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BULLETIN OF THE BUREAU OF FISHERIES 
(Sandy Point) and north of Deception Pass, which includes the San Juan Islands. 
The second district accounted for an additional 27 percent. In other words, 80 
percent of the trap catches during the past 40 years have been from the areas north 
of Deception Pass. Of the remaining 20 percent, less than 11 percent came from 
the inside waters of Puget Sound — east of Whidbey Island and south of Point Wilson. 
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SOCKEYE 
Fifty percent of the 
trap catch were sockeyes, 
34.9 percent pinks, 9.3 per- 
cent cohos, 3.6 percent kings, 
and only 2.2 percent chums. 
These figures, however, give 
only a general picture. If 
the catches are considered 
by districts it is found that 
the two districts north of 
Deception Pass caught 56.8 
percent of the sockeyes, 36 
percent of the pinks, 4.3 
percent of the cohos, 2.6 per- 
cent of the kings, and 0.4 
percent of the chums. That 
is, all but 7.3 percent of the 
catch consisted of but two 
species, sockeye and pink. 
In the West Beach and 
Ebeys Landing district the 
catch was 32.2 percent pinks, 
25.7 percent sockeyes, 20.8 
percent cohos, 16.9 percent 
kings, and 4.4 percent 
chums; the sockeye and 
pink, the two dominating 
species north of Deception 
Pass, thus accounting for 
but 58 percent of the catch. 
East of Whidbey Island 
and south of Point Wilson, 
except for the pinks, the 
catches are very different, being 43.5 percent cohos, 35.9 percent pinks, 13.9 percent 
chums, 6 percent kings, and only 0.8 percent sockeyes. 
The changes in the catch by decades in each of the 5 districts are apparent. 
The catches of pinks, for example, after being subjected to exploitation in the second 
decade, 1905-14, fell off tremendously in the third and fourth decades in the two 
northern areas. In district 5, however, they have continued to rise. 
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AREA NUMBERS 
Figure 12. — Showing the number of each species of salmon caught by traps in the 
major areas during each of the past four decades. 
