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salmon, but in all the years of its productivity, the percentage of reds in the total 
catch has ranged from 63 to 100. It is a seine fishery, exploited almost entirely by 
Indians who have fished with little or no supervision or legal restraint as officers on 
patrol duty visited the bay infrequently; yet it still produces red salmon in numbers 
comparable to the catches obtained in the early years of its exploitation, and under 
far more effective and better enforced laws and regulations than ever before imposed. 
Lisianski Inlet and Lisianski Strait form the northwest coast of Chicagof Island 
and separate it from Yakobi Island. Stag Bay is an arm of Lisianski Strait. Accord- 
ing to available data, fishing began in the strait in 1905 and was continued each 
year through 1920. Apparently no fishing was conducted here in 1921 and 1922, 
and although it was resumed in 1923, no catches have been reported therefrom 
since 1924. Fair catches of pink salmon were made regularly in this locality; and 
in a few years, during the period of intensive fishing on account of the World War, 
unusually good catches of cohos, chums, and reds were also made. The catches of 
these three species, however, were insignificant in the first 10 years of fishing and 
have been unimportant since 1920. Catches of pinks, chums, and reds in Lisianski 
Inlet, which includes a small catch at Miner Island in 1927, show less violent fluctu- 
ations than do those in the strait. Coho catches were more variable, and kings 
were taken quite irregularly. The presence of the latter species in both Lisianski 
Strait and Inlet is presumably an indication that these waters are traversed by 
salmon entering Cross Sound, as it is not likely that the small streams tributary to 
the strait and inlet support runs of even a few hundred kings. In the same way it 
is possible to account for the better catches of other species, especially reds, in some 
years, as bearing a relation to the number of salmon using this passage as a migration 
route. Had there been any stream in Lisianski Inlet which would produce as many 
as 19,000 red salmon in a season (which was the approximate catch there in 1916), 
that fact would certainly have been discovered a decade earlier and development 
of the locality would have been contemporaneous with that of Surge Bay and other 
streams in the same region. It is quite probable that traps were used here and 
intercepted the runs of migrating salmon although there are no definite records to 
this effect. Salmon were taken from Stag Bay in each season from 1923 to 1927, 
and all species were included in the catch, with pinks predominating. 
Soapstone Harbor is a small indentation on the north end of Yakobi Island. It 
was fished occasionally from 1908 to 1919, and regularly from 1924 to 1927. All 
species of salmon, except kings, have been taken there but the catch was invariably 
small, and possibly included fish from the main runs into Cross Sound. 
There are 21 localities in the Cross Sound section of the Icy Strait district which 
are treated independently in table 2. They include 17 other localities in which small 
catches were made, or which had been fished but one season. These places will be 
referred to in the discussion of data for the localities with which they were merged. 
Cape Spencer, on the north side of the entrance to Cross Sound, is shown as a 
separate locality because several thousand red salmon were reported as captured at 
that point in the 4 years from 1915 to 1919, excluding 1916 in which no catch was 
reported. The catch in 1920 was small and again in 1921 no catch was reported. 
In 1922, fishing was resumed and continued through 1927 but with much smaller 
returns. The catch of other species shows the same peculiarity as was noted in 
respect to reds, the earlier years being more productive than the later years. One 
of the outstanding irregularities in the Cape Spencer data, if indeed all of the data 
are not irregular, is the catch of 1,569 king salmon in 1919, reported by the North- 
