20 FISH CULTURAL ASSOCIATION. 
that small cod are abundant in Prince Frederick’s Sound. While 
on a visit to the Aleut village near Graham Harbor, Cook’s In- 
let, we were told by Mr. Cohen that cod are present there through- 
out the year. On the 6th of July, in Refuge Cove, Port Chatham, 
Cook’s Inlet, a great many fine young cod were seined. It was in 
Port Chatham that we first saw capelin schooling. Plenty of 
excellent cod were caught with lines from the vessel. Around 
the island of Kodiak cod are very numerous. On the gth of 
July, while the “Yukon” was lying at anchor in the harbor of 
St. Paul, schools of these fish were seen swimming about her. 
These were fine, lively fish, evidently the first of the summer 
run, which Mr. B. G. McIntyre informed me had not yet begun. 
Young cod were seined on Wooded Island, July 13th. Between 
Kodiak and Unalashka are the extensive and well-known banks 
Portlock, Seminoffsky and the Shumagins, which have furnished 
the great bulk of the cod so far taken in Alaska. 
There are cod banks in the vicinity of Unalashka. We had no 
difficulty in catching all we wanted with a small trawl line, or 
with hand-lines late in July. Native fishermen at Iliuliuk were 
bringing in bidarka loads of beautiful fish, most of which were 
very large, to dry them for use in winter. The wonderful abund- 
ance of young cod three to four inches long was a feature here 
in October. Cod have been reported as far west as the island of 
Atka of the Aleutian chain. Cod have been reported abundant 
in Bristol Bay ; they appear to be uncommon in Norton Sound, 
though occurring again more abundantly further north as far as 
the ice line. The eastern portion of Behring Sea may yet fur- 
nish important supplies of cod in suitable depths, since there is 
an abundance of its favorite food—notably sand launce, capelin, 
smelt, herring and pollock, which last is probably the “ whiting” 
spoken of by Seeman as occurring abundantly in Hotham Inlet, 
Kotzebue Sound. At the island of St. Paul cod are taken rarely, 
the fur seal having a monopoly of the catch. At St. Lawrence 
[sland Messrs. Maynard and Elliott caught cod on the 22nd of 
August, 1874. The great fishing grounds of Kamtchatka are in 
the Okhotsk Sea and the Sea of Kamtchatka. 
We were informed by one of the whaling captains in Plover 
Bay last September, that he has caught cod off the heads off Mar- 
