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importance the subsidiary channel known as the Kwiguk, which 
branches off from the Kwikluak Pass, a few miles above its mouth. 
Tt may safely be inferred that the native fish camps are located at 
the most favorable fishing sites. These are occupied year after year 
and generation after generation by the same families and their de- 
scendants. Where native fishing villages are most thickly grouped 
will be found the largest and most unfailing supply of salmon. With 
this as a basis, the writers are compelled to conclude that the south 
mouth serves as the migration route for the greater part of the 
Yukon run. While no data are available for an estimate, it is not 
considered beyond the bounds of probability that nine-tenths of the 
entire run enter by the Kwikluak Pass and its subsidiary channel, 
the Kwiguk. About 100 families of natives were fishing in this 
district in 1920, while not to exceed 10 families were seen in the 
middle mouth below Dogfish Village. In no case did the latter 
ee have equal success with those camped on the Kwikluak 
ass. 
It is on the Kwiguk Channel, just below its emergence from the 
Kwikluak, that the floating cannery of the Carlisle Packing Co. 
has been located during the two seasons of its operation in the delta. 
Protected from the heavy southerly winds which blow up the main 
channel during the summer months, this site is within easy distance 
of the main fishing grounds in the lower part of the Kwikluak Chan- 
nel and among the offshore shoals and islands. Inasmuch as the 
Yukon salmon appear largely to travel along the banks, in the eddies, 
and along the margins of submerged banks, it is believed possible 
during a favorable fishing season to secure from this location as a 
base a very considerable proportion of the salmon of the Kwikluak 
Channel. Fortunately, no commercial fishing for export is per- 
mitted in the Kwiguk Channel. Several native families were lo- 
cated on this channel in 1920, and one white trader maintained a 
wheel. Good catches of king salmon and chums were secured at 
all of these camps, but it was believed that the run of kings was 
proportionally not as heavy as in the main channel. 
COMMERCIAL FISHERY OPERATIONS IN YUKON DELTA IN 1920. 
The fishery operations of the Carlisle Packing Co. in 1920 were 
conducted principally in the south or Kwikluak mouth of the river 
and beyond that mouth among the seaward channels which diverge 
from it. 'The mouth of the Kwikluak Channel was designated as 
it was during the previous season by a stake set in the right or north- 
ern bank on the projecting point of land at Ingrakaklak (see U. S. 
C. & G. S. chart 9373) and by a stake set on the left or southern 
bank of the channel at the entrance to the well-marked lagoon some 
half mile below Nilak. 
A few fishing camps were established by the company as far up the 
Kwikluak Channel as Dogfish Village, where the main river makes 
its first grand division into the Kwikluak Channel and a channel 
which later divides to reach the middle and the Apoon mouths. 
Above Dogfish Village no fishing camps were established by the 
company, but they purchased limited numbers of salmon from a few 
independent fishermen, who operated at points below the mouth of 
Clear River near Andreafski. 
