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BULLETIN OF THE BUREAU OF FISHERIES 
Table 25 shows the catch of salmon in the Behm Canal district. It lists the 
recorded catches from 58 localities besides a large unallocated catch comprising data 
from 23 additional localities which were not of sufficient importance to be shown 
separately and all salmon which were reported merely from Behm Canal. Parts of 
the catches reported from Loring and vicinity in 1904, 1905, and 1906 are also included 
in the unallocated section. The minor localities were as follows: Blind Pass, Brow 
Point, Brownly Bay, Cove Inlet, Claude Point, Cove Point, Hassler Pass, Herman 
Bay, Humpback Bay, Humpback Creek, Hump Bay, Hump Creek, Ice Point, Neah 
Bay, Point Whaley, Saks Cove, Salt Lake, Shoalwater Pass, Swedish Meadows, Trunk 
Creek, Wadding Cove, White Point, and Wold Creek. 
Several combinations of catches were made where names were apparently incor- 
rectly spelled. Thus it was assumed that “Cheater Cove” was intended for Checats 
Cove; “Rodrick Bay,” “Rogers Bay,” and “Rudgers Bay” were meant for Rudyerd 
Bay; “Traders Cove” for Traitors Cove; “Mesh Bay” and “Meash Bay” for Neets 
Bay; Clover Passage and Hump Island catches were combined under the name of 
the Clover Passage; Smeaton Bay catches include part of the fish reported from 
“Smeaton Bay and Checats Cove,” from “Smeaton Bay, Boca de Quadra, and 
George Inlet,” and all salmon from Wilson Arm. Bell Island catches include small 
lots of salmon reported from Behm Narrows and Bell Arm. 
The Behm Canal fisheries were first exploited at those streams which supplied 
red salmon, Naha Bay, Yes Bay, and Checats Cove being the more important. At 
this time practically all fishing was carried on by means of seines operated near the 
mouths of the streams. With the introduction of traps much of the fishing was 
transferred to the open waters of the canal at points where the fish passed close to 
the shore in their migration to the streams. As the number of traps increased the 
catches in the canal proper became larger and finally exceeded those from the bays. 
Salmon enter Behm Canal through both entrances. Those using the northern 
entrance probably approach it chiefly from the south through Clarence Strait ; those 
coming to the eastern part of the canal pass through the southern entrance from 
Revillagigedo Channel. Available information shows that the Behm Canal runs 
come mainly from southern waters. The tagging experiments in Sumner Strait in 
1924 and subsequent years disclosed that some salmon came to the canal from the 
northwest through Sumner and Clarence Straits, but the movement from that direc- 
tion was far less significant than that from the south as shown by the results of tag- 
ging on the west coast of Gravina Island, at Cape Fox, and at Cape Chacon. After 
the runs enter the canal there is probably little or no mingling of those using the 
northern entrance with those coming through the southern entrance. Trap fishing 
is concentrated at both entrances and the largest catches are made in these sections 
of the canal. 
In the first 8 years of salmon fishing in this district only red and coho salmon were 
utilized ; chiefly reds, as cohos were reported in 3 years only. Pink salmon were canned 
first in 1895, and since then have formed the principal product of this region. Two 
years later a catch of chums was reported, but this species was unimportant until 
after 1908. King salmon were taken at Burroughs Bay and other parts of Behm 
Canal long before catches were recorded, although the data here considered indicate 
that none was caught until 1909. 
The omissions of the earlier years and the incorrect allocation of catches in later 
years have made it impossible to show with much accuracy the total production of this 
