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BULLETIN OF THE BUREAU OF FISHERIES 
Many small streams are tributary to the several bays, inlets, and coves of the 
district and support small runs of salmon. The few large streams of the district are 
tributary to Bradfield Canal, easterly of the intersection of Blake Channel, but they 
support only small runs of salmon. Anan Creek, one of the most noted p in k-s alm on 
streams of southeastern Alaska, is located in this district. 
It is not known when commercial fishing began here. Available records indicate 
that salmon were taken from these waters for canning purposes as early as 1895, and 
presumably as early as 1887, the year of the opening of a cannery at Gerard Point 
near the mouth of the Stikine Kiver, but here, as in nearly all other districts, the can- 
neries were preceded by salteries, the operations of which were not recorded, leaving 
the date of the inception of the industry doubtful. The salteries were primarily 
interested in pickling red salmon and the first canneries centered their attention on 
the same species exploiting the runs to streams in the immediate vicinity of Wrangell. 
When utilization of the other species commenced, fishing became quite general 
throughout the district and brought about the establishment of canneries at Union 
Bay, Santa Anna Inlet, and Point Warde, while plants in adjacent districts extended 
their operations into this field. 
Table 24. — Salmon caught and fishing appliances used in the Ernest Sound district, 1896 to 1927 
Year 
Coho 
Chum 
Pink 
King 
Red 
Beach seines 
Purse seines 
Gill nets 
Traps 
(num- 
ber) 
Num- 
ber 
Fath- 
oms 
Num- 
ber 
Fath- 
oms 
Num- 
ber 
Fath- 
oms 
Aaron Creek: 
1907 
350 
2,854 
21, 855 
218 
144 
1913 
7, 100 
13 
375, 000 
1917 
14 
74 
1 
Anan Creek: 
1897 _ 
1905_ 
200 
33 
1, 789 
1,009 
54 
75 
216 
337 
160 
377 
1,258 
2! 208 
1,643 
327 
320 
2,716 
9,137 
1,265 
1,813 
14 
4 
1906 
35, 184 
11, 489 
37 
2,377 
20, 747 
39, 453 
4,739 
2,333 
6, 172 
13, 721 
5,960 
14, 931 
11, 511 
2,459 
474 
167 
9,982 
8, 646 
4, 509 
14, 647 
959 
409 
475 
925 
9,203 
2,744 
7,144 
4,827 
5,842 
3, 380 
17, 834 
1, 163 
1,776 
1, 517 
1,284 
2,014 
1,612 
194 
23, 651 
891, 194 
155, 083 
1, 033, 490 
640, 536 
855, 711 
290, 701 
277. 192 
148, 735 
410, 813 
319, 697 
100. 192 
204, 028 
104,878 
49[ 543 
213, 094 
461, 992 
90, 424 
176, 343 
98 
1,036 
50 
829 
24 
228 
345 
4 
1 
52 
62 
91 
31 
59 
3 
1907 
1, 620 
124 
616 
l| 108 
281 
55 
392 
214 
741 
814 
521 
837 
14 
46 
1,742 
1908. 
1909 
1910 
1911 
1912 
1913 
1914_ 
1915. 
1916 
1917 
1918 
1919 
1920 
1921 
1922 
110 
28 
39 
145 
1923 
1924 
1925 
Anita Bay: 
1907. 
1908 
1910 
12 
93 
82 
6,388 
43, 802 
13, 063 
14, 545 
9,259 
13, 248 
29, 750 
9, 219 
11, 893 
2,156 
637 
16, 980 
12, 524 
21, 876 
1.979 
1911 
3, 191 
65 
10 
361 
1, 058 
1,994 
407 
’592 
354 
593 
3, 467 
48 
32 
2 
1912 
1913 
1914 
1915 
1916 
64 
23 
55 
55 
448 
61 
3 
1917 
1918 
1919 
1920 
1922 
Blake Channel: 
1916 
47 
6 
1917 
1918 — . 
