SALMON-TAGGING EXPERIMENTS IN ALASKA, 1926 



By 



WILLIS H. RICH, Ph. D., Chief Investigator, Alaska Salmon Fisheries 



and 



ARNIE J. SUOMELA, B. S., Warden, Alaska Fisheries Service 



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INTRODUCTION 



Continuing the series of salmon-tagging experiments that have been conducted 

 in Alaska since 1922, approximately 13,000 salmon were tagged during the summer of 

 1926 in the channels of southeastern Alaska. The methods employed have been 

 adequately described in previous publications. 1 During 1926 a special effort was 

 made to supplement the experiments of 1924 and 1925 in southeastern Alaska; 

 and, in general, the tagging that was done early in the season in 1926 was carried 

 out in localities where it had been done late in the other years, and vice versa. 



In the report on the experiments of 1924 and 1925 a list of localities from which 

 returns had been obtained was given. The 1926 returns came from many of these 

 localities and from a few not contained in the list. It does not seem necessary to 

 repeat the list in this report, as it is readily available to anyone interested; but we 

 present the following supplemental list of localities that do not appear in the previous 

 list, but from which returns were reported in 1926. Any of the places mentioned 

 in this report can be identified from the two lists. 



MINOR LOCALITIES FBOM WHICH TAGGED FISH WERE RECORDED 



Alder Grove. Three miles north of Lime Point, Hetta Inlet. 

 Annette Point. Southern point of Annette Island, Clarence Strait. 

 Arboleda Point. Northwestern point of Suemez Island, Bucareli Bay. 

 Auke Bay. Mainland shore, northeastern end of Stephens Passage. 



Baker Island. Bucareli Bay. 



Bay Point. Prince of Wales Island, 1 mile southeast of Point Colpoys. Western point of entrance 

 to Farragut Bay. 



Bradfield Canal. Indenting the mainland north of Cleveland Peninsula. 

 Browson Island. Ernest Sound, southeast of Etolin Island. 

 Burke Channel. Queen Charlotte Sound, British Columbia. 



1 Experiments in Tagging Adult Red Salmon, Alaska Peninsula Fisheries Reservation, Summer of 1922. By Charles H. 

 Gilbert. Bulletin, U. S. Bureau of Fisheries, Vol. XXXIX, 1923-1924 (1923), pp. 39-50, 1 fig. Washington. Second Experiment 

 in Tagging Salmon in the Alaska Peninsula Fisheries Reservation, Summer of 1923, By Charles H. Gilbert and Willis H. Rich. 

 Ibid, Vol. XLII, 1926 (1925), pp. 27-75, 12 figs. Salmon-Tagging Experiments in Alaska, 1924 and 1925. By Willis H. Rich. 

 Ibid (1926), pp. 109-146, 1 fig. 



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