316 REPORT OF COMMISSIONER OF FISH AND FISHERIES. 1 | 
Our next stopping-place was at Pender Island, British Columbia, 77 
miles north of Comox, where we anchored for the night. There being 
a fine working beach not far from our anchorage, a party landed upon 
it and made several hauls with a 135-foot drag seine. Nothing was 
taken. The current sweeps by the island with considerable velocity, 
which may account for there being no fish here, <A day’s trial might 
have resulted differently. 
St. Paul, Kadiak.—Arrived here on the morning of June 7. Shortly 
after coming to anchor a fishing party landed upon a beach about 13 
miles east of the town. A considerable number of flounders, sculpins, 
and salmon trout were caught in the drag seine. The following morn- 
ing a second visit was made to the same place, thinking to lay in a 
supply of trout, but only one specimen was taken. A few cod were 
captured in the seine; they were very small and sickly looking. 
Several taken on hand lines by the crew, from the ship, were much 
more thrifty in appearance. Several native women and boys were 
noticed fishing with hand lines from the beach; the cod which they 
eaught were small and emaciated. The white population of St. Paul 
always fish for cod and other bottom fish a mile or two from the islands, 
where plump and healthy fish are to be found. 
Humboldt Harbor, Popof Island.—One hundred and fifty flounders 
and a few salmon (small fry) were caught in a drag seine at the mouth 
of a small creek. Two small halibut, weighing 5 pounds each, were 
taken on a hand line from the ship, the result of a day’s fishing. 
Repeated hauls were made with the drag seine at Humboldt Harbor, 
but all species of fish except flounders were as scarce as they had been 
a week previous. <A few cod and halibut were caught over the side of 
the ship; they were of fine quality, but too small for market. 
Other islands of the Shumagin group.—F ishing was next carried on at 
Northeast Harbor, Sandy Cove, and Yukon Harbor. The first two 
places are situated on Little Koniushi Island, the last on Big Koniushi. 
At Sandy Cove cod were plentiful, 50 being caught in a short time; 
average weight, 74 pounds; the largest 164 and the smallest 4 pounds. 
At Northeast Harbor and Yukon Harbor only a few flounders were 
caught. The beaches being composed of large stones, it was difficult 
to find a place where the seine could be hauled. 
Mist Harbor, Nagai Island.—This is one of the finest harbors for a 
cod-fishing station in the Shumagin group. It is perfectly landlocked, 
' and large enough to hold a large fleet of fishing vessels. The water is 
| quite deep in all parts, with twenty odd fathoms within an eighth of a 
_ nile from the shore at the entrance. While cod are scarce in its near 
vicinity, it would nevertheless be a suitable place to establish fish- 
houses, wharfs, ete., for the curing of fish. 
The drag seine was hauled in all parts of the harbor, but collecting 
was found to be poor. One salmon was seen to jump near the mouth of 
a small mountain stream, but repeated hauls failed to catch a specimen. 
It is very probable, however, that later in the season salmon strike here 
