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Four visits were paid to TJnalaska during the season, and more or 

 less collecting was done at each. On -Tune 28 the drag seine was hauled 

 several times along the beach or spit which forms Dutch Harbor, but 

 only 2 flounders and 4 sea trout were thus obtained. This beach has 

 never afforded good results in previous trials; in most places it makes 

 off very abruptly, and the bottom is nearly devoid of such life as attracts 

 flounders and other food-fishes. Clams are fairly abundant, and at low 

 tide the crews of whalers, men-of-war, and other vessels may frequently 

 be seen collecting them. 



On July 18 a party from the Albatross, in company with one from 

 the whaling bark Stamboul, made a seining trip to Glacier Bay, about 

 7£ miles from Dutch Harbor, for the purpose of obtaining a supply 

 of salmon. A whaleboat belonging to the latter ship was used for the 

 trip, and three hauls of the large seine sufficed to fill it comfortably 

 full with dressed fish. The next day a sufficient quantity was taken 

 in the same place to supply the wants of four other whalers anchored 

 in the harbor. 



Before leaving Unalaska on this trip three-fourths of a barrel of clams, 

 80 starry flounders, and several hundred small trout were secured for 

 transplanting to St. Paul Island, the fishes being intended for the lakes 

 on that island and the clams for the muddy flats of a lagoon a short dis- 

 tance from the settlement. Starry flounders had always been quite 

 abundant at Unalaska, but on this occasion we were unable to obtain 

 more than 2 individuals after repeated hauls of the seine in several 

 parts of the harbor. A visit was then paid to a fresh-water lake at 

 Summer Bay, at the southern entrance to Unalaska Harbor, for the 

 purpose of procuring the trout, but to our surprise many starry floun- 

 ders were taken with them in the seine. The sea water does not approach 

 nearer than one-third of a mile from the mouth of the lake, and no salt 

 water ever enters it, but a rapid stream flows from the lake to the sea. 

 The natives set nets for salmon across the stream during July and a 

 part of August. It would, therefore, appear that the flounders must 

 ascend the stream to the lake. 



During the second week in August salmon and herring were the only 

 fishes obtained by us in Unalaska Harbor, and neither of these species 

 was then abundant. Herring strike this part of the island every 

 season, generally by the 1st of August. They are then found close 

 inshore in considerable numbers, but the writer has never seen them 

 schooling, nor has he been able to learn that they do so. It is probable 

 that they spawn in the spring about the same time that they do in 

 southeastern Alaska. 



Between the 4th and the 8th of September seine hauls were made in 

 Summer Bay, but without success. Trout were numerous in the adja- 

 cent lake, and many were captured both by seining and by hook and 

 line. Young salmon Mere also abundant. 



Four days in the first part of July were spent at the Bay of Water- 

 falls. Adak Island. Salt water fishes were not abundant, but trout 



