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BULLETIN OF THE BUREAU OF FISHERIES 
The situation at James Bay closely parallels the condition at Bartlett Cove, the 
catch falling off markedly after 1918. Catches at Berg Bay were also insignificant. 
In view of the evident depletion of all Glacier Bay salmon runs, as indicated by the 
reported catches, the bay was closed in 1925 to all commercial fishing for salmon. 
On the north shore of Chichagof Island at the eastern entrance to Idaho Inlet 
is a small bight known as Gull Cove. Into it flows a stream of unknown importance 
as a producer of salmon ; traps have been operated on both sides of the cove, but the 
one on the north shore caught practically all the salmon that were reported as coming 
from this locality. The record shows catches for 6 years, 1913, 1914, and from 1924 
to 1927. In the last 2 years, large numbers of pinks were caught and several thousand 
cohos, chums, and reds were also taken. Perhaps not one of these catches was made 
directly in the cove though the stream presumably supports something of a run of 
salmon. The presence of considerable numbers of kings and reds in the catches is, 
however, positive proof that the Gull Cove catches were not taken wholly or even to 
any large extent from local runs. Salmon passing eastward evidently touch the shore 
at this point before swinging down the coast toward Mud Bay, and are captured while 
passing the point where the trap is located. In some respects the data for Mud Bay 
are similar to those for Gull Cove. The stream at Mud Bay is not regarded as an 
important salmon stream; and it is certainly not a red-salmon stream, so the catch of 
14,282 red salmon recorded for that locality in 1920 in that bay can only be explained 
by the operation of traps which drew on the main run toward more eastern waters. 
The Icy Strait section of the Icy Strait district covers the waters east of a line 
from Point Adolphus to Point Gustavus to the end of the district at Point Couverden 
and Point Augusta. The data presented in the table include the catches from 15 
major and 10 minor localities and parts of certain catches from other districts for 
which no segregation was made by the packers. The minor localities are given here, 
with the year in which the catches were reported from each one, as follows : Icy Pas- 
sage in 1914 and 1923; Gedney Channel in 1917; Icy Strait and Cross Sound in 1917, 
1918, 1919, and 1923; Eagle Bluff and Neck Point in 1918; Soapstone Island in 1920; 
Flynn Cove in 1924; Riverside in 1926; and Eagle Cove and North Island in 1927. 
The catches which were divided were reported under the following locality designa- 
tions: “Icy Strait, Chatham Strait, Peril Strait and Bays” from 1905 to 1919 in- 
clusive; “Icy and Chatham Straits” from 1905 to 1921, inclusive; “Chatham, Peril, 
and Icy Straits and Bays, and Karheen” in 1921 and 1922; “Icy Strait and Frederick 
Sound” from 1918 to 1921, inclusive; “Icy Strait and Lynn Canal” in 1919; and 
“Icy Strait and Stephens Passage” in 1917 and 1919. No uniform rule could be 
applied in making a division of catches reported under these headings; it was found 
desirable to make allocations on the basis of local knowledge of the field and scope 
of operations of each packing company rather than to make an arbitrary division 
and to assign any constant fraction of the entire catch in each year to the localities 
involved. Such a procedure is quite unsatisfactory in many ways, particularly when 
seen from an orthodox statistical viewpoint; however, the desire is to present as 
complete and accurate picture of the history of these fisheries as is possible with the 
available information and it has seemed better to attempt such an allocation rather 
than to throw all catches in which two or more localities have been combined into the 
unallocated section, which is the only alternative. It is believed that on the whole 
the general picture will be more complete and significant if these allocations are made 
on the basis of such information as to local conditions as is now available and which 
is not likely to improve with the passage of time. 
