240 REPORT OF COMMISSIONER OF FISH AND FISHERIES. 
Port Haiden.—Port Haiden is said to be a good harbor, but we did 
not examine it. Should a survey show it to be safe and easy of ap- 
proach, it will prove a great convenience to vessels employed on the 
northern portion of the bank. 
Ugashik River.—The Alaska Commercial Company’s schooner Pearl 
enters the Ugashik River, but there is a wide bar to cross having intri- 
cate channels, strong currents, and usually a heavy swell. Once 
inside, there is a good harbor, but it could hardly be considered avail- 
able for the ordinary purposes of a fisherman. 
Head of Bristol Bay.—The head of the bay to the northward of a line 
drawn from the Ugaguk River to Cape Constantine has no value as a 
cod-fishing ground. The water is not only too fresh, but the enormous 
discharge from various streams in the vicinity, in conjunction with the 
naturally strong tidal streams, induces a current which holds in sus- 
pension sufficient sand and mud to account for the absence of codfish 
without looking for other causes. We took scattering specimens, it is 
true, but their emaciated condition was sufficient evidence of their 
having strayed from their usual feeding-grounds. 
Naknek River.—Salmon are found in the Naknek River, and there 
are one or more firms engaged in that industry. Vessels of any size 
may reach an anchorage off the mouth of the river by keeping the eastern 
shore aboard, notwithstanding the inaccuracy of the charts. Shoal 
water will be found whenever the western side is approached. 
Nushagak River.—The salmon fisheries of the Nushagak River have 
assumed important proportions, and will doubtless attract numbers of 
people to that region. It will have little interest for the cod fishermen 
except aS a possible port of refuge, where wood and water and such 
supplies as they would be likely to need can be obtained. It has not 
been considered a desirable place to visit, and the defective charts, 
strong tides, numerous shoals, and liability to encounter thick weather 
all militate against it; but with the surveys made by this vessel and 
the assistance of native pilots, to be found at Protection Point, a fishing 
schooner should be able to enter and leave the river with comparatively 
little risk or delay. 
Kulukak Ground.—Kulukak Bay occupies a large portion of the 
region between Capes Constantine and Newenham, including the Wal- 
rus Group, Hagemeister Island, and Cape Peirce. As codfish are found 
in various isolated spots hardly deserving the appellation of banks, we 
have, for convenience, included the region under the single title of the 
Kulukak Ground. There are extensive shoals outside of Hagemeister 
and the Walrus islands, 6 fathoms being found about 18 miles to the 
southward of the latter. The spots are outside of these shoals, as well 
as to the eastward and westward of them, in from 12 to 25 fathoms, 
where codfish may be taken at times quite plentifully, but they are 
smaller than those on Baird Bank, 
