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BULLETIN OP THE BUREAU OF FISHERIES 
Table 8 gives a graphic picture of the catch of cohos, chums, pinks, and reds in 
the Port Gravina. and Orca Bay district. Kings are not shown as the catches were 
comparatively insignificant. The peaks in production of pinks in 1916 and 1918 are 
directly traceable to the opening of several new canneries at that time. The low 
levels of the next few years, 1919 to 1923, were caused chiefly by the lighter runs 
of salmon in 1919 and the overproduction in 1920, resulting in a large surplus of 
canned salmon and a collapse of the market for pinks. By 1923 operations were again 
normal. Vastly higher peaks of production than ever before attained were reached 
in 1924 and 1926, while in 1925 and 1927, regarded as off years, the catch was far 
above the peaks of 1916 and 1918. The coho and chum fisheries also show larger 
returns in late years and an upward trend of the catch since 1921. In general, this 
is true of the red-salmon fishery, the largest catch in the history of the district being 
made in 1926. 
HINCHINBROOK ENTRANCE DISTRICT 
This district covers the waters of the western coast of Hinchinbrook Island 
from 1 mile north of Shelter Bay to Cape Hinchinbrook and the eastern coast of 
Montague Island from Montague Point to Cape Cleare. It embraces five localities 
which are treated separately in the statistical table, but as all of them except Port 
Etches were fished very irregularly before 1925 the data are too few for analysis. 
Catch records at Port Etches, which includes Constantine Harbor, are available for 
10 years, though somewhat disconnected, and include catches reported from Chiefs 
Bay in 1913, from Constantine Harbor in 1927, from English Bay in 1918, from 
Garden Cove in 1923, from Nuchek (sometimes called Nutchek) in 1914 and 1917. 
The record for Zaikof Bay includes a catch reported in 1917 from “Kaikoff ” Bay 
which was probably intended for Zaikof Bay. The unallocated catches in this dis- 
trict include salmon reported from Bear Cape in 1918 and 1927, from Seven Sisters 
in 1927, and from Wahnya Bay in 1917. 
The first catch recorded at Port Etches was in 1913 and consisted entirely of 
pink salmon; in 1914, only a few hundred cohos were taken. Nothing more was 
done until 1917 in which year fishing was resumed and carried on for four years 
without interruption. The next catch was recorded in 1923, but there is no record 
of a catch in 1924. From 1925 to 1927 the record appears to be complete and shows 
a marked increase in the catch of all species, 1927 being an exceptionally good year 
for pinks in spite of the fact that closed areas for a mile or more were established 
off the mouth of the main tributary stream of Constantine Harbor and the one at 
the head of Port Etches. 
The other localities which form this district are: Anchor Bay, a small indenta- 
tion on the west coast of Hinchinbrook Island about 3 miles north of Bear Cape; 
Kocky Bay and Zaikof Bay on the north end of Montague Island; and Shelter Bay 
on the west coast of Hinchinbrook Island. Zaikof Bay is the most important of 
these localities and produced a catch of nearly 150,000 pink salmon in 1926. 
