131 
SALMON TAGGING IN ALASKA, 1924-1925 
Table 12. — Returns from coho salmon tagged at Ruins Point, Sumner Strait — Continued 
Locality and date of tagging 
!' 
1924: July 
12 to 
Aug. 3 
1925 
Total 
num- 
Locality of recapture 
July 18 
July 20 
July 21 
July 22 
July 24 
July 25 
ber 
re- 
turned 
Num- 
ber 
Time 
Num- 
ber 
Time 
Num- 
ber 
Time 
Num- 
ber 
Time 
Num- 
ber 
Time 
Num- 
ber 
Time 
Num- 
ber 
Time 
Clarence Strait, south of 
Tolstoi Point: 
Northwest Cove 
1 
14 
1 
Ship Island 
2 
10-18 
1 
19 
2 
13-15 
2 
12-13 
7 
Point Niblaek 
1 
13 
1 
22 
1 
20 
1 
13 
4 
Grindall Point 
1 
8 
1 
24 
1 
16 
1 
20 
1 
18 
5 
Island Point 
4 
11-26 
1 
27 
5 
Skowl Point.. _ 
1 
27 
1 
Vallenar Bay (north end 
of Gravina Island) 
1 
20 
i 
16 
1 
2 
Dali Head 
2 
22-24 
1 
21 
3 
Metlakatla . 
1 
16 
1 
Driest Point 
1 
15 
i 
Halibut Creek 
1 
34 
Chichagof Bay ... 
1 
21 
1 
Stone Rock Bay 
1 
17 
1 
Cape Chacon... 
1 
26 
1 
22-26 
2 
Ernest Sound: 
Onslow Island 
2 
13-14 
2 
Union Bay... 
2 
17-18 
2 
South end of Etolin Island. 
i 
( s ) 
1 
Vixen Inlet 
1 
24 
1 
Point Eaton 
i 
18 
1 
Behm Canal: 
Bond Bay 
1 
0 
1 
13 
2 
Clover Passage 
1 
37 
1 
Grant Island 
1 
31 
1 
Yes Bay hatchery 
i 
85 
1 
Revillagigedo Channel: 
Duke Island 
1 
71 
1 
De Long Island 
1 
28 
1 
Foggy Point and Bay 
1 
17 
1 
23 
2 
Cape Fox 
1 
13 
1 
Nakat Bay 
1 
22 
1 
British Columbia: 
Wales Island 
1 
56 
1 
Arrandale 
1 
33 
1 
Wark Channel ^ 
1 
24 
1 
Skeena River 
1 
45 
1 
89 
1 
65 
3 
Grenville Channel... 
1 
42 
1 
Leading Point (?) 
1 
52 
1 
Haystack (?) 
1 
30 
1 
Copper River (Skeena) 
1 
123 
1 
Doubtful 
1 
i 
2 
4 
Total 
26 
12 
17 
34 
57 
34 
42 
222 
Percentage 
10.4 
26.1 
14.5 
18.8 
20.6 
21.4 
21 
18.1 
> August. 
PINK SALMON 
The importance of local spawning runs of pink salmon is well illustrated by 
the results of the tagging at Ruins Point, as shown in Table 13. Out of a total of 
555 returns, 352 fish (63.4 per cent) were taken in Sumner Strait and adjacent 
waters. A great many of these, as shown in the table, were taken in the immediate 
vicinity of Ruins Point within a few days of the tagging. It was reported that the 
fish were taken chiefly in purse seines operating just below Ruins Point in Sumner 
Strait, and it seems probable that some, at least, were bound for the small streams 
along the western shore of Prince of Wales Island and the shores of the smaller 
islands of the Prince of Wales Archipelago. Thirty-four tagged pink salmon were 
actually reported from this region, and it seems probable that the number would 
