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BULLETIN OF THE BUREAU OF FISHERIES 
Next to the Admiralty shore, the bays on the northwest shore of Kuiu Island and 
those tributary to the northern part of Keku Strait constitute the most productive 
section of Frederick Sound. Several fairly large streams entering these bays support 
good runs of pinks and chums, particularly Security, Saginaw, Kadakes, Hamilton, 
and Big Johns Bays. The catch in Keku Strait proper also reached sizable propor- 
tions, disregarding the possibility of faulty allocation as many of the salmon reported 
as taken in the strait may well have come from the bays just named. The strait 
and its bays are fished largely by seines so that it is more than probable that much 
of the fishing was carried on near the streams and therefore in the bays, as few 
streams, if any, debouch directly into the strait. The catches in this locality include 
salmon reported from Keku Islet in 1926 and from Kake Harbor in 1926 and 1927. 
They also include part of the unallocated catch from Keku Strait and Frederick 
Sound in 1912 and part from “Frederick Sound, Keku and Chatham Straits” in 
1913. It was also necessary to divide the Keku Strait catches between the northern 
and southern parts of the strait as the southern section is included in the Simmer 
Strait district. This division affects the data for the years 1904 to 1908, 1912, and 
1914 to 1927. The catch at Port Camden in 1926 was increased by the addition of 
salmon reported in that year from Port “Compton” — a corruption of the correct 
name. The total for Kadakes Bay was augmented by the inclusion of fish reported 
from “Kardake Bay” in 1913. 
Security Bay and Saginaw Bay both show rather steady production of pinks and 
chums through 20 years. The larger catches in some years may be accounted for 
in the operation of traps at the entrance of the bays, but seine fishing was also 
successfully carried on in these waters. The catch in Saginaw Bay was increased by 
the inclusion of part of the salmon reported from Saginaw Bay and Chatham 
Strait in 1912, and that in Security Bay by a division of the salmon reported from 
Pleasant Bay and Security Bay in 1918. 
The unallocated catch in Frederick Sound reached comparatively large totals in 
several years, due to the failure of the operators to give more exact information as to 
the places where the salmon were caught. In other cases where definite allocations 
were made, the catches were small or fishing was not continuous. As no worthwhile 
purpose could be served in treating them separately, they were included in the 
unallocated catches of the sound. Catches from the following localities were so 
treated: Beacon Point, Meade Point, and Harbor Bay in 1925; Meade Point, Cyrus 
Catt Creek, and Petersburg in 1918; Kupreanof in 1920; Le Conte Bay in 1917 and 
1927; Muddy Kiver and Kasheen Bay in 1926; Point Gardner in 1917, 1919, 1920, and 
1927; Horigan Point in 1924; Kjeen Bay and Point Kingston in 1912; Donkey Bay 
in 1927; and Elliott Island in 1924. It was also necessary to divide certain catches 
reported under the following locality names: “Frederick Sound, Stephens Passage, 
and Sumner Strait” in 1923; “Icy, Chatham, and Peril Straits and Bays” in 1905 
to 1907 and from 1909 to 1919; “Icy Strait and Frederick Sound” in 1918 to 1921; 
“Keku Strait and Frederick Sound” in 1912; “Kake and Seymour Canal” in 1916; 
“Frederick Sound, Keku and Chatham Straits and tributaries” in 1913; “Chatham 
Strait, Frederick Sound, and Stephens Passage” in 1923; “Chatham Strait and 
Frederick Sound” in 1919; “Frederick Sound, Stephens Passage, and Sumner Strait” 
in 1923; “Sumner Strait and Frederick Sound” in 1914 and 1920; and “Admiralty 
Island” in 1919, 1920, and 1924. As was explained in the discussion of other districts 
and as will be done in reviewing the data for yet other districts, these divisions were 
based upon the best available information regarding the field of operations of the 
