640 
BULLETIN OF THE BUREAU OF FISHERIES 
Island to the southern limit of the district. A line due south from Cape Fox for m s the 
eastern boundary of the district in Dixon Entrance. The eastern boundary at the 
southern entrance to Behm Canal is defined by a line from Point Alava to a point on 
the mainland shore 2 miles south of Point Sykes. It is a small district, barely 62 miles 
in length, and in the main embraces the waters of Tongass Narrows, Felice Strait, and 
Revillagigedo Channel and their tributary bays and streams. (See fig. 49.) 
Four rather long bays or inlets indent the eastern shore of the district, while 
numerous smaller bodies of water break the shores of Annette and Duke Islands, all 
of which contain the outlets of salmon streams. 
The earliest recorded catches of salmon in this district were made at Kah Shakes 
Cove and George Inlet in 1892. In the next 3 years fisheries were opened, in the order 
named, at Annette Island, Ketchikan Creek, and Boca de Quadra, and in 1897 at 
Ward Cove. Apparently no other localities were fished until after 1900. No stream 
statistics are available for the years 1901 to 1903, inclusive, but it is probable that 
most of the localities listed for the first time in 1904 were fished during the 3 years for 
which data could not be obtained. 
The first cannery in this district was located on Boca de Quadra in 1883, where it 
was operated until 1886. It was then moved to Ketchikan and continued to pack 
salmon until 1889, when it burned. In 1896, another cannery was opened on Mink 
Arm of Boca de Quadra, and is still in existence. The third cannery was located at 
Ketchikan in 1900, and it likewise is still in operation. From 1889 to 1902, three 
salteries were opened on Boca de Quadra and operated for varying lengths of time. 
One was also built on Tongass Narrows in 1902, but was operated only during that 
season. This constitutes the early history of the salmon industry in this district as 
far as it concerns the plants within the district, although canneries in adjacent dis- 
tricts took salmon from these waters. From this beginning, the salmon-canning 
business grew rapidly and in a few years made Ketchikan the most important fishery 
point in Alaska, there being a concentration of canneries, salteries, and freezing plants 
at this port, which later developed a large export trade in fresh fish. 
Table 26. — Salmon caught and fishing appliances used in the Revillagigedo Channel district, 1892 
to 1927 
Year 
Coho 
Chum 
Pink 
King 
Bed 
Beach seines 
Purse seines 
Oill nets 
Traps 
(num- 
ber) 
Num- 
ber 
Fath- 
oms 
Num- 
ber 
Fath- 
oms 
Num- 
ber 
Fath- 
oms 
Alava, Point: 
1912 
4,000 
1,026 
6,708 
1, 456 
728 
1,063 
5,089 
38 
796 
1,035 
'465 
2,814 
1, 182 
2,000 
7,422 
37. 295 
2,877 
2,111 
6,047 
14.295 
24 
12, 742 
11, 736 
10, 056 
8, 171 
6,380 
120,000 
53, 056 
229, 414 
95, 550 
38,911 
46,096 
223, 238 
659 
41, 674 
78,235 
130, 860 
14,405 
22, 314 
73,220 
140,000 
68,000 
29,000 
20,348 
18, 681 
187 
2,828 
4,000 
2,941 
3,041 
1,761 
4, 719 
3, 214 
6,639 
18 
1, 101 
1,690 
3,435 
2,071 
271 
6, 945 
1017 

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1094 
7 
109? 
lQ9fi 
116 
60 

Annette Bay: 
1912 
A.nnette Island: 

" 
1,898 
417 
2 
47 
3, 515 
316 
1, 443 
28,455 

265 
2 
21 
1923 
1924 
