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Table 42. — Returns from dog salmon. Percentage of total returns taken in each locality and median 
time en route, in days 
Locality of recapture 
Coal Harbor 
trap, Unga 
Island, July 
4—55 tagged, 
19 returned 
Big Valley 
trap, Unga 
Island, Judy 
6—190 
tagged, 45 
returned 
Pacific 
American 
Fisheries 
trap No. 2, 
Ikatan Bay, 
July 11 — 36 
tagged, 18 
returned 
Pacific 
American 
Fisheries 
trap No. 5, 
Morzhovoi 
Bay, July 
13—171 
tagged, 62 
returned 
Pacific 
American 
Fisheries 
trap No. 5, 
Morzhovoi 
Bay, July 
18—172 
tagged, 63 
returned 
Total 
number 
returned 
Per 
cent 
Time 
in days 
Per 
cent 
Time 
in days 
Per 
cent 
Time 
in days 
Per 
cent 
Time 
in days 
Per 
cent 
Time 
in days 
Unga Island 
3.6 
4 
3.7 
9 
9 
Pavlof Bay 
12.7 
14 
14. 2 
12 
5.5 
10 
8.8 
12 
6.4 
9 
62 
Thin Point _ 
1. 6 
26 
1. 2 
12 
2.9 
14 
10 
Morzhovoi Bay 
1.8 
23 
2. 1 
17 
5.5 
9 
23.4 
10 
22. 1 
7 
85 
Ikatan 
1.8 
12 
1. 1 
7 
38.9 
2 
2.3 
5 
5.2 
6 
30 
Naknek 
1.8 
17 
1 
Kvichak. 
1.8 
16 
1 
Nushagak 
7.3 
17 
33 
5 
Togiak 
1.8 
47 
1 
Yukon 
. 5 
1 
Kamchatka 
1.8 
45 
1 
Belkofski Bay 
. 6 
10 
1 
Total 
34.6 
23.7 
50.0 
36.2 
36.6 
207 
In general, it is apparent that the dog salmon are distributed from the Ikatan- 
Shumagin Island district over much the same territory as are the red salmon. 
Tags were reported from various points along the southern shore of the peninsula, 
from Bristol Bay, and from rivers to the north of Bristol Bay. It is interesting 
to note that this wide distribution only obtains in the case of the fish tagged near 
Unga Island; those tagged in Ikatan and Morzhovoi Bays were only taken locally. 
It may be that this is the result of a segregation of races— that the dog salmon 
bound for more distant streams do not enter Ikatan and Morzhovoi Bays — or it 
may be due to the fact that the Unga Island experiments were begun somewhat 
earlier in the season. It has been shown in the case of the red salmon that a much 
larger percentage of the fish found in Ikatan and Morzhovoi Bays late in the season 
are bound for local streams than is true during the height of the season. On 
account of the comparatively small number of dog salmon tagged the data are 
not sufficient to warrant definite conclusions on this point. Although, in so far as 
the general distribution is concerned, the dog salmon found in this district go to 
many of the same streams to which the red salmon found with them go, the per- 
centage going to the more distant streams is apparently much lower, a much higher 
percentage being taken in local fisheries along the southern shore of the peninsula 
Here again, however, the data are not sufficient to warrant final conclusions. 
A unique and very interesting record is that of a fish tagged in the Coal Harbor 
trap on Unga Island and taken in the Pankara River, Kamchatka. The data were 
forwarded to the bureau by the director of the Far Eastern Fishery Board, Vladi- 
vostok. Regarding the recovery of this tag he states: 
On August of this year, in the river Pankara in the district of Karagin, on the eastern shores of 
the peninsula of Kamchatka, a fish with the mark “U. S. B. F. No. 10358” was caught. The 
local residents did not pay any attention to this mark, and the fish was cleaned and salted, and 
in this form it was discovered by the agents of the Far Eastern Fishery Board at Vladivostok. 
This fish, as far as we can judge in its salted state, was of the family Oncorhynchus keta, in 
all probability a male. The length of the fish is 59 centimeters, and it was in the spawning stage, 
as it was in “wedding dress” (changed color) and had grown teeth. 
