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BULLETIK OF THE BUREAU OF FISHERIES. 



Ml. Nelson does not regard this information as reliable. Mr. V. L. Derby in a letter dated 

 January 19, 1907, reports that "a few king salmon rounded Point Barrow and entered the lagoons at 

 Pargne(-k, the shooting .station, in the spring of 190G. The natives caught a few in the fall of 190.5 

 and summer of 1900." 



One was .seen by us at the cannery at Wrangell July 13, among many hundred humpbacks. A few 

 were seen in the Taku Inlet cannery July 1-4. Two (1 male and 1 female) were examined at P>Tamid 

 Harbor. July 15. The male was 28 inches Icjng and weighed H pounds; the female was 40.5 inches 

 long and weighed 28 pounds. 



A female seen at the Dundas Bay cannery July 24 was 34 inches long and weighed 17 pounds. 

 The eggs of this fish were very immature. King salmon weighing 35 to 40 pounds were caught in 

 sea-otter nets off Montague Island in Decemlier, 1894, and January, 1895. 



Mr. Rutter saw one at Karluk that was .50 inches long and weighed (50.5 pounds. A female 2 feet 

 9 inches long, weighing 13 pounds and nearly ripe, was seined at Karluk August 4. Mr. A. B. Alexander 

 saw one in 1888 in Nushagak that weighed 85 pounds. On July 18, 1900, j\Ir. Kutchin saw one at 

 Kasilof which weighed 77 pounds. 



Dr. Tarleton H. Bean says in "The Alaskan Salmon and Their Allies:'" • 



Individuals weighing over 100 pounds are on record. At St. Paul, Kodiak, Mr. B. G. Mclntyre 

 weighed one which registered 87.5 pounds without its vicera, and the entire fish must have exceeded 100 

 pounds. Capt. William Kohl has recently told me that he once obtained reliable information in 

 Cook Inlet of a salmon weighing about 140 pounds, and individuals of equal size are reported in the 

 Yukon. 



Mr. John X. ( "obb has a record of one weighing 77 and two others each of 75 pounds, taken by trolling 

 near Ketchikan in 1905. and one of 47 pounds taken at Juneau in 190(>. He gives also the following 

 inf'irmation regarding fish from Bristol Bay: 



Weioht axd Measurements of 51 Kixri Salmon Examined .at Three Brlstol Bay Localities 



IN 1906. 



Bean (1882) records this salmon from Kasilof River, Cook Inlet, and from the Yukon. 

 Gilbert says (1895) that at Departure Bay, May 10-13, 1890, young individuals were feeding on 

 the herring (C. paUmii) and a number were taken on the trolling line. He says further: 



At Unalaska, May 24-27, 1890, the run had hardly begun, though a few individuals were seen. A 

 small pond near the stream which flows into the head of Captains Harbor was full of young salmon of 

 this species, from 2 to 5 inches long, which took the fly greedily. June 3, at the mounth of the Nushagak 

 River, Bristol Bay, an occasional individual was taken. A small run had come into the river a short 

 time before our visit. On June KJ they were running abundantly at Unalaska, but they were not seen 

 on later visits at this point or at Port MoUer. It is worthy of note that their period of greatest abun- 

 dance coincided in time with that of the herring, and their approach to the coast may be determined by 

 the movements of the latter. Their annual appearance in large numbers in Monterey Bay, California, 

 seems to be dependent on the run of anchovies. 



The following notes have been furnished by Mr. John N. Cobb: 



Considerable numbers are taken on hand-lines bated with lierring on the herring grounds on the 

 northern side of Kuiu Island. It is said that young king salmon 10 to 12 inches long can be taken in 

 October on hand-lines from the wharves at Killisnoo. The Indians take large numbers of small kings 

 in Florence Bay. A few are taken in gill-nets (9.5 inch mesh) at Orca, where they are packed with 

 the red salmon. A few are obtained each year in the Copper River delta, where the run begins about 

 May fi. . t. 



King salmon are found in many of the rivers of Alaska during the lireeding season, being most abun- 

 dant, so far as known, in the Unuk, Stikine, Taku, Xushagak, Kvichak, and Ugashik, The rest of the 

 year they an' found scattered pretty much all over the straits, sounds, and liays of Southeast Alaska, 



