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Table 3. — Returns from pink salmon tagged near Kasaan Bay — Continued 
Out of the total of 316 recaptured, 293, or approximately 93 per cent, were taken 
either in Kasaan Bay or in Clarence Strait. Twenty were taken in Behm Canal and 
1 each in Cordova Bay, on the west shore of Prince of Wales Island, and at Point 
Lull, Chatham Strait. One hundred and twenty-six, or 40 per cent came from Kasaan 
Bay proper or from fishing operations conducted at the entrance to the bay, and 167 
from localities in Clarence Strait both north and south of Kasaan Bay. There 
appears to be a fairly well-marked difference in the distribution, depending on whether 
the fish were tagged north or south of the entrance to the bay. Those tagged south 
of the entrance were taken in greater numbers in the southern part of Clarence Strait, 
chiefly at localities South of the point of tagging, while those tagged north of the 
entrance were taken in greater numbers north of the point of tagging. The exact 
significance of this is not clear, but it seems probable that the difference is due mainly 
to a general dispersion from the locality where the fish were liberated. It is possible, 
however, that these results indicate that there is less certainty to the movements of 
the fish taken south of Kasaan Bay than to those taken north of the bay which are, 
presumably, nearer the streams to which they are bound. It is also possible, although 
rather improbable, that the fish taken south of the bay have entered the strait from 
the north, through Sumner Strait, and are traveling generally toward the south while 
those taken north of the bay have entered Clarence Strait from the south and are 
generally traveling northward. Approximately equal proportions crossed Clarence 
