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Fish Egg Island near Craig and Sitka Sound, where the herring spawn annually, but 
most of the evidence shows that the herring do not spawn in exactly the same locality 
every year. (Fraser, 1916, p. 100.) 
The following list of places where herring have been reported to have spawned 
doubtless contains some inaccuracies both as to time and place, but it is given for 
what it is worth: 
San Diego Bay . — Obtained a sample with ripe spawn on December 13, 1928. 
San Francisco Bay . — Carl Hubbs (1925) mentions the breeding season commencing on 
December 21 and ending on April 17. Scofield (1918) gives January to April. 
Scofield (1918) mentions spawning in Tomales Bay from December to March, and also men- 
tions the following places: Morro Bay, Drakes Bay, Bodega Bay, Shelter Cove, and Humboldt 
Bay. 
Captain Freeman informed W. F. Thompson that he had seen herring spawn at the following 
places in British Columbia: Spider Island, March 20 to April 20; Scudder Point, April 14 to 
April 30; Burnaby Narrows, April 21 to May 8; Seaforth Channel (south side), last of March; 
Kitkatla Inlet, about middle of April; Rennell Sound, March 10; Kano Inlet, March 10; Port 
Neville; White Beach Passage; Quatsino Sound; Nanaimo; Reed Island; Smith’s Inlet, Takush; 
Browning Pass; Shedwell Pass, Bardswell group in narrow channel; Swindle Island; Price Island in 
narrow channel; Georgetown, between Prince Rupert and Port Simpson; Ikeda Bay (not every 
year); Jedway (Queen Charlotte Islands); Schooner Point; Cumshewa; Lyle Island in narrows; 
Skidegate; and Tartoo. 
Dr. C. M. Fraser (1916) mentions noting spawning at Nanoose Bay and Departure Bay in 
1913. In 1914 he carefully noted the following localities: Yellow Point, February 20; Breakwater 
Island, February 26; Gabriola Pass, February 26; north shore Pylades Channel, February 26; 
Pilot Bay to Berry Point on Gabriola Island, March 9 to 11; northeast coast of Gabriola Island 
from Berry Point to Flat Top Island, March 12 to 13; East side of Gabriola Island, to March 17; 
Big Qualicum, March 8; entrance Nanoose Bay, March 10; and Ganges Harbor, Saltspring Island 
March 20. 
Edward W. Nelson (1887) describes the spawning in the vicinity of St. Michaels, Alaska, in 
June. 
The writer has had the following list of spawning places reported by various 
persons : 
In southeastern Alaska. — Loring, last of April and first part of May; Port Stewart, last of 
April and first part of May; Vixen Inlet (Ernest Sound), one week later; Spacious Bay; Morgan’s 
Cove, Trunk Island, Cape Caamano; Union Bay; Meyer’s Chuck; Fish Egg Island (Craig), March 
27 to April 1 in 1914, March 10 to March 20 in 1915; In Bay on Clam Island, same time; Sugar Point 
(near Craig), same time; Tonowek Narrows; Big Harbor; Sierra Sound; Rose Inlet; Warmcliuck on 
Heceta Island (occasionally a few); Eleven Mile (near Craig); Tuxekan Pass; Shakan Pass; Horn- 
brooke Island; Sitka, Silver Bay to Whitestone Narrows, March 20 to April 15; Biorka Island; 
Killisnoo Lagoon (Angoon), April 1 to end of April; Calico Bay (Kootznahoo Inlet); Hood Bay, 
May 1 to May 25; Stretchers Cove; Redfish Bay, a little later than Sitka; Port Alexander, May 18; 
Pybus Bay, May; Seymour Canal at Pleasant Harbor, Mole Harbor and head of the bay, mid 
April to mid May; Duncan Canal; Port Houghton; Hamilton Bay; Rocky Pass Inlet; Kake; Port 
Frederick; Idaho Inlet; Mud Bay; Flynn Cove; Tee Harbor, first part of May; Stephens Passage 
from Point Stephens to about lj4 miles south of Point Lena; Point Louisa; Auke Bay; Coghlan 
Island; and north end of Douglas Island. 
In Prince William Sound. — Ellamar, April; Kniklik, April to middle of May; inside of Fairmont 
Island, April to middle of May; Knight Island (upper end); Sawmill Bay (few); and both shores of 
Main Bay between Port Nellie Juan and Crafton Island. 
In Cook Inlet . — Port Graham, middle of May; Seldovia Bay; McDonald Spit, first half of May; 
Tutka Bay, same; Homer Spit, last of April, first of May; Halibut Cove, first of May; Mallard Bay, 
same; Aurora, same; and Bear Cove, same. 
In the Kodiak- Afognak district. — Shangan’s Bay, Shuyak Island; Uganik Bay, first part of June; 
Zachar Bay, June; Shearwater Bay, last of May; and Three Saints’ Bay, last of May, first of June. 
In the Bering Sea. — Unalaska. 
