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BULLETIN OF THE BUREAU OF FISHERIES 
Bay in 1912; Canoe Point in 1913; Deer Bay in 1917; Garden Point in 1917, 1918, and 
1920; Grindall Point in 1919; Salmon Bay in 1923; Salmon Beach in 1924; Salt Chuck 
in 1925; Calamity Point in 1926; and Middle Pass, Salmon Creek, and Pile Trap Cove 
in 1927. A catch reported from Earl Cove in 1927 was added to the Inian Islands 
total for that year, and catches from North Passage in 1924 and 1927 were included 
with those reported from North Inian Passage in the respective years. 
Traps were used in this field at points on the shores along which passed the schools 
of salmon destined to more easterly waters. Prominent points or capes at breaks in 
the shore line were preferred as trap locations if the tidal currents were favorable. 
Good catches were commonly made at such places by traps. Purse seines were also 
fairly effective at some points. 
The available data show that fishing began in Cross Sound in 1911 with a fair 
catch of coho, pink, and red salmon and that catches were made each season except 
1922, through 1927. In the earlier years of this period the catch of reds held a mod- 
erately even level; but after 1916 striking irregularities were observed, probably due 
to more exactness in the allocation of catches rather than to irregularities of the runs. 
Fluctuations in the catch of all species were extremely irregular in this latter period 
and apparently bear no relation to the size of the runs in any year as indicated by the 
catches in other and nearby districts. This is exactly what might be expected in a 
locality of this land where the catches are taken from migrating fish whose route of 
travel may possibly change slightly from year to year under the influence of various 
environmental conditions. 
In 1927, a trap, located on the shore of Three Hill Island in Cross Sound, made a 
catch of 96,271 salmon. Other traps placed along the shores of Inian Islands in that 
and earlier years evidently have tapped the main runs of salmon to Icy Strait and 
beyond as the islands have no local runs worth mentioning. It might appear from 
the catches reported as coming from Inian Cove that runs of considerable magnitude 
originated in that locality, but such is very certainly not a fact. These catches were 
made by traps, at the entrance of the cove, from passing schools of salmon. Salmon 
coming into Cross Sound from the ocean use the several Inian passages in their east- 
ward movement but the main body of fish probably follows the north passage. After 
passing the Inian Islands, the runs swing to the southward and strike the north shore 
of Chichagof Island from Gull Cove to Point Adolphus. 
Catches of salmon in the Inian Islands section have been uniformly good and in 
some years exceptionally large catches were made, particularly of pinks. At this 
point the runs are composed of salmon bound for many localities to the eastward, and 
the volume of the runs has been reduced, up to this point, only by the deflection of 
fish into Taylor Bay on the north and Port Althorp on the south. After passing this 
group of islands the fish bound for Dundas Bay and Idaho Inlet leave the main stream 
of migration and this further reduces the runs. 
Dundas Bay is an irregularly shaped indentation of the mainland north of the 
Inian Islands. On the eastern side of the bay at the mouth of Dundas River is one 
of the oldest red-salmon fisheries in the Icy Strait district. No doubt its exploitation 
began with the establishment of the cannery at Bartlett Cove, but data are not 
available showing the catch, if any, before 1904. Beginning with that year, this bay 
has been a steady producer of salmon for 24 years, all species being taken from its 
waters. Its importance, however, lies particularly in the red-salmon catches and in 
the fairly constant production of pinks and chums since 1916. Traps were located 
between the mouth of the river and Dundas Point on the eastern side of the entrance 
