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BULLETIN OF THE BUREAU OF FISHERIES 
Table 6. — Catch of salmon in the Frederick Sound district, 1900 to 1903 
Year 
Coho 
Pink 
King 
Red 
3900 
15. 000 
38. 000 
1, 157 
44, 364 
400, 000 
1, 007, 000 
686, 836 
77, 078 
140. 000 
194.000 
110, 961 
69, 162 
1901 
3, 793 
181 
1902 
1903 
Beginning with 1904 and continuing through 1927 all data were taken from 
formal reports of the operators, but in this district, as in all others of southeastern 
Alaska, catches from entirely different bodies of water, often widely separated, were 
frequently combined and reported under a locality name embracing waters in two 
or more districts. The use of such data necessitated a somewhat arbitrary division 
of these catches in order that the real value of each district as a salmon-producing 
area might be shown. The only alternative was to show them as unallocated catches 
of southeastern Alaska and thus defeat to some extent the object of segregating the 
data of recognized fishery districts. There were also several catches from localities 
which have no geographic identification, which of necessity were included in the 
unallocated totals. A confusion of names was likewise encountered, but in most 
cases it was possible to make satisfactory corrections. All of these changes will be 
indicated in the discussion of the data for the different localities. 
The catch of salmon in the Frederick Sound district from 1904 to 1927 is shown 
in tables 7 and 8. Along the Admiralty Island shore between Point Gardner and 
Point Pybus are nine localities from which fair catches of salmon, mostly pinks and 
chums, have been taken. Of these, Murder Cove, Carroll Island, Point Brightman, 
Point Napean, Deepwater Point, Pybus Keef, and Point Pybus were trap locations, 
those nearer the western entrance of the sound producing the larger number of 
salmon. The more northerly locations were distinctly less productive, yet the inter- 
vening bays, three in number and known as Herring Bay, Eliza Harbor, and Pybus 
Bay, especially the latter, show catches comparable in size to those of the localities 
near the western entrance. The data for Pybus Bay, which includes catches from 
Little Pybus Bay in 1926 and from "Pipers” Bay in 1920 and 1923, indicate that this 
bay leads all other localities on the Admiralty shore in the production of pinks and 
chums. Its several streams probably constitute the best spawning areas on the 
north side of Frederick Sound. Large catches were made in the period of heavy 
exploitation from 1917 to 1920 and do not show the cyclic fluctuations which were 
decidedly conspicuous after 1923. The catch of all species in 1927, however, was 
the smallest reported from Pybus Bay in 10 years and doubtless was due to a scarcity 
of salmon. 
Notwithstanding the occasional poor catches, data for this section of the sound 
show no definite evidence of depletion of the runs. The trend of the catch since 1920 
has been upward and shows no indication of changing in the near future. 
