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evidence in support of this conclusion will be presented in the discussion of the 1935 and 
1936 taggings near Cape Chacon. 
TAGGING EXPERIMENTS IN THE VICINITY OF CAPE MUZON 
In discussing the tagging experiments in the immediate vicinity of Cape Chacon 
it was pointed out that a considerable number of the recoveries were reported from 
area 6 and the localities of Cordova Bay and contiguous channels. Of the 924 salmon 
recovered from the experiments near Cape Chacon, 241 were captured in area 6. It 
would appear that considerable numbers of the pink salmon migrating into Clarence 
Strait during the latter part of the season are bound for the localities of Cordova Bay 
and are milling about in an attempt to find them. A review of the results from the 
tagging experiments carried on late in the season at Cape Muzon, Kaigani Point, and 
Kaigani Strait points (see table 2), located at the entrance to Cordova Bay, will show 
that part of the pink salmon migrating into Cordova Bay are bound for areas 1, 2, 3, 
and 4. The results from these experiments are given in the last four columns of table 2. 
A total of 3,809 pink salmon were tagged at these three locations, of which 968, or 
25.4 percent, were recovered. Of the total number recovered 57 were captured in 
area 1, 122 in area 2, 28 in area 3, 4 in area 4, 755 in area 6, and 2 in an outlying area. 
Since these taggings were carried on at approximately the same time in the fishing 
season as those near Cape Chacon, it is not surprising to find considerable numbers of 
the tagged individuals captured in area 2. 
In summarizing the results from the tagging experiments carried on in the vicinity 
of Cape Chacon and Cape Muzon, it is evident that during the latter part of the season 
the pink salmon move in from Dixon Entrance to the southern shores of Prince of 
Wales Island, and after milling about for some time separate into populations that are 
bound for the localities in area 6, and populations that are bound for the localities in 
areas 1, 2, 3, and 4. 
PINK-SALMON TAGGING EXPERIMENTS IN CLARENCE STRAIT IN 
1935 AND 1936 
In the summers of 1935 and 1936 series of consecutive weekly taggings of pink 
salmon were carried on in Clarence Strait in the vicinity of Cape Chacon. These 
taggings were made from a trap at McLean Point, located on the east shore of Prince 
of Wales Island, approximately 7 miles north of Cape Chacon. The taggings at 
McLean Point were all made from the trap operated at this location by the Alaska 
Pacific Salmon Co., and the Bureau of Fisheries wishes to express its appreciation for 
the cooperation of this company in furnishing these facilities, and the salmon that were 
tagged. 
In Alaska, commercial fishing for salmon is prohibited by law from 6 p. m. Satur- 
day to 6 a. m. Monday during the entire fishing season. All of the taggings in both 
series, with the exception of the first and fourth in 1935, were carried on at the begin- 
ning of the weekly closed periods. This provided an opportunity for the tagged in- 
dividuals to migrate from the location at which they were tagged for at least 34 hours 
before they were again subject to capture. By following this procedure only a few 
were recaptured in the trap from which they had been tagged. The dates of the weekly 
experiments, and the number of pink salmon tagged in each, are given in table 4 for 
the 1935 series and in table 5 for the 1936 series of experiments. 
