STATISTICAL REVIEW OF THE ALASKA SALMON FISHERIES 
PART III: PRINCE WILLIAM SOUND, COPPER RIVER 
AND BERING RIVER 1 
By Willis H. Rich, Ph. D., Professor of Zoology, Stanford University, and Edward M. Ball 
Assistant, Alaska Service 
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CONTENTS 
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Introduction 187 
Prince William Sound 187 
Western part 204 
Knight Island Passage district. . 204 
Montague Strait district 211 
Port Wells district 214 
Eaglek Bay district 217 
Unakwik Inlet district 218 
Glacier Island district 220 
Total, western part 221 
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Prince William Sound — Continued. 
Eastern part 222 
Valdez Arm district 222 
Port Fidalgo district 225 
Port Gravina and Orca Bay 
district 227 
Hinchinbrook Entrance district. 232 
Total, eastern part 233 
Total, Prince William Sound 234 
Copper River 238 
Bering River 245 
INTRODUCTION 
This paper continues the series of reports dealing with the statistics of the salmon 
fisheries of Alaska. For the sake of uniformity with Parts I and II 2 the policy has 
been continued of treating only the data up to and including 1927 in spite of the fact 
that data for three more years are now available. After the data for the remainder 
of Alaska have been presented in this manner it is planned to supplement these records 
from time to time with those which have accumulated in the interval and thus to pro- 
vide statistics as complete as possible for the salmon fisheries of Alaska. 
The character of the data and the methods of treatment have been fully described 
and discussed in the earlier numbers of the series and need not be repeated here. 
PRINCE WILLIAM SOUND 
Prince William Sound is the largest indentation on the southern coast of Alaska 
between Cook Inlet and Cross Sound. As here considered, it includes all waters 
from Cape Fairfield on the west to Point Whitshed on the east. This area is shown 
1 Approved for publication, June 18, 1931. 
a Statistical Review of the Alaska Salmon Fisheries. Part I: Bristol Bay and the Alaska Peninsula. By Willis H. Rich and 
Edward M. Ball. Bulletin, U. S. Bureau of Fisheries, Vol. XLIV, 1928 (1929) . Bureau of Fisheries Document No. 1041, pp. 41-95, 
20 figs. Washington. 
Ibid .— Part II: Chignik to Resurrection Bay. Bulletin, U. S. Bureau of Fisheries, Vol. XLVI, 1930 (1931) . Bureau of Fisheries 
Document No. 1102, pp. 643-712, 11 figs. Washington. . 
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