662 
BULLETIN OF THE BUREAU OF FISHERIES 
from the 1935 and 1936 experiments at Point Colpoys, are given in table 8. The 
taggings at Point Colpoys were made from the trap operated at this location by the 
Pacific American Fisheries, Inc., 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. 
Table 7.- — Pink salmon tagged in Sumner Strait, 1924-86, and number recovered 1 
[Column headings indicate locality and date of tagging] 
Point 
Col- 
poys, 
July 10, 
1926 
Point 
Col- 
poys, 
July 26- 
30, 1927 
Point 
Col- 
poys, 
Aug. 13, 
1935 
Point 
Col- 
poys, 
Aug. 16, 
1936 
Total, 
Point 
Col- 
poys 
Ruins 
Point, 
July 18- 
25, 1925 
Ruins 
Point, 
July 12- 
Aug. 3, 
1924 
Cape 
De- 
cision, 
July 30, 
1927 
Total, 
Ruins 
Point 
and 
Cape 
De- 
cision 
Number tagged. 
259 
569 
386 
498 
1,712 
1, 217 
250 
162 
1,629 
LOCALITY OF RECOVERY 
Sumner Strait (all points).— Area 5 
Total recovered 
2 
6 
9 
9 
26 
295 
20 
8 
323 
Percent recovered 
0.8 
1. 1 
2.3 
1.8 
1.5 
24. 2 
8.0 
4.9 
19.8 
Upper Clarence Strait.— Area 4 
Point Colpoys 
32 
6 
5 
43 
Snow Passage and Stikine Strait 
3 
13 
19 
84 
119 
36 
2 
38 
Narrow Point, Ernest Point to Point Harrington, 
and East Island.. _ 
8 
34 
47 
66 
155 
30 
3 
2 
35 
Total recovered 
11 
47 
66 
150 
274 
98 
9 
9 
116 
Percent recovered 
4.2 
8.3 
17. 1 
30. 1 
16.0 
8.2 
3.6 
5.6 
7. 1 
Middle Clarence Strait.— Area 3 
Ernest Sound — - - 
28 
88 
3 
6 
125 
29 
2 
2 
33 
Approach Point, Caamano Point to Narrow Point 
and Ernest Point 
11 
39 
20 
7 
77 
15 
2 
2 
19 
Total recovered 
39 
127 
23 
13 
202 
44 
4 
4 
52 
Percent recovered _ 
15. 1 
22.2 
6.0 
2.6 
11.8 
3.6 
1.6 
2.5 
3.2 
Lower Clarence Strait.— Area 2 
East shore of Prince of Wales Island from Approach 
Point to Brownson Bay: 
1 
4 
2 
6 
13 
6 
3 
9 
Percent recovered- 
0.4 
0.7 
0.5 
1.2 
0.8 
0.5 
1.2 
0.0 
0.6 
Lower Clarence Strait.— Area 1 
West shores of Gravina, Annette, and Duke Islands. 
2 
21 
4 
9 
36 
13 
1 
14 
4 
6 
2 
12 
1 
1 
1 
1 
1 
8 
2 
3 
14 
7 
2 
9 
1 
1 
4 
4 
2 
2 
1 
1 
2 
Total recovered.. 
8 
38 
6 
14 
66 
26 
3 
1 
30 
Percent recovered 
3. 1 
6.7 
1.6 
2.8 
3.8 
2. 1 
1.2 
0.6 
1.8 
Outlying Areas 
27 
7 
34 
Chatham Strait and Frederick Sound (all points) 
2 
1 
3 
7 
3 
16 
26 
2 
1 
3 
34 
10 
16 
60 
Percent recovered..- 
0.8 
0.2 
0.0 
0.0 
0.2 
2.8 
4.0 
9.9 
3.7 
SUMMARY: 
Total recovered. . 
63 
223 
106 
192 
584 
503 
49 
38 
590 
Percent recovered 
24.3 
39.2 
27.5 
38.5 
34. 1 
41.3 
19.6 
23.5 
36.2 
1 These data do not include recoveries reported from the point of tagging nor those doubtful as to location of capture. See text, 
p. 647. The original records of the tagging experiments from 1924 to 1927 are given in the reports of Rich 1926, Rich and Suomela 1927 , 
and Rich and Morton 1929. 
TAGGING EXPERIMENTS AT RUINS POINT AND CAPE DECISION 
Ruins Point is located on the east side and Cape Decision on the west side of the 
entrance to Sumner Strait. Point Colpoys is located in the central part of the strait 
where, through Snow Passage, Sumner Strait connects with the northern part of 
