noted were P. boreal is, P. hypsinotus, P. 

 platyceros and Pandaiopsis dispar. 



As in Southeastern Alaska, Panddus borealis 

 was the dominant species. Good catches of 

 P. borecdis were made in bays and inlets as 

 well as in the offshore waters of the Conti- 

 nental Shelf (fig. 4). Kachemak Bay in Lower 

 Cook Inlet and Marmot Bay off Kodiak Island 

 yielded excellent catches of P. borealis. Around 

 Kodiak Island, good catches were also made 

 in Uganik Bay, Alitak Bay, Raspberry Strait, 

 Kukak Bay, and Shelikof Strait. Fair catches 

 of P. borealis were made in Tutka Bay, West 

 Arm of Port Dick, Taylor Bay, Nuka Passage, 

 East and North Arms of Nuka Bay, between 

 Nuka Island and the Pye Islands, off Ragged 

 Island, and off Cape Douglas. No large catches 

 of this shrimp were taken in Prince William 

 Sound, although fair catches were made in 

 some of the adjacent waters such as Whidby 

 Bay, Day Harbor, Two Arm Bay, south of 

 Puget Bay, and south of Harris Bay. P. borealis 



was relatively abundant in Yakutat Bay in 

 depths ranging from 15 to 233 fathoms, where 

 catches up to 510 pounds per 30 minutes of 

 fishing were made by beam trawl. 



Highest catches of P. borealis occurred from 

 30 to 109 fathoms near Kodiak Island, 30 to 119 

 fathoms between Cape Douglas and the Pye 

 Islands, 50 to 79 and 100 to 119 fathoms between 

 the Pye Islands and Prince William Sound, 

 30 to 39 and 70 to 89 fathoms in Prince William 

 Sound, and 30 to 59 fathoms in Yakutat Bay 

 (tables 8-13). 



Only from the Pye Islands to Cook Inlet 

 were sizeable catches of P. hypsinotus made. 

 The greatest abundance was found in Tutka 

 Bay on the Kenai Peninsula. Good catches 

 were also made in the West Arm of Port 

 Dick and Kachemak Bay. One good catch was 

 made in Uganik Bay, Kodiak Island. Table 14 

 gives the average catch per unit of effort by 

 lO-fathom intervals for this species taken 

 between the Pye Islands and Cape Douglas. 



TABLE 8. --Catch per unit of Gulf shrimp trawl effort by depth for 

 Pandalus borealis taken in the Kodiak Island area, 1958 



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