SOUTHEASTERN ALASKA SALMON STATISTICS 
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coast of Baranof Island, Prince of Wales Island, Tyee, and Chatham Strait” in 1913; 
“Cape Ommaney and Forrester Island” in 1917; and “Clarence and Sumner Straits, 
Revillagigedo Channel, and Pacific Ocean” in 1923. These catches were composed 
of salmon from two or more districts and involved rather large totals, so that it seemed 
better to divide them in accordance with known facts concerning the field of operations 
of each company so reporting than to group them as unallocated catches in the 
whole of southeastern Alaska. In several cases catches from two or more localities 
within the district were combined by the packing companies; all such data were used 
without change by including them in the unallocated catch section of the table, 
as in this way the district receives full credit for the salmon it produced although 
catches of the individual localities are thereby reduced. These inseparable combina- 
tions were reported as follows: “Davidson Inlet, Gulf of Esquibel, and Sea Otter 
Sound” in 1912; “Forrester, Noyes and San Pedro Islands” in 1913; “Forrester and 
Noyes Islands” in 1915-17; “Karheen and Warmchuck” in 1914; “Noyes and San 
Pedro Islands” in 1913, and “Sea Otter Sound, Trocadero Bay, and Pacific Ocean” 
in 1912. 
The table shows the catches at 115 known localities, many of which are of com- 
paratively recent development while others were among the first to be fished. In 
several cases the data are fragmentary, representing catches in 1 or 2 years only or in 
rather widely separated years. The table, therefore, presents all the known facts in 
respect of these places. Some of them were trap locations and others were trolling 
grounds. The scattered catches in such places may have little significance, but are 
presented for the sake of completeness and in view of their possible later significance. 
Among the more productive localities where fishing has been maintained through a 
long period of years, Klawak Inlet stands out as the most interesting in the entire 
district on account of the fact that it has been fished longest and has shown the greatest 
yield. Unfortunately the complete history of this fishery cannot be given, as no 
catch statistics are available before 1886 and none in the three years from 1901 to 1903. 
It is known that a saltery was operated at Klawak for several years before the cannery 
was opened in 1878 and that for nearly 2 decades the catch consisted largely of red 
salmon, as no other species appears to have been recorded from this stream until 1898, 
except 92,094 pinks in 1889 and 2,667 cohos in 1896. These species were undoubtedly 
always obtainable here, but no commercial use was made of them by the cannery at 
that time. The Klawak stream was never regarded as a large producer of red salmon, 
but it maintained for many years a fairly constant catch in spite of the rather intensive 
fishing that had centered there. 
A pink salmon fishery of considerable importance was developed at Klawak after 
1898 and the catch of cohos and chums also reached fairly high levels. King salmon 
were reported first in 1908, when 9,200 were alleged to have been taken. Large 
catches of kings were also recorded in 1918, 1921, and 1925; none of these was made at 
the creek, but came from outside waters and were delivered at Klawak for mild curing. 
The other catches of kings were probably taken in traps along the shore between Craig 
and Klawak Island. The stream has no king salmon run, though stragglers are 
occasionally found among the other schools of salmon. The catch of salmon in Kla- 
wak Inlet is shown graphically in figure 36. 
The catch of red salmon shows the first marked decline in 1925, when it dropped 
about 40 percent below the catch of the preceding season. A further decrease occurred 
in 1926, bringing the catch down to 10,734, and in 1927 the catch was 10,012, the 
lowest figure it had reached since 1886. While positive proof is lacking, it is probable 
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