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was little difference in the total number of salmon caught. That marked the end 
of fishing until 1923, when the total catch was 2,784 pinks and chums. In 1924, 
however, the catch jumped to 228,777 pinks, 26,470 chums, and a few reds and 
cohos. The catch fell off again in 1925, increased again in 1926, and went still higher 
in 1927, yet did not even then equal the total of 1924, though the number of chums 
and cohos was larger than in any other year. Special mention should be made of 
the unusual catch of cohos in 1927, when 41,722 were reported by a single company. 
This catch was larger by several thousand than that of any other locality of the 
sound in any year and is wholly at variance with all earlier records, as the entire 
catch of cohos in Anderson Bay from 1917 to 1926, inclusive, was only 17. If this 
catch was correctly reported, it was made by a trap on the north shore of Hinchin- 
brook Island outside of Anderson Bay and came from the runs of cohos to the 
streams of the mainland on the north side of Orca Bay, or to Copper River. It 
is probable that this trap was operated later in the year than others in the same 
locality. Reds and kings have not been taken in appreciable numbers. 
Bear Trap Bay . — This bay is a small indentation on the eastern shore near the 
head of Port Gravina. Data for six years show that the first catch was made here 
in 1915 and consisted of 13,725 pink salmon. In 1917 the bay was again fished 
and produced 22,439 salmon, of which 20,000 were pinks. It was then abandoned 
until 1923, but the catch in that year was barely 2,000 pinks and chums. No catch 
was reported in 1924. From 1925 to 1927, fishing was carried on each year with 
wide fluctuations in catch. The stream near the entrance of the bay is blocked 600 
feet above its mouth by a high falls; and the streams at the head of the bay are short 
and extremely precipitous, providing only a small area for spawning. In the nature 
of things, Bear Trap Bay is not likely ever to be a large producer of salmon. 
Canoe Passage . — Canoe Passage is a narrow, shallow waterway dividing Hawkins 
Island into two almost equal parts. Salmon in small numbers may use streams 
tributary to the passage, but in all probability the greater part of the catch from 
this locality was taken at the Orca entrance from runs passing along the coast to 
streams of the mainland. Pinks and chums and a few reds were caught here, the 
largest catch being 120,863 in 1926, almost five times as many as were captured in 
any other year. The passage gives no promise of developing a larger fishery than 
now exists. 
Double Bay . — This name is frequently applied to two bays which indent the 
north shore of Hinchinbrook Island, but in this review it designates the eastern- 
most bay between Hawkins Cut-off and Johnstone Point, the western one being 
Anderson Bay. Data are few and represent small catches for three years only, 
1925 to 1927. Pinks and chums were taken, the best year being 1926. 
Gravina Point . — Gravina Point is the end of the peninsula between Port Gravina 
and Orca Bay. Except in 1921 and 1923, catches were reported from this locality from 
1918 through 1926. The largest catch of pink salmon at any locality in Prince William 
Sound, except Unakwik Inlet, was made at Gravina Point in 1924, nearly 900,000 
being taken. Before that year catches were comparatively small and were composed 
