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22, fig. 7). From 1910 to 1914 an intensive fishery for herring to dry-salt for the 
oriental trade was carried on during the fall and winter months in Yes Bay and 
vicinity. (Nos. 30 and 31, fig. 7.) During 
these years the pickled-herring industry 
was gradually abandoning the waters near 
Petersburg and spreading toward Chat- 
ham Strait, which since 1916 has been the 
center of all phases of the industry, except 
the minor fishery for halibut bait. The bait 
fishermen continued to fish in the inside 
waters (which were close to the cold-storage 
plants), although with decreasing success, 
a large proportion of the bait used in the 
last few years being taken near the spawn- 
ing grounds at Craig and in Sitka Sound. 
(Nos. 27 and 1, fig. 7.) 
Information on the areas exploited by 
the summer herring fishery of southeastern 
Alaska, from 1922 to 1928, is contained in 
accurate records kept by a plant at Red 
Bluff Bay (on Baranof Island, in area 6, 
fig. 8). In compiling these records the 
fishing grounds have been divided into 
areas of approximately equal size. (Fig. 
8.) Since the amount of gear used varied 
from year to year, only the percentage of 
the catch taken in each locality has been 
given. For 1927 and 1928 records are 
available for other plants and we have 
given the catches of two of these — from 
Big Port Walter in area 5W and from 
Killisnoo on Admiralty Island in area 
10 — so that the effect of the location of 
the plant on the areas fished might be ob- 
served. The table follows. 
FiGLitK 8.— Areas o£ southeastern Alaska by which the 
summer fishery has been analyzed in Table 1 
Table 1.— Per cent of catch taken in definite areas by certain plants in southeastern Alaska from 
1922 to 1928, inclusive 
Area fished 
Location of plants 
Ked Bluff Bay 
Designation 
1922 
1923 
1924 
1925 
1926 
1927 
1928 
1927 
1928 
1927 
1928 
14. 5 
4. 5 
10. 1 
0. 6 
2. 1 
1.9 
.3 
Cape Ommaney 
10.6 
29.3 
17.5 
6.2 
57.0 
80. 1 
55.9 
80.0 
72.7 
60.0 
11.0 
. 4 
1. 4 
1.8 
6. 2 
.3 
Patterson Bay._ 
29.5 
6.8 
2.6 
42.4 
8.4 
1.4 
.7 
16. 1 
.4 
Tebenkof Bay. _ _ _ 
15.6 
50.3 
21.0 
33.5 
31.8 
13.3 
9.6 
5.9 
.2 
2.5 
Security Bay _ 
19.6 
11.2 
38.4 
12.3 
.5 
1. 6 
.2 
3.8 
1. 2 
Point Gardner. . 
24.9 
.9 
20.6 
4.8 
. 2 
.4 
.2 
25. 0 
.8 
Pybus Bay __ 
.3 
1.0 
Sitka Sound. _ 
10. 6 
1. 1 
5. 4 
7. 9 
Tenakee Inlet. . 

1.5 
.7 
Icy Strait . 
3.3 
13. 8 
19. 2 
. 
52.6 
1 
Big Port Walter 
Killisnoo 
No. 
1 
2 
3 
4 
SW 
5E 
6 
7 
8 
9 
10 
11 
12 
13 
