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BULLETIN OP THE BUREAU OP FISHERIES 
Table 34. — Returns of red salmon from each tagging in Morzhovoi Bay, Pacific American Fisheries 
traps Nos. 8, 8, and 2. Percentage taken in each locality and median time en route in days 
[Number of fish tagged, 2.026J 
Locality of recapture 
Approxi- 
mate 
distance 
(stand- 
ard 
miles) 
June 20 — 800 
tagged, 187 
returned 
June 30 — 592 
tagged, 250 
returned 
July 8 — 436 
tagged, 110 
returned 
July 20—198 
tagged, 63 
returned 
Total 
number 
returned 
Percent- 
age re- 
turned 
Average 
time 
in days 1 
Per 
cent 
Time 
in days 
Per 
cent 
Time 
in days 
Per 
cent 
Time 
in days 
Per 
cent 
Time 
in days 
Morzhovoi Bay 
3.2 
6 
1.2 
3 
2. 1 
10 
11. 1 
6 
64 
3 26 
6 2 
5 
2.7 
50+ 
2 
40+ 
16 
79 
50 
Ikatan Bay 
20 
11.4 
5 
31.8 
3 
7.8 
3 ' 
8. 1 
4 
329 
16.24 
3.3 
Nelson’s Lagoon 
150 
.4 
18 
3 
. 14 
18 
Bear River 
190 
.6 
18 
.7 
16 
9 
.44 
17 
Bear Lake 
210 
. 1 
.2 
1.5 
6 
.30 
Ugasbik _ 
320 
. 1 
17 
.2 
31 
.5 
13 
4 
. 20 
Egegik 
350 
1 
21 
.5 
21 
2.1 
13 
20 
.99 
Little BecharoCE Lake 
420 
. 1 
63 
1 
. 05 
Naknek 
370 
3.2 
27 
4.7 
17 
4.8 
15 
1 
8 
77 
3. 80 
Kvichak 
370 
2.6 
23 
2 
16 
3 
14 
46 
2. 27 
Nushagak. 
360 
. 2 
16 
22 
5 
. 25 
Thin Point 
25 
.3 
7 
.7 
5 
5 
6 
15 
.74 
6 
Cold Bay 
40 
.1 
20 
.2 
3 
.9 
14 
2 
5 
10 
.49 
9.9 
Pavlof Bay. 
90 
.5 
23 
1 
11 
4 
.20 
17.2 
Total... 
23 
42.3 
25. 1 
31.7 
2 609 
30. 16 
1 See footnote 3 to Table 30. 2 One other tag was returned but with no data. 
In general, there is no great difference between the results obtained here and 
those obtained from the experiments in Ikatan Bay. Similar high percentages of 
recapture were reported from Morzhovoi Bay, Ikatan Bay, and Bristol Bay. More 
fish were reported from Ikatan Bay than from any other locality (16 per cent), 
although it might have been expected that, since the fish were tagged in Morzhovoi 
Bay, more returns would have been reported from that locality. On the contrary, 
but 3 per cent were from Morzhovoi Bay, as compared with the 16 per cent taken 
in Ikatan Bay. A somewhat higher percentage of return was reported from local 
spawning grounds and from points to the eastward of Morzhovoi Bay than was the 
case with the experiments in Ikatan Bay — nearly 1.43 per cent, as compared with 
less than 0.26 per cent. 4 This fact will be more readily understood, however, in 
connection with the discussion of the returns from trap No. 5. 
MORZHOVOI BAY, PACIFIC AMERICAN FISHERIES TRAP NO. 5 
A striking difference is observed in the results (presented in Table 35) obtained 
from the experiments conducted at this point. These are remarkable in that a 
comparatively small percentage of return was reported from Bristol Bay, while 
nearly 17 per cent came from local fishing grounds to the eastward of Morzhovoi 
Bay. In none of the other experiments begun in Ikatan and Morzhovoi Bays was 
more than a relatively insignificant percentage of the returns reported from these 
local fisheries, while considerably higher percentages were in all cases reported from 
Bristol Bay. This difference is not due to differences in the time of tagging, since 
other experiments, begun at approximately the same dates but in other traps in 
Morzhovoi and Ikatan Bays, show the usual high percentage of returns from Bristol 
Bay and few returns from points to the eastward. It is quite apparent that the 
1 See footnote 3, page 55. 
