ALASKA FISHERY AND FUR-SEAL INDUSTRIES, 1922. 



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Native villages on the Kuskokwim River and approximate number of salmon 



dried in each. 



BELOW BETHEL. 



Name of village. 



Apokak 



Davis Pt 



Quickchogamute . 



Kiktok 



.Quigiung 



Quigiugh 



Ichikslikomute. . 



Lomavik 



Moravian Mission 



Number 

 of fami- 

 lies. 



Number 

 of fish. 



8,700 

 1,500 

 7,500 

 2,200 

 1,750 

 7, 000 

 20,000 

 9,000 

 2,200 



Name of village. 



Napagahogamute 



Napaiskak 



Kalagiinute (Lower) 

 Kalagamute (Upper) 



Kokokamute 



Popokamute 



Four camps 



Total 



Number 

 of fami- 

 lies 



Number 

 of fish. 



15,000 



5,500 

 7,500 

 5,500 

 20,000 

 30,000 

 12,000 



155,350 



BETHEL AyD ABOVE. 



MARKERS. 



The location of the markers at the mouth of the Kuskokwim River did not 

 prove satisfactory to the fishermen and packers on tlie lower river, as markers 

 had never before been placed on the Kuskokwim, the regulations being pro- 

 mulgated only at the close of last season. 



Upon arriving on the Kuskokwim the markers were placed immediately 

 at points dii'ected by the bureau, the one at Popokamute Point being fixed 

 June 15 and the one at Beacon Point June 16. Following this all the operators 

 were visited and informed of the ruling of the bureau and also of the further 

 fact that tlie markers were already in position. In conversation with them 

 it became apparent that they all were of the opinion that the markers were 

 too far down the river. They felt it was imposing a needless hardship upon 

 fishermen to ask them to go outside the line drawn across the river by the 

 markers, it being practically a big bay, wide open to the sea, with rough 

 weather nearly all the time and generally a sea running. The present fishing 

 operations, they felt, were of such small volume, and the methods and gear 

 employed in the catch would be considered so ineffective where large opera- 

 tions are under way in other portions of Alaska that it was needless to go 

 so far down the stream. 



The writer agreed with them in the matter of the .small demand made upon 

 the river at this stage of the fishing and packing operations, but informed 

 them at the same time that the prohibitive locations were made as a matter of 

 stream protection in case other and larger operators came in ; tliat the bureau 

 had in view such efficient protection of the Kuskokwim as would keep the river 

 runs of salmon up to their present level throughout perpetuity. The con- 

 versations ended by all admitting that as the regulation was made and in 

 force they would have to abide by it for the present, but nearly all of tliem 

 expressed the hope that the matter would be reconsidered and tlie markers 

 placed farther upstream so that they would have at least some sheltered water 

 to fish iu. 



