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the Hoochenoo cod bank, which averaged three pounds each when 
dried. The largest he saw weighed thirty pounds. He saw a few 
young fish. A cod caught by us in the Harbor of Port Mulgrave, 
Yakutat Bay, June 24th, measured 870 millimeters. It wasstout 
and heavy, but sick. In Port Chatham, Cook’s Inlet, two healthy 
fish among a lot taken July 5th, measured 722 millimeters and 
750 millimeters ; one of these was a spent female. Off Marmot 
Island (Portlock Bank) on the 8th of July, we caught with hand- 
lines in a very short time preceding dark, twenty-six cod, fine, 
plump and healthy, averaging not less than twelve pounds. Capt. 
D. C. Bowen, who passed twenty-five years on the eastern fish- 
ing banks, gave me the following information about the shore 
fish around Kodiak : | 
First comes the ‘herring school,” consisting of medium size 
fish, continuing from May rst to June or July; then the “lant 
school,” short, thick, well-meated, but not so large as the herring 
school, June to July, After this the “capelin school” of good- 
sized fish, about equal to Newfoundland cod, July to September. 
Last, the “ squid school,” averaging twelve pounds each. All of 
these are shore fish ; the bank fish are always larger. Capt. J. C. 
Caton, who is well acquainted with the Shumagin fishery, says 
that in 1867 the “Sanborn” took 60,000 fish, averaging 2% lbs., 
ready for market. Now vessels will average eighty tons (60,000 
fish) of 2% lbs. each. Capt. C. told me that none of the fish are 
so large as the George’s cod. Capt. Andrew Anderson informed 
me that when he was mate in the “ Wild Gazelle,” in 1873, she 
took on Seminoffsky Bank 93,000 fish in three months, averaging 
2% lbs. dressed. In 1874 she caught 97,000, averaging 3 lbs. Capt. 
H. R. Bowen, of St. Paul, Kodiak, gives the average of the shore 
fish there as six pounds round, and says that the largest weigh 
fourteen pounds. Thomas Devine, in charge of McCollum & Co.’s 
fishing station at Pirate Cove, Shumagins, gives me as an aver- 
age of the fish there something between eight and twelve pounds, 
the largest weighing fifty poundsround. Onthe roth of July Isaw 
many fish brought to this station by dorymen. One of the men 
had 157 for his day’s catch, none of them being less than twenty- 
six inches in length, and many of them weighing not less than 
thirty pounds ; the smallest weighed about eight according to my 
