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BULLETIN OF THE BUREAU OF FISHERIES 
Table 11. — Returns from red salmon tagged at Point Colpoys, 1927 
Locality of recapture 
Locality (Point Colpoys) 
and date of tagging 
Total 
num- 
ber 
recap- 
tured 
Locality of recapture 
Locality (Point Colpoys) 
and date of tagging 
Tota 
num- 
ber 
recap- 
tured 
July 26 
July 30 
July 26 
July 30 
Num- 
ber 
Days 
Num- 
ber 
Days 
Num- 
ber 
Days 
Num- 
ber 
Days 
Sumner Strait: 
Clarence Strait, South of 
Point Colpoys 
9 
6-25 
3 
4 
12 
Ernest Sound — Continued. 
Red Bay 
5 
3 
5 
Wolf Creek 
1 
5 
1 
Point Baker. 
1 
6 
1 
Ship Island 
2 
8-10 
2 
6 
4 
Stikine Flats.. 
1 
(') 
1 
Ship Harbor 
1 
10 
1 
Frederick Sound: Boulder 
False Island 
1 
5 
1 
Point . . .. 
1 
10 
1 
Caamano Point 
2 
4-10 
2 
C arence Strait, north of Ernest 
Grindall Point 
1 
10 
1 
Sound: 
Clover Passage 
1 
8 
1 
Snow Passage 
1 
15 
1 
Guard Islands 
1 
14 
1 
Point Nesbitt 
5 
3-6 
2 
7-14 
7 
Gravina Island 
1 
11 
1 
10 
2 
West entrance, Stikine 
Dali Head 
1 
6 
1 
Strait 
1 
4 
1 
Cedar Point 
1 
5 
1 
Etolin Island 
1 
1 
Driest Point .. 
1 
13 
1 
Point Harrington .. 
1 
3 
1 
Point Davison 
2 
4-12 
1 
6 
3 
Marsh Island 
1 
2 
1 
Hotspur Island 
2 
8-13 
2 
1 
3 
1 
Point Percy 
3 
4-7 
3 
Coffman Island 
3 
3-5 
3 
Sealed Passage... . . . 
1 
8 
1 
6 
2 
Whale Passage 
3 
2 
3 
3 
6 
Ingraham Bay 
1 
10 
1 
2 
3-4 
2 
South Kendrick Bay 
1 
4 
1 
Eagle Creek 
3 
4-14 
i 
20 
4 
Cape Chacon . . . 
i 
12 
1 
Ratz Point ... 
2 
3-12 
3 
4 
5 
Cordova Bay: Point Marsh. _ 
1 
23 
1 
Narrow Point 
1 
5 
5 
4-8 
6 
Behm Canal: Yes Bav 
1 
55 
1 
Ernest Sound: 
Revillagigedo Channel: 
1 
5 
1 
15 
2 
Kirk Point... __ 
i 
14 
1 
1 
8 
1 
Boat Harbor 
2 
5-10 
2 
Watkins Point 
1 
5 
i 
Kanagunut Island 
i 
3 
i 
Seward Passage. 
1 
8 
1 
British Columbia: 
Portland Inlet 
1 
9 
1 
1 
8 
1 
Mouth of Skeena River. . 
i 
8 
i 
2 
2 
1 
4 
1 
Kitchen Island 
i 
6 
Smith Island 
i 
6 
i 
Skeena or Nass Rivers 2 
7 
(?) 
7 
1 
1 1 
1 
Meyers Chuck... 
1 
3 
1 
Total 
60 
58 
118 
2 
4 
2 
Percentage returned 
30.3 
31.3 
30.8 
1 Reported captured before date of tagging. 
2 7 tags recovered near Skeena River, Nass River, and Lowe Inlet, British Columbia, July and August. 
PINK SALMON 
Five hundred and seventy-seven pink salmon were tagged at Point Colpoys, 
Sumner Strait, during 1927, 232 of which were recaptured (40.2 per cent). The 
data presented in Table 12 show the same general distribution of pink salmon from 
Sumner Strait as was shown by the previous experiments. It is interesting to note, 
however, that none of the fish tagged in 1927 were recaptured on the west coast of 
Prince of Wales Island. This agrees with the experiments of 1926, but both differ 
in this respect from the experiments of 1924 and 1925, which were made at Ruins 
Point. It is evident that the fish that enter the strait as far as Point Colpoys are 
pursuing a definite migration, while those as far out as Ruins Point may or may not 
be definitely entering Sumner Strait. 
