ALASKA FISHERY AND FUR-SEAL INDUSTRIES, 1922. 15 



Fishing periods in principal hays of Afognak Reservation in 1922. 



Locality. 



Fishin<; 

 began. 



Fishing 

 ended. 



Close season. 



Number 

 days 

 closed. 



Malina Mav 25 



Paramanoff Bay June .'i 



Seal Bay I Jtinp It) 



Little Afognak ] May 24 



Aug. 1 

 July 25 

 ...do.... 

 Sept. 6 



July 17-22. 

 JiilV 5-S. . . 

 June 12-15 

 June 21-24 



To secure information as to escapement, Mr. Baumann visited the 

 headwaters of the various streams and found that an adequate num- 

 ber of sahnon appeared to have ascended to the spawning grounds 

 and that conditions generally compared favorably with previous 

 seasons. 



The total catch of all species of salmon taken in the waters of the 

 Afognak Reservation in 1922 was 173,255, as compared with 192,694 

 in 1921. a decrease of 10 per cent. This decrease is probably due to 

 the fact that fishing activities were less intensive during the latter 

 ])art of the season in the Afognak Reservation than during the same 

 period in 1921. "When the fishing reason was well under way at 

 Karluk, labor troubles arose among the fishermen, who called a gen- 

 eral strike, Avhich necessitated the employment of native fishermen. 

 Several Afognak natives were employed at Uyak Bay by the North- 

 western Fisheries Co. and several in the Karluk district by the Kat- 

 mai Packing Co. 



Commercial catch of salmon in tcaters of Afognak Reservation in 1922. 



* In Ra-spberry Strait. 



* Or Markaway Bay, between Litnik Bay and Danger Bay. 



ALEUTIAN ISLANDS RESERVATION. 



The waters of Aleutian Islands Reservation were embraced in the 

 Alaska Peninsula Fisheries Reservation created by Executive order 

 of February 17, 1922, and the regulations of April 18, 1922, for that 

 reservation were therefore applicable also to fishing in the Aleutian 

 Islands. Because of the remoteness of the district and the slowness 

 of communication by mail it was deemed desirable to allow opera- 

 tions to continue in the season of 1922 under permits granted to local 

 residents and other operators westward of Unimak Island. Permits 

 for the salmon canneries of the Pacific American Fisheries and 

 P. E. Harris & Co., on the eastern end of Unimak Island, are listed 

 54940°— 23 2 



