The pink salmon which are available 

 to the fishery are all mature fish. 



Table l.--Age composition of samples sind calculated age composition 

 of Pacific red salmon catch, 1957. 



1/ Samples taken aboard motherships by the Japanese Fishery Agency. Data taken 

 from INPFC Document No. II8, "Interim Report on Salmon Investigations in the 

 North Pacific in 1957 under the Research Program of the International North 

 Pacific Fisheries Commission." September, 1957- 



2/ Japanese high-seas fishery catch data on red salmon taken from INPFC Dociiment 

 No. 124, "I957 Salmon Catch by Japanese Mothership Fishery in Aleutian Waters, 

 in Numbers of Fish." 



