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SALMON TAGGING IN ALASKA, 1924-1925 
RETURNS FROM EXPERIMENTS IN ICY STRAIT 
RED SALMON 
The returns from the tagging experiments conducted in Icy Strait are presented 
in Table 2. 
Table 2.— Returns from red salmon tagged in Icy Strait 
:[In this and subsequent tables the figures in the columns headed “Time” indicate, in days, the least and the greatest time that 
elapsed between tagging and reported recapture] 
Locality and date of tagging 
1925 
Total 
num- 
ber 
re- 
turned 
Locality of recapture 
1924: Inian 
Island, 
Pleasant Island 
Inian Island 
July 14 
June 23 
June 24 
June 25 
June 27 
phus, July 1 
July 1 
Num- 
ber 
Time 
Num- 
ber 
Time 
Num- 
ber 
Time 
Num- 
ber 
Time 
Num- 
ber 
Time 
Num- 
ber 
Time 
Num- 
ber 
Time 
1 
7 
1 
7 
2 
Icy Strait: 
1 
3 
1 
4 
1 
2 
3 
2 
2-5 
1 
5 
3 
22 
0-7 
19 
0-6 
0-5 
10 
0-3 
3 
(>) 
6 
0 ) 
67 
1 
7 
1 
3 1 
3 
1 
8 
2 
2 
3 
1 
2 
3 
1 
2 
9 
1-5 
3 
10 miles* west of Point 
1 
42 
1 
40 
2 
8-9 
1 
9 
5 
Near Rocky Island, east- 
ern entrance to Icy 
1 
2 
4 
8-13 
1 
3 
6 
'Chatham Strait: 
1 
18 
1 
1 
8 
2 
3 2 
3 
1 
7 
1 
1 
15 
1 
2 
11-20 
(?) 
1 
1 
1 
IS 
1 
18 
5 
42 
1 
18 
2 
1 
17 
i 
' 13 
2 
1 
9 
1 
1 
40 
2 
30-38 
3 
Lynn Canal: 
Lynn Canal, near Funter 
1 
21 
1 
i 
(?) 
1 
Between Funter Bay and 
1 
13 
1 
6 
2 
1 
15 
1 
Ground Hog Bay-Gasti- 
1 
1 
Naked Island-Lynn Canal. 
i 
1 
20 
1 
1 
8 
1 
Chilkat River-Klukwan... 
i 
(?) 
1 
(?) 
1 
(?) 
3 
2 
33 
27 
24 
18 
5 
16 
125 
5.4 
20.5 
26 
21 
31 
29.4 
36.4 
23.4 
1 All the returns under this heading were obtained from one company, which, unfortunately, though perhaps unavoidably, 
had not kept accurate records of either the time or place of capture. All were reported as taken at either Pleasant or Sisters Islands 
between June 23 and 30. 
3 Taken either at Eagle Point or Gull Cove. 
3 One was recorded as taken on June 24 — obviously an error. 
These data indicate two main routes of migration for the fish entering south- 
eastern Alaska through Icy Strait. Some of the fish turn southward upon reaching 
Chatham Strait and traverse this channel to its junction with Frederick Sound, 
where three of the tagged fish were taken. It is conceivable, of course, that the 
fish taken in Frederick Sound may have reached there by another route, passing 
around the north end of Admiralty Island and south through Stephens Passage, but 
the evidence certainly favors the other hypothesis. No doubt some of the fish taken 
along this route were destined to enter local spawning streams on Admiralty, Chi- 
Chigof, or Baranof Islands. 
