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BULLETIN OF THE BUREAU OF FISHERIES 
which give promise of continued exploitation have appeared in the records their 
identity has been preserved. 
According to available information, the canning of salmon began in this district 
in 1889 at Bartlett Cove on the eastern side of Glacier Bay near the Beardslee group 
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of islands. A saltery had pre- 
viously been operated there 
but no record of the date of 
the establishment of the 
saltery or of the pack it made 
can now be found. However, 
the catch probably consisted 
of a few thousand red salmon 
taken in the cove directly at 
the mouth of the creek or 
actually in the stream. The 
cannery did not operate after 
1891, and from that year to 
1899, inclusive, the fisheries 
of the Icy Strait district seem 
not to have been exploited. 
In 1900, exploitation of 
these fisheries was resumed 
and in a few years expanded 
rapidly so that practically 
every stream in the district 
was known and fished. The 
number of canneriesincreased 
rapidly, and the character 
of the fishery changed from 
one conducted primarily by 
means of beach seines and 
gill nets to one in which there 
was a preponderant use of 
traps and purse seines. By 
1915, the shores of Icy Strait 
especially were lined with 
traps which had then become 
the most effective appliances 
in use. Beach seining was 
not entirely discontinued, 
but it was chiefly in the hands 
of natives whose operations were carried on in the bays near the mouths of streams. 
Later, with the increase in competition for salmon, larger nets and boats were used 
and beach seines were largely supplanted by purse seines. The preferred and most 
successful method of fishing, however, was permanently centered in the operation of 
traps. Salmon coming in from the ocean through Cross Sound pass close to the 
conspicuous points of land on both the mainland shores and the islands and these 
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