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FISHEEIES OF THE UNITED STATES. 



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Statement regarding the catch of the salmon fisheries on Kodiak Island and in Cook's Inlet, 

 Alaska Territory, during the year 1882— Continued. 



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Names of companies en- 

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King 

 salmon. 



Disposition of 

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Remarks. 



April 15-0ct. 5 

 April 5-0ct. 15 

 April 5-0ct. 15 



June-Sept 



May-Sept 



FISHERIES AT KARLUK, 

 KODIAK ISLAND. 



"Western Fur and Trad- 

 ing Company, San 

 Francisco. 



Alaska Commercial 

 Company, San Fran- 

 cisco. 



Smith, Hirsh &Co., San 

 Francisco. 



FISHERY AT KENAI, COOK'S 

 INLET. 



Alaska Commercial 

 Company, San Fran- 

 cisco. 



CANNERY AT KASSILOV 

 RIVER, COOK'S INLET. 



Cutting & Co., San Fran- 

 cisco. 



250 



6,000 



Shipped to San 

 Francisco. 



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do 



Shipped to San 

 Francisco. 



Shipped to San 

 Francisco. 



35,000 pounds dried fish, 



for use of native hunting 



parties. 

 15,000 pounds dried fish, 



for use of native hunting 



parties. 



Saint Paul, Kodiak Island, Alaska, 



October 28, 1882. 



The herring of Alaska, Glupea mirabilis Girard, resembles G. liarengus 

 pretty closely in most respects. It is just as abundant in the waters 

 of that Territory as liarengus is in the Atlantic, and it has the same 

 good qualities ; widely distributed and excessively abundant, invalu- 

 able both for bait and for food, it must be considered^ as one of the 

 most important species in Alaska. No finer herring exist than those 

 that may be seined at llinliuk, and sometimes near Saint Paul, Kodiak, 

 or in Prince Frederick Sound. They are as plentiful as menhaden were 

 in the early days of that fishery in Peconic Bay, Long Island ; vessels 

 have sailed for hours through their immense schools; acres of grass are 

 sometimes covered with eggs deposited by the fish, which are carried 

 beyond the usual tide level by an extraordinary flood and then left 

 on the land by the receding waters. An accident of this kind occurred 

 early in July, 1S80, under my own observation, on a sand-spit in Chu- 

 gachik Bay, Cook's Inlet. Glupea mirabilis has been found as far north 

 as Port Clarence ; it is, however, most abundant in the Gulf of Alaska. 

 In 1880 the Western Pur and Trading Company sent down to San Fran- 

 ciseo five hundred boxes of smoked herring, 6 quarter-barrels, and 18 

 full barrels of salt herring, by way of experiment. A very important 

 industry may be established with this species when a sufficient demand 

 arises for its products. 



The family Gatostomidw is represented by the common long-nosed 

 sucker, Catostomus longirostrum Le Sueur, which cannot be called an 



