SALMON-TAGGING EXPERIMENTS 5 
Previous experiments had shown that the red-salmon runs entering Icy Strait early 
in the season (the latter part of June) contained fish bound for the Chilkat and Chil- 
koot Rivers. Later in the season (July 24 to 29) the Chilkat and Chilkoot fish appear 
to be gone, but Taku River fish appear in appreciable numbers. The Icy Strait exper- 
iments of 1927 were designed to test the distribution of the run at an intermediate 
period. The results are similar to those obtained from the experiments of July 24 to 
29, 1926 (Rich and Suomela, p. 94), and indicate that the Chilkat and Chilkoot fish 
have passed through Icy Strait by the middle of July. There is, however, a relatively 
large migration south into Chatham Strait, and in this respect the experiments of 1927 
resemble those of the latter part of June, 1926. (Rich, p. 119.) 
PINK SALMON 
Seven hundred and sixty pink salmon wer6 tagged in Icy Strait during 1927, 
of which 287 were recaptured (37.7 per cent). The data are presented in Table 3. 
Table 3. — Returns from pink salmon tagged in Icy Strait, 1927 
Locality and date of tagging 
Locality of recapture 
Inian Islands 
Pleasant Island, 
Total 
number 
July 14 
July 10 
July 10 
recap- 
tured 
Number 
Days 
Number 
Days 
Number 
Days 
Cross Sound: 
1 
2 
i 
North of Inian Pass 
1 
5 
Inian Pass 
1 
6 
i 
Dundas Bay 
1 
5 
1 
Icy Strait: 
4 
2-11 
2 
4 
3 
4-20 
3 
9 
2 
2 
2 
3 5 
2 
1 
3 
1 
7 
1-5 
3 
- 2-9 
s 
2-4 
18 
9 
G 
2-30 
3 
4-7 
1 
7 
6 
3 
5 
5-12 
4-5 
12 
6 
4 
2 
3-5 
2 
4-0 
2 
4 
2-16 
4 
4 
6-11 
2 
4-5 
3 
9 
1 
9 
1 
1 
1 
6 
2 
21 
4 
1 
1 
10 
1 
6 
3 
4 
6 
4 
Lynn Canal: 
4 
6-13 
4 
1 
6 
3 
4 
1 
6 
i 
4 
2 
1 
10 
3-11 
13-22 
2-4 
1-10 
1-11 
1-11 
4-5 
4-7 
1 
4 
3 
11 
19 
Chatham Strait: 
1 
3 
3 
1 
13 
2 
3 
4 
5 
4-9 
3 
7 
2-17 
3 
3-9 
9 
3 
3-6 
3 
3-7 
11 
2 
2 
9 
4 
6 
1 
2 
4 
8 
15 
3 
2 
3 
1 
4 
11 
4 
4-7 
5 
1 
9 
3 
1 
8 
1 
4 
4 
1 
1 
12 
1 
12 
26 
7-9 
4-15 
1 
28 
1 
26 
2 
4 
7-10 
4 
2 
7 
4 
4-22 
9 
1 
8 
1 
15 
1 
1 
6 
1 
4 
2 
4-6 
1 
1 
2 
8-9 
2 
7-15 
4-8 
2 
6-9 
3 
4-7 
6 
4 
5-7 
3 
11-13 
1 
12 
1 
2 
Rocky Bay 
3 
6-25 
Kingsmill Point - 
2 
6-10 
2 
6-20 
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