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Table 4. — 1927 samples — Continued 
Date 
Num- 
ber of 
sam- 
ples 
Num- 
ber in 
sam- 
ples 
Locality 
Apparatus 
Remarks 
Preserva- 
tion 
1927 
Aug. 3 
5 
1 
201 
Larch Bay (Chatham Strait) 
Purse seine 
Well preserved 
1 
97 
do _ 
Do. 
10 
1 
50 
Off McDonald Spit (Kachemak Bay) 
do _. 
18 
1 
8 
Belkofski Bay... I 
Salmon trap 
23 
1 
50 
Off McDonald Spit (Kachemak Bay) 
do 
24 
2 
50 
do 
do 
Do. 
25 
3 
75 
do .... 
do 
Do. 
27 
2 
50 
Off Yukon Island (Kachemak Bay). 
do 
Do. 
Do. 
Sept. 8 
21 
1 
25 
1 mile off between McDonald Spit and 
Barabara Point (Kachemak Bay). 
Off Yukon Island (Kachemak Bay) 
do 
1 
50 
do 
Do. 
29 
1 
75 
McClure Bay. 
do 
Do. 
30 
3 
100 
do 
do 
Do. 
Oct. 2 
1 
25 
do. 
do 
Do. 
3 
1 
25 
_ ..do ._ 
do.. 
Do. 
Dec. 17 
1 
52 
Halibut Cove Light (Kachemak Bay) 
Gill net, 3-inch 
Well preserved 
Formalin 
19 
1 
87 
mesh. 
do 
do 
Do. 
19 
1 
150 
Halibut Cove Lagoon (Kachemak Bay)... 
do 
do 
Do. 
Table 5 . — 1928 samples 1 
Date 
Num- 
ber of 
sam- 
ples 
tw. 
Num- 
ber in 
sam- 
ples 
Locality 
Remarks 2 
Preserva- 
tion 
1928 
Jan. 27 
1 
975 
% mile south of Eagle Harbor, Stephens Pas- 
Good condition 
Frozen . 
sage. 
Mar. 25 
1 
100 
West coast Fish Egg Island (near Craig) 
Good condition, taken while spawning 
Do. 
26 
2 
200 
do. 
Do. 
1 
45 
Elrington Passage 
Fair condition 
Fresh. 
24 
1 
177 
Poor condition 
26 
1 
80 
Macleod Harbor 
Good condition 
Fresh. 
27 
1 
150 
do 
Do. 
28 
1 
30 
do __ 
Do. 
29 
1 
90 
do 
Do. 
30 
1 
30 
do. 
Do. 
1 
30 
do. 
Do. 
2 
1 
137 
do__ 
Do. 
5 
1 
60 
do. 
Do. 
6 
1 
30 
do__ 
Do. 
7 
2 
80 
do. 
Do. 
8 
2 
60 
do. 
Do. 
9 
1 
30 
do 
Do. 
11 
1 
60 
Bluff Point, Kachemak Bay 
do.. 
Do. 
13 
1 
50 
Taken from boat in Shuyak Strait 
Do. 
30 
1 
90 
Good condition 
Do. 
1 
50 
do 
Do. 
20 
1 
40 
Impounded 10 days 
Do. 
21 
1 
45 
Good condition 
Do. 
27 
1 
60 
Impounded Aug. 21 
Frozen. 
n 
100 
. ..Ido 
Fresh. 
12 
1 
50 
Good condition 
12 
1 
50 
Impounded Aug. 15 
Do. 
13 
1 
90 
Good condition! 
Fresh. 
19 
1 
50 
do__ 
Frozen. 
24 
1 
50 
Well preserved 
Formalin. 
25 
1 
50 
do. 
Do. 
Oct 2 
1 
50 
do 
Do. 
5 
1 
50 
Do. 
7 
1 
50 
do. 
Do. 
1 
165 
Preservation good 
Salted. 
■ A sample 'of frozen fish from Sitka is on hand but not yet examined. 2 All samples caught with purse seine. 
OTHER SAMPLES 
In addition to the above data we were kindly given the length measurements 
of many samples of herring collected and measured to the quarter inch in total length 
by Clarence L. Anderson, a former technologist of the United States Bureau of Fish- 
eries, at Franklin Packing Co., Evans Bay. The 1924 samples contained 200 fish 
