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kings were mild cured, and 60,000 reds were taken, chiefly by dip 
nets, for a saltery. The total catch in 1914 was 299,699 salmon of all 
species. In 1915 three canneries obtained salmon from the Copper 
River, the catch of two being from the delta, while that of the other 
was made at Miles Lake and Abercrombie Canyon. The catch of 
kings at the delta was 3,088 and the up-river catch was 3,828, a total 
of 6,916. The catch of reds at the delta was 196,922 oy the catch 
upstream was 456,480, a total of 653,402. No malo were taken at 
the delta, but 10,098 were caught up the river. Assembling these 
figures, the grand total of all species of salmon taken in 1915 at the 
delta and up river was 670,416. 
To make further a matter of record the details of the salmon 
gilled at Miles Lake and caught by dip nets at the canyon in 1915, 
the following figures are noted: 
CaTcH OF SALMON IN THE CoprpeR RIVER-ABOVE THE DELTA IN 1915. 
Gill nets. | Dip nets, 
UOTICES DS 2. EA eee oe ee ee he ee eee a ee 2 PRO 0 25 ce OOK SqH6 aero 1,774 2, 054 
DUETS: soSGak Sat SeNS Reina se 0 CED ie glans aps hil ai lis os at eed ed i eT 265,170 | 191,310 
10, 098 
With respect to the complaints of the Indians, it may be said that 
as long ago as 1905, when but one cannery was in operation in the 
Copper River district, the same story of a shortage of food was 
heard and the same cry of the destruction of the salmon fishery was 
made as at present when five canneries are in the field, yet the Indians 
have lived through the intervening years and have had an ample 
supply of salmon whenever they made reasonable efforts to get it. 
SALMON HATCHERIES. 
EXTENT. OF OPERATIONS. 
In 1916 fish-cultural operations were conducted at seven hatch- 
eries in Alaska—two Government stations and five private hatcheries. 
One of the latter, the Karluk hatchery, was closed in the summer 
of 1916. Two small egg-collecting stations were also operated, the 
product of which was transferred to the Government hatchery at 
Afognak. The annual capacity of all hatcheries in Alaska is approx- 
imately 350,000,000 red-salmon eggs, of which the two Government 
stations can handle 150,000,000. 
In 1915 the aggregate take of red or sockeye salmon eggs in Alaska 
was 171,627,100. In the corresponding report of Alaska Fisheries 
and Fur Industries for 1915 this number was stated to be 173,499,100, 
which was in error because of certain duplications in the returns 
from one of the stations which had not been discovered at that time. 
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