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BULLETIN OF THE BUREAU OF FISHERIES 
On the Admiralty shore of Stephens Passage are two important localities which 
have produced good runs of pink and chum salmon. These are Gambier Bay and 
Seymour Canal of which Pleasant Bay, Mole Harbor, and Windfall Harbor are 
tributaries. The catches from Gambier Bay probably include salmon caught off the 
entrance of the bay and therefore may not be exclusively Gambier Bay fish, but 
the Seymour Canal catches are undoubtedly properly allocated as most of the fishing 
in those waters was well within the canal. The possibility of error lies only in the 
division of comparatively inconsequential catches reported from Pleasant Bay and 
Security Bay in 1918 and from Kake and Seymour Canal in 1916. Due to the 
purity of these runs, it is possible to make a more detailed analysis of the Seymour 
Canal catches than can be made in respect of the runs in any other Stephens Passage 
locality, excepting possibly Taku Inlet. The combined catches of chums and pinks 
in Seymour Canal, Windfall Harbor, Mole Harbor, and Pleasant Bay, with small 
catches reported from Oliver Inlet in 1912 and 1913 and from Flaw Point in 1925, 
are shown graphically in figure 27. Other species are not considered because the 
catches were too insignificant. 
These graphs indicate that very little fishing was done in Seymour Canal before 
1912, due perhaps to the absence of much competition for fish and the ability of the 
few packing plants then in the district to secure a supply of salmon nearer the can- 
neries. With the establishment of more canneries on Stephens Passage, and an 
increase in the demand for salmon, Seymour Canal became a profitable field of opera- 
tions and a consistent producer of pinks and chums until the economic break in 1921 
and 1922. As the depression subsided, fishing was resumed, but the rather even 
production of pink salmon in the earlier years gave way to wide fluctuations which 
show good yields only in the even years, a condition very generally observed through- 
out southeastern Alaska. The catches in these years reached approximately the 
level of earlier good years notwithstanding the restrictions that were imposed in 1924 
and subsequent years. The catch of chums since 1921 has held approximately the 
same level as it did before that time. There appears to be little evidence of depletion 
in the catches of pinks and chums in Seymour Canal. 
Gambier Bay has made important contributions to the catch of chum and pink 
salmon in the Stephens Passage district, but the catch declined materially after the 
