SOUTHEASTERN ALASKA SALMON STATISTICS 
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Table 26 shows the number of salmon that was reported as caught in the 
Revillagigedo Channel district from 1892 to 1927. It contains data for 44 localities 
and gives the unallocated catches of the district in an additional section. Certain 
catches were combined as follows: Black Island and Black Islet under the name 
first used; Boca de Quadra catches include fish from Breezy Cove, Badger Bay, 
Sockeye Creek, and a part of the salmon reported from “Boca de Quadra, Behm 
Canal, and Chomly Sound” in 1911, part from “Smeaton Bay, Boca de Quadra, and 
George Inlet” in 1915; and part from “Smeaton Bay, Behm Canal, and Boca de 
Quadra” in 1912; “Bald Island” catches were added to those from Bold Island; 
salmon from “Carr Inlet,” “Carl Bay,” and Gnat Cove were counted as Carroll Inlet 
catches; Cone Island catches were combined with those from Cone Point; Felice 
Strait data include fish from Dog Island, Cat Island, and Pond Bay; Nasaler Harbor 
salmon were added to those from Hassler Harbor; and Cape Fox Village catches were 
combined with those from Kirk Point. The unallocated catches were increased by 
the inclusion of the salmon from 15 minor localities, as follows: Dixon Entrance, 
Nettie Island, Tongass George Creek, Custom House Cove, Hill Creek, Sandy Bay, 
Gravina Point, White Reef, George Inlet No. 8, Quadra Point, Seal Cove, Niquette 
Point, Cascade Inlet, George Inlet Packing Co. trap no. 1, and Morse Cove. 
The runs of salmon in the Revillagigedo Channel district come mainly from Dixon 
Entrance and strike the shore in large numbers at many points between Tree Point 
near Cape Fox and Mountain Point on the west side of the entrance to George Inlet. 
Large catches were made by traps in these localities, as shown by the data for Point 
Alava, Black Island, Bold Island, Foggy Bay, Foggy Point, Kah Shakes Cove, Kah 
Shakes Point, Slate Island, Tongass Narrows, and Tree Point. These data show 
clearly that a heavy migration moves northward along this entire shore and that the 
catches were substantially as large in the northern part of the district as they were 
in the southern part. Moreover, large numbers of salmon left this route of migration 
to enter Boca de Quadra, Thorne Arm, Carroll Inlet, and George Inlet. Fairly large 
catches were also made along the eastern shore of Annette Island. 
The fisheries in very few localities in this district are sufficiently distinct and 
separate from the general fisheries of the district as to make individual consideration 
of them worth while at this time. Of those which are fairly distinct, that of Boca de 
Quadra is the most important. Fishing began here with the exploitation of the red 
salmon at Sockeye Creek. In 1898 coho and pink salmon were taken for the first 
time. Eight years later chums were taken, but kings were not reported from this 
locality before 1917, the catches always being small and probably made by traps at 
the entrance of the bay. The catch of reds, cohos, pinks, and chums is shown 
graphically in Figure 50. 
This graph shows that the red-salmon fishery was most productive in the period 
from 1895 to 1912. A sharp decline came in 1912 and 1913, which brought the catch 
from an average of approximately 100,000 down to about 20,000. In 1918 a further 
decline took place, and from then to 1927 the annual catch has averaged less than 
10,000. The reduction of the catches probably resulted in part from the closing of 
all waters within 500 yards of the mouth of Sockeye Creek on January 1, 1916, in 
order to conserve the runs for fish-cultural purposes, since the Northwestern Fisheries 
Co. was then and is still operating a hatchery on a tributary of Hugh Smith Lake, of 
which Sockeye Creek is the outlet. This is the only stream tributary to Boca de 
Quadra that supports an appreciable run of red salmon. On January 1, 1925, this 
