 was only 14.9 days; for 5 chum salmon re- 

 covered in the same district, the mean lapse 

 was 21 days. 



Nearly 70 percent of the tagged chum 

 salmon were 4-year-olds (table 7), 



Pink Salmon 



Thirteen (5.3 percent) of the 247 pink 

 salmon tagged were recaptured (table 8). 

 Recovery locations indicate that pink salmon 



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