THIRTEENTH ANNUAL MEETING. III 
First, which had an exposure of forty-five seconds, only 6 were 
impregnated. 
Of the second, with exposure of three minutes, 31 were im- 
pregnated. 
Of the last, thirty minutes exposed, 208 remained that were 
good. 
This is only the result in the case of one fish, but if it should 
prove the same in all, is it any wonder that fish-culture isa grand 
SuCCeSss? 
FISH AND. FISHING AL POINT (bak KOW. 
ARCTIC ALavaik i. 
BY JOHN MURDOCH. 
I have been spending the last two years among the Esquimaux 
of Northwestern Alaska, and it has occurred to me that a short 
account of the fishes that they use for food, and the methods they 
employ in capturing them, might be of interest to the Fish-Cul- - 
tural Association. 
Point Barraw, as you probably all know, is the northwestern 
extremity of the Continent of North America, the place where 
the coast line, after running nearly northeast from Behring’s 
Strait, turns and runs in a direction a little south of east toward 
the Mackenzie river and the northwest passage. The point 
itself is a long, narrow sandspit, continuing the northeast direc- 
tion of the coast line for five miles, and then bending to the east- 
southeast, running on for some three miles more, thus enclosing 
a sheet of water known as Elson bay. Just at the elbow of the 
point is a little knoll of land somewhat higher than the rest, and 
this is occupied by an Esquimaux village. There is another vil- 
lage about eleven miles down the coast to the southwest. The 
inhabitants of these two villages together number about three 
hundred men, women and children. Fish forms an important 
article of their diet, which consists, I may say, entirely of animal 
