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catches were noticeably lower during the years from 1920 to 1923 immediately follow- 
ing the period of intensive fishing and inflated prices for both raw and canned salmon. 
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Figure 20. — Catch of pink salmon in the Chatham Strait district, 1901 to 1927. 
Disregarding these extremes, as representative of abnormal conditions, it is apparent 
that there was little or no change in the trend of the catches for the decade or more 
Figure 21. — Catch of king salmon in the Chatham Strait district, 1900 to 1927. 
just preceding 1927. The graph illustrating the catch of red salmon is interesting in 
that the trend held a steady upward slope from 1900 until 1921, when it dropped 
sharply, due to the very limited fishing of that year. The catch improved again in 
