PACIFIC COD FISHERIES. 23 
Along the shore of Unimak Island, from Cape Pankof to Cape 
Lutke, codfish used to be quite numerous during the summer months. 
This ground is really the inshore portion of Davidson Bank. At 
Dora Harbor, on the south side of Ikatan Peninsula, Unimak Island, 
are located two shore stations, and the fishermen from these fish out 
around Bird Island. For a year or two after the stations were 
opened they made big catches, but after that they dwindled until 
about 50,000 fish now represent the combined catches. Several 
schooners usually fish on the main ground a few miles offshore dur- 
ing the spring months, off Cape Pankof being a favorite spot. 
Just off Akutan Harbor, on Akutan Bay, cod are said to be 
abundant. While the schooner Vega, of Seattle, was taking aboard 
water in the harbor late in June, 1911, her fishermen, hand-lining 
from dories around the mouth of the harbor, caught 1,500 cod on 
one day and 2,700 the day following. The Albatross investigations 
in the same year showed that cod were abundant and quite large 
close inshore off North Head, Akutan Island. 
The Albatross investigations showed that cod were abundant di- 
rectly off Chernoffsky Bay, on the Bering Sea side of Unalaska 
Island, during the summer, and it is very probable that investiga- 
tion will some day disclose many other inshore banks at various 
places along the Aleutian Islands where cod can be caught at all or 
some seasons of the year. 
But little is known of the inshore banks on the north side of the 
Alaska Peninsula, mainly because, owing to the lack of safe and 
convenient harbors adjacent to the banks, shore stations can not be 
operated. 
BANKS ON THE ASIATIC SHORE. 
But little is known of the extent of the cod banks along the Sibe- 
rian coast, as no detailed or even sectional surveys have been made of 
them. Our own vessels have done more toward showing their extent 
and productiveness than those of any other nation. The principal 
banks lie in the Okhotsk Sea and the Asiatic side of Bering Sea. 
How far north the fish range is still undetermined, but it is probable 
that they will be found about as far north on the Asiatic shore of 
Bering Sea as they are on the American shore; that is, to St. Law- 
rence Island. They are said to be found as far south as Chosen 
(Korea) and northern Japan. 
HISTORY OF THE PACIFIC CODFISHERY. 
The history of the Pacific codfishery is a record of the strenuous 
struggle of a few individuals and companies against its giant brother 
on the Atlantic coast, which, backed by great wealth, the prestige 
and advantage gained by years of unopposed command of the Amer- 
