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The different application of gear to the different species is an inter- 

 esting feature of this table. Of the two principal species, reds and 

 pinks, it will be noted that of reds 54 per cent were taken in gill nets, 

 25 per cent by seines, and only about 20 per cent in traps. These 

 figures are due to the great preponderance of gUl netting for reds in 

 the Bristol Bay region, where practically one-half the total catch is 

 made. On the other hand, over 60 per cent of the catch of pinks was 

 made by seines in southeast Alaska, in which section over 97 per cent 

 of the total catch of this species was made. Only 1^ per cent were 

 taken in gill nets, the mesh not being gauged for such small fish; 

 35 per cent were taken in traps. 



Catch op Salmon in 1911, by Species and Apparatus, for Each Geographic 

 Section of Alaska. 



