SALMON TAGGING IN ALASKA, 1924-1925 
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and two in Wales Bay, British Columbia. The extremely local distribution of the 
fish is very apparent. 
It is interesting to note that most of the fish taken in other localities than those 
along the western side of Prince of Wales Island were of the first three experiments. 
Returns from the later experiments came almost exclusively from the west coast. 
However, the last two experiments were not nearly as successful as the earlier ones, 
in so far as the percentage of return is concerned. In the first four experiments a 
very uniform recovery was reported — approximately 30 per cent. Then, after a 
lapse of only two days, the recaptures dropped to less than 8 per cent, and on the 
next day to less than 5 per cent. This was undoubtedly the result of the closing of 
this area to commercial fishing (except by trolling) on August 22. 
RETURNS FROM EXPERIMENTS AT CAPE CHACON 
RED SALMON 
Thirty-seven red salmon out of 121 tagged were recaptured, and all but four 
of the returns were from the southern part of Clarence Strait, a comparatively short 
distance from the point of tagging. Three of the fish were taken along the western 
coast of Prince of Wales Island between Kassa Inlet and Hydaberg, and one was re- 
captured in the Babine River, a tributary of the Skeena River in British Columbia. 
No definite conclusions can be drawn from these few data, although it appears that 
some of the fish are of local origin and others come from the large rivers in the northern 
part of British Columbia. The data relative to the returns of red salmon tagged at 
Cape Chacon are given in Table 16. 
Table 16 .- — Returns of red salmon tagged at Cape Chacon and Stone Rock Bay in 1925 
Locality of recapture 
Clarence Strait, south of Tolstoi Point: 
Cape Chacon . 
Stone Rock Bay.. 
Mallard Bay 
Chichagof Bay 
Bostwick Inlet... 
Moira Sound 
Kassan Bay 
Dali Head 
West coast Prince of Wales Island: 
Kassa Inlet 
Nutkwa Inlet 
Hydaberg 
Babine River, British Columbia 
Total 
Percentage. 
Locality and date of tagging 
Cape Chacon, 
Aug. 8 
Num- 
ber 
9 
26.4 
Time 
1-12 
10 
Stone Rock 
Bay, Aug. 9 
Num- 
ber 
20 
29. 4 
Time 
i 6-11 
4-7 
6 
2 
7 
3-8 
11 
3 
Cape Chacon, 
Aug. 11 
Num- 
ber 
Time 
Stone Rock 
Bay, Aug. 12 
Num- 
ber 
5 
55.5 
Time 
3-8 
..... 
Cape Chacon, 
Aug. 13 
Num- 
ber 
Time 
2 
33.3 
Total 
num- 
ber 
re- 
turned 
12 
4 
2 
4 
1 
5 
2 
3 
1 
1 
1 
1 
37 
30.6 
1 One with date of capture not given. 
COHOES 
Nine cohoes were returned of the 48 tagged at this locality. Seven were taken 
locally not far from Cape Chacon and 1 each in the Nass and Skeena Rivers. 
Although too few to be conclusive, the data point to the Nass and Skeena Rivers 
as the sources of an important part of the run of cohoes in this part of southeastern 
Alaska. The results of the experiment are given in Table 17. 
