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show considerably larger production of these species. Several thousand king salmon 
were also taken by trollers in Sitka Sound. The unallocated catches on the west 
coast of Baranof Island includes small catches from Salisbury Sound in 1916; from 
Pacific Ocean in 1922, 1923, and 1924; from Puffin Bay in 1917 and 1924; from Still 
Harbor in 1916, 1921, 1924, and 1925; from “Salisbury Sound to Whale Bay” in 
1914; from Baranof Island in 1927; from Hot Springs Bay in 1911, 1912, and 1924; 
from Crab Bay in 1918 and 1925; from “Cape Edgecomb to Sea Lion Cove” in 
1918 and 1927; from Crawfish Inlet in 1920, 1922, and 1924; and from “Sitka to 
Salisbury Sound” in 1911, 1912, 1913, and 1917. All king and coho salmon which 
were taken by lines in off-shore fishing from Salisbury Sound to Cape Ommaney 
are included in the unallocated and total catch sections of table 13. This section of 
the coast is an important feeding ground of king and coho salmon and constitutes 
one of the most profitable fields of operations of the trollers whose fishing may be 
carried on without limitation of season or restriction of gear. The total catch of 
salmon by lines in the west coast of Chichagof and Baranof Islands district is shown 
in table 15. 
Table 15. — Catch of coho and king salmon in the West Coast of Chichagof and Baranof Islands dis- 
trict, by lines, 1911 to 1927 
[Included in table 13] 
Year 
Coho 
King 
Year 
Coho 
King 
1911 
1,472 
1,394 
1920 
11, 714 
5, 122 
31, 887 
298, 071 
46, 874 
78, 127 
78, 757 
113,239 
1912 
1921 
11, 050 
9, 146 
40, 994 
8,543 
48, 792 
57, 607 
1913 . 
10, 811 
16, 390 
1922 
1914 
1923 
1915 
487 
4,531 
1, 558 
17, 077 
1924 
1916 
555 
28, 813 
34, 227 
1925_ 
1917- 
1926 
1918 
1927 
Note. — N o catch was reported in 1919. 
PERIL STRAIT 
The Peril Strait district embraces all the waters of Chichagof and Baranof Islands 
between Kakul Narrows at the western entrance of the strait and a line from Point 
Craven to Point Thatcher at the eastern entrance. (See fig. 30.) 
Within these limits are 11 localities from which salmon have been consistently 
taken, only 1 of which, Rodman Bay, shows any production before 1911. It is 
likely, however, that some of the other bays were fished much earlier than the re- 
corded data indicate as in the earlier years practically the entire catch in Peril Strait 
was unallocated. Exploitation of these fisheries doubtless began when canneries 
were established at Freshwater and Sitkoh Bays, but no records are now available 
showing the catches in this district before 1904. The known development, however, 
as disclosed in the reported catches in Peril Strait, dates from 1904 with a catch of 
60,000 pinks in Rodman Bay and an unallocated catch of 7,000 reds, probably from 
Hanus Bay into which flows the outlet of Lake Eva, the only recognized red-salmon 
stream in the entire district. It is fair to assume that all of the unallocated catches 
of red salmon in Peril Strait came from this locality. Unfortunately, a very large 
part of the whole catch of salmon in the Peril Strait district, from 1904 to 1927, was 
reported without allocation to any of the several bays in that region. As a result 
of this faulty method of recording catches, Rodman Bay apparently produced no 
fish after 1904 until 1918, a most unlikely condition when viewed in the light of the 
