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BULLETIN OF THE BUREAU OF FISHERIES 
to utilize Taku River salmon, although a saltery had been opened near the head of 
Taku Inlet in 1897 and operated a few years. During these early years fishery 
establishments changed hands frequently, and often were operated only one or two 
seasons, consequently reliable statistics of catches were not always obtained from the 
packers. All salmon which were taken in Taku Inlet and canned at Chilkat were 
probably recorded as Chilkat Inlet fish, and it is also likely that similar errors in allo- 
cation of catches occurred after the establishment of canneries near Taku, at least 
during the years that the Chilkat canneries drew on the Taku fisheries for a supply 
of salmon. Eventually this practice was discontinued. 
Prior to 1904 packers were not required to make allocations of catches to definite 
streams or bays, so that no information is now available to show the source of supply 
of the salmon used in those earlier years, but in order to make the review as complete 
as possible by presenting all available data, a separate table, showing as unallocated 
catches the salmon probably caught in the Stephens Passage district before 1904, 
is given in table 9. It does not take into consideration the Stephens Passage salmon 
which were utilized outside of the district. 
Table 9. — Catch of salmon in the Stephens Passage district, 1900 to 1903 1 
Year 
Coho 
Chum 
Pink 
King 
Red 
1900 
16, 292 
110, 185 
42, 802 
67, 973 
30, 180 
93, 881 
485, 997 
587, 979 
892, 890 
22, 653 
16,444 
22, 300 
2,284 
117, 878 
199, 924 
264, 917 
291, 108 
1901 
1902 
1903 
1 The data for 1900 were obtained from Moser’s pack figures, (1902, pp. 260 and 313), by reducing the number of cases reported by 
him to fish, using his average number of fish per case in making the calculations. Two companies were operating in this field. 
Moser’s averages per case were as follows: Kings, 2.8 and 3; reds, 9; cohos, 7; pinks, 21; and chums, 6.5 and 7. The figures for other 
years were taken from the reports of the Treasury agents. 
From 1904 to 1927 all data used in this report were obtained from formal reports 
of operators on file at the Bureau of Fisheries in Washington. In several cases catches 
in this district were combined with catches from other districts and so reported. A 
division as between districts, therefore, has been made somewhat arbitrarily but as 
fairly as possible in the fight of all information now available, but allocation to definite 
bays or streams could not be made. Tables 10 and 11 show in detail the catch of 
salmon in this district. Catches from 26 localities have been given separately, and 
those from 21 unimportant or undetermined localities were merged with those indi- 
cated. Where catches were reported from two localities under one name, as “Pleas- 
ant Bay and Security Bay” divisions were made in accordance with our understanding 
of the extent of operations in each field by the operators concerned. Probably no 
other course could give a more satisfactory allocation of catches at this time. The 
only alternative would have been to throw all such catches in with the unallocated 
catches of the district; but, as in the case cited, where the joined localities were in 
different districts, this could not be done. It was also necessary in the case of some 
of the early years to make allocations to the district from the unallocated catches of 
southeastern Alaska as a whole, due to the failure of the operators to show localities 
at all. In such cases, allocations were made to the waters in the vicinity of the plants 
of the packers so reporting. 
