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they came from a local run and were caught well within the bay. This possibility is 
suggested by the fact that a lake-fed stream enters at the head of the bay which might 
support a small run of red salmon. However, if the catches were made off the en- 
trance of the bay, the presumption is that the Eshamy run provides the fish reported 
from Granite Bay. On account of the fact that the fishery here has developed almost 
entirely since the stringent regulations affected the fishery at Eshamy, the latter 
hypothesis seems the more probable. 
The catch of pinks has fluctuated considerably in the four years, disclosing two 
surprising and contradictory phenomena. The records for 1925, an odd year in 
which the run elsewhere in Prince, William Sound was small, show that the catch was 
82,581, the largest ever made at Granite Bay. In 1926, the year of the largest run 
of pink salmon ever known in Prince William Sound, this locality produced only 6,213 
pinks, a direct reversal of anticipated results. While nearly all other localities were 
showing much larger production in 1926, Granite Bay fell off more than 92 per cent 
in yield of pinks, 87 per cent in chums, and 57 per cent in cohos, but gained 102 per 
cent in production of reds. This indicates a peculiar condition of the fishery which 
data at hand do not explain. 
Jackpot Bay . — In the early days of salmon fishing in Prince William Sound, 
Jackpot Bay was rated by Moser (1899, p. 138) as good for 7,000 red salmon annually. 
It was probably fished as early as Eshamy Lagoon, but the first recorded catch was 
made in 1911, consisting of 5,885red salmon. In 1914, the catch had declined to 1,977. 
The bay was then abandoned and not fished again until 1917 in which year 21,770 
reds were caught. Another decline started in 1918 and terminated in 1920 with a 
catch of 80 reds, 6,967 pinks and 67 chums. Since then Jackpot Bay has not been 
fished. In 1925, it was permanently closed by departmental regulation for a distance 
of 2,000 yards from the mouth of the stream at the head of the bay. The closed area 
was extended to 3,000 yards in 1927. 
Latouche Passage . — The available records show that this locality was fished only 
in 1919, 1925, and 1927. Catches were uniformly small for all species except in 
1927 when 105,643 pinks were reported. This extraordinarily large catch is one of 
the exceptional occurrences for which no explanation can yet be given. If these 
figures are reliable they would indicate that the fishery in Latouche Passage may 
be developed into one of considerable importance, but the data are still too fragmen- 
tary to warrant any conclusions. 
Main Bay . — This locality has been fished for years by a single company, but 
operations were not continuous, indicating that the runs of salmon are of little 
importance. All species except kings were taken but the catch consisted mainly 
of pinks and reds. The catches of pinks apparently have been decreasing while 
those of reds have increased — a condition similar to that at Falls and Granite Bays. 
As gill netting was the preferred method of fishing, it seems likely that the red salmon 
taken in Main Bay were migrating to other waters, there being no evidence to indicate 
the existence of a local run. 
Point Nowell . — Catches of salmon were reported from this locality in three 
years. The first was made in 1917 and consisted chiefly of red salmon, the 
second in 1925 when only a few thousand salmon of four species were taken, and 
the third in 1927 when the number of pinks increased to 14,943 and that of reds, 
chums, and cohos dropped to a few hundred. This locality is not an important 
producer of salmon; the catches are small and are made by traps or set nets, yet it 
might seem that appliances set along the Point Nowell shore should intercept fish 
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