SALMON-TAGGING EXPERIMENTS 
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Table 12 . — Returns from pink salmon tagged at Point Colpoys, 1927 
Locality (Point Colpoys) 
and date of tagging 
Total 
Locality of recapture 
July 26 
July 30 
num- 
ber 
recap- 
tured 
Locality of recapture 
July 26 
July 30 
num- 
ber 
recap- 
tured 
Num- 
ber 
Days 
Num- 
ber 
Days 
Num- 
ber 
Days 
Num- 
ber 
Days 
Sumner Strait: 
Clarence Strait, South of 
Point Colpoys 
3 
6-13 
5 
2-6 
8 
Ernest Sound— Continued. 
1 
3 
i 
Wolf Creek ... . ... 
2 
5 
1 
7 
3 
Point St. John ... 
1 
1 
1 
2 miles north of Ship 
1 
5 
1 
Island . ... 
1 
10 
1 
1 
3 
1 
Tolstoi Bay 
1 
4 
1 
Ship Island _ 
5 
4-10 
5 
1 
4 
1 
False Island 
2 
7-9 
4 
6-10 
6 
Clarence Strait: 
Caamano Point.. 
3 
8 
4 
4-8 
7 
2 
4-6 
2 
Behm Canal: 
1 
15 
2 
6-11 
3 
Bctton Island 
1 
15 
1 
11 
2 
4 
3-6 
2 
8-9 
6 
Point Higgins 
1 
7 
1 
Helm Bay 
1 
6 
1 
3 
10-17 
3 
Traitors Cove 
2 
7-12 
2 
1 
3 
1 
Clarence Strait south of Behm 
Screen Islands.,. 
4 
3-9 
1 
4 
5 
Canal: 
2 
3 
i 
7 
3 
Island Point 
1 
14 
1 
1 
2 
1 
Skin Island 
1 
10 
1 
2 
7-9 
2 
Grant Cove 
1 
12 
1 
Whale Passage ... ... ... 
3 
2-3 
2 
3 
5 
Nelson Cove . 
1 
12 
1 
Coffman Island 
2 
3-5 
2 
Gravina Island. 
1 
17 
3 
4-7 
4 
Eagle Creek 
2 
3-14 
2 
Dali Head ._ 
3 
8 
3 
1 
4 
1 
1 
5 
1 
1 
3 
1 
Point Davison 
1 
6 
1 
Ratz Point 
4 
4-18 
4 
Hotspur Island ... _. 
1 
4 
1 
Gull Point. 
1 
7 
1 
Vegas Islands 
2 
16 
1 
12 
3 
3 
7-12 
1 
3 
4 
Sealed Passage 
2 
8 
2 
2 
5 
1 
5 
3 
Duke Island _. . 
1 
6 
1 
Ernest Sound: 
Cape Chacon . _ 
2 
12 
9 
Union Bay.. 
1 
14 
4 
5 
5 
Nichols Passage: Bostwick In- 
Union Point ._ 
6 
8 
3-10 
14 
let 
3 
10-16 
3 
Vixen Inlet 
1 
7 
1 
3 
2 
Revillagigedo Channel: 
Eaton Point 
7 
5-12 
7 
3-19 
14 
Crab Bay.. 
1 
13 
1 
Watkins Point 
4 
5-10 
6 
4-14 
10 
Point Sykes 
1 
10 
1 
West side of Deer Island.. 
i 
8 
1 
Breakwater, south. _ _ _ _ 
1 
10 
1 
Seward Passage 
0 
7-12 
6 
3-8 
12 
Ivah Shakes Point 
1 
4 
1 
South end of Wrangell 
Foggy Bay ... ..... 
1 
6 
1 
Island 
14 
5-8 
6 
5-10 
20 
2 
12 
1 
5 
3 
Point Warde 
1 
8 
3 
4-7 
4 
Cape Fox. 
1 
9 
1 
Anan Creek 
4 
4-15 
1 
6 
British Columbia: 
Clarence Strait, south of 
Nass River _ ... ... 
1 
8 
1 
Ernest Sound: 
Wright Sound 
1 
43 
1 
1 
r 
1 
Meyers Chuck __ 
6 
2-11 
6 
Total 
108 
123 
231 
Misery Island... . . .. . 
5 
4 
5 
39. 8 
40. 5 
40. 2 
Three Islands _ 
2 
4-7 
3 
3-13 
5 
Locality (Point Colpoys) 
and date of tagging 
Total 
COHO SALMON 
Twenty-eight coho salmon were tagged at Point Colpoys, Sumner Strait, during 
1927, six of which were recaptured (21.4 per cent). One was taken at Point Colpoys 
after 18 days, and the others were taken in various localities in Clarence Strait after 
8 to 17 days. 
RETURNS FROM EXPERIMENTS AT CAPE DECISION, SUMNER STRAIT 
Two hundred and ninety-nine salmon were tagged at Cape Decision, Sumner 
Strait, on July 30. Of this number 29 were reds, 164 pinks, 82 chums, and 24 cohos. 
RED SALMON 
Of the 29 reds tagged at Cape Decision on July 30 only 4 were recaptured. 
One was taken in each of the following localities: Barrier Islands, Sumner Strait, 
12 days; Tebenkof Bay, Chatham Strait, 11 days. Two were taken in or near the 
Skeena and Nass Rivers and Lowe Inlet, British Columbia, during July and August, 
but no definite dates or locations were recorded. 
