80 BULLETIN OF THE BUREAU OF FISHERIES 



PINK SALMON 



Twenty-six of 137 pink salmon tagged near Cape Fox in 1926 were recaptured. 

 The data are given in Table 4 and graphically in Figure 3. 



Table 4. — Returns from pink salmon tagged in the Cape Fox region, June 24 to July 1 — 137 tagged 



26 returned (19 per cent) 



Locality of recapture 



Clarence Strait: 



Percy Islands 



Driest Point 



Bebm Canal: 



Roe Point 



Sykes Point 



Revillagigedo Channel: 



Point Higgins 



Crab Bay 



Lucky Cove 



Point Alava 



Num- 

 ber 



Time, in 



days 



39 

 13-21 



11 

 13-35 



Locality of recapture 



Revillagigedo Channel— Continued. 



Slate Island.. 



Boca de Quadra 1 



Kirk Point 



Foggy Point and Bay 



Tree Point 



Dixon Entrance: Cape Pox 



British Columbia: 



Steamer Passage - 



Nass River 



China Hat Island 



Num- 

 ber 



Time, in 

 days 



11 

 13-19 



16 

 7-9 

 7-9 



40 



35 

 55 

 11 



1 One recorded as taken before the date of tagging 



DIXON £ N T ft A fif C £ 2^«iw|^ ' 



Fig. 3. — Distribution of pink salmon tagged in Cape Fox region, June 24 to July 1, 1926 



These fish were taken chiefly in Revillagigedo Channel and contiguous waters, 

 not far from the point of tagging. Only three (11.5 per cent) went south into British 

 Columbia. The previous experiments of 1924 and 1925 came later in the season, 

 when the run of pinks was at its height. As a result many more were tagged and 

 retaken, but the general distribution was approximately the same. The percentages 

 taken in the various localities vary considerably from year to year, but this is prob- 

 ably due (in part, at least) to the small number of fish tagged in 1926. No tagged 

 pinks were taken in British Columbia in 1924, but 10.8 per cent of the recoveries 

 of 1925 were taken there — approximately the same as in 1926. 



