SOUTHEASTERN ALASKA SALMON STATISTICS 
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of 56° 40' north latitude. Within these boundaries are several bays on the southern 
coast of Admiralty Island, the northern coast of Kuiu and Kupreanof Islands, and 
yet others on the mainland between Cape Fanshaw and Stikine River. (See fig. 23.) 
The district contains no outstanding salmon streams and no exceptionally large 
catches have ever been reported from any particular locality, although in the aggregate 
a few seasons have produced much more than the general average for the period here 
considered. With few exceptions the larger catches were made by traps distributed 
along the shores of Admiralty and Kuiu Islands. Catches reported from the bays 
were made largely by seines. 
Salmon canning in this district commenced in 1900 at a plant on Wrangell 
Narrows where the town of Petersburg is now located. In 1901 another cannery 
was established on Wrangell Narrows about 10 miles south of Petersburg. A saltery 
was opened in the same year at Ideal Cove in Dry Strait near the north mouth of 
Stikine River. Records of the catch of salmon by these packers do not show the 
localities in which the fish were caught, although Kutchin, in the Treasury reports 
for the years 1900, 1901, 1902, and 1903, gives the total number of salmon utilized by 
each company. Presumably some of these catches were made in the Frederick 
Sound district, and it is equally probable that some were made in the Sumner Strait 
district as the plants were located near the boundary of the two districts. No allo- 
cation of these catches is attempted, but in order to make the fullest use of available 
data, they are shown in the following table. 
