798 
BULLETIN OF THE BUREAU OF FISHERIES 
The total catch by all gear in the region during these 8 years was 3,861,082 fish. 
Trollers on the high seas landed 40.02 percent of the total catch, and inside trollers 
0.47 percent, a total of 40.40 percent. Puget Sound traps took 39.02 percent of the 
king catch during these years, Fraser River gill nets 8.19 percent, and Puget Sound 
gill nets 6.60 percent. Purse seiners on the high seas took 1.80 percent and those on 
Puget Sound 3.69 percent, a total of 5.49 percent. Landings from miscellaneous gear 
amounted to 0.21 percent of the total. The catch of trollers in the region of Swiftsure 
Bank differs from the “inside” gear in that it must, in view of the migrations indicated 
by tagging experiments, contain a considerable proportion of fish from populations 
other than those of the Puget Sound-Fraser River region. 
LOCALITY OF TRAP CATCHES 
A consideration of catch data from traps shows the general proportions of the 
king-salmon catches in the different parts of the Puget Sound district. These data, 
from 1895-1934, are presented in table 42. The districts used are similar to those 
discussed under trap catches of coho salmon in the preceding section. 
The total catch of king salmon includes 5,659,793 fish. Of this total, 2,644,524 
were taken in traps north of Deception Pass, the greater part of these being from the 
populations of rivers in the northern part of the region. There were 1,741,479 fish 
from districts wherein a considerable mixture of populations migrating to both north- 
ern and southern streams must be present; 1,128,835 fish were taken in the southern 
portions of the region, and 144,955 fish were taken in miscellaneous and unidentified 
areas. These data indicate that the greater portion of the catch of king salmon on 
Puget Sound is supplied by the populations of the northern rivers, and the size of the 
catch in the northernmost districts would further indicate that a considerable portion 
of these populations are migrating to the Fraser River and to the smaller streams 
entering the Gulf of Georgia. 
Table 42 . — Annual catch of king salmon in different areas, 1895-1934 1 
Year 
Area 
Total 
Point 
Roberts 
and 
Bound- 
ary 
Bay 
Sandy 
Point 
to 
Bound- 
ary 
Bay 
Lummi 
Island 
and 
Ro- 
sario 
Strait 
Haro 
Strait 
and 
Wald- 
ron 
Island 
Salm- 
on 
Banks 
and 
South 
Lopez 
Hope 
Island 
and 
Skagit 
Bay 
West 
Beach 
West 
of 
Middle 
Point 
Admi- 
ralty 
Inlet 
Lower 
Sound 
Mis- 
cella- 
neous 
Un- 
identi- 
fied 
1895 
912 
10, 192 
1,449 
30, 255 
19, 980 
30, 979 
7,881 
5,312 
6, 005 
15, 695 
14, 105 
8,731 
14, 952 
8, 843 
7, 374 
14, 542 
28, 054 
22, 442 
912 
11,077 
8,788 
33, 394 
40, 019 
98, 397 
41, 103 
53, 550 
46, 965 
61. 194 
56, 545 
72, 264 
79, 955 
98, 980 
58, 675 
107, 229 
136, 362 
109, 544 
1896 __ 
97 
3, 164 
41 
12, 286 
364 
3, 568 
5, 497 
5, 563 
5,807 
4,883 
8, 048 
6, 543 
8, 475 
9, 877 
18, 144 
25, 996 
22,785 
788 
1897 __ 
720 
3, 000 
4,635 
9, 215 
4,442 
7,681 
15, 427 
17, 478 
5, 065 
7, 9S1 
8,829 
8, 922 
5,666 
21, 478 
26, 590 
19, 461 
71 
3, 384 
94 
79 
5, 758 
5, 047 
9, 077 
1898 
4 
1899 
96 
2,412 
2, 933 
5, 378 
2, 489 
2, 343 
2,080 
9,081 
2, 814 
20, 365 
5, 963 
14, 891 
17, 360 
6, 960 
7, 472 
3,627 
5,011 
5, 892 
6,911 
8, 307 
9, 647 
4, 374 
129 
1900 
14, 755 
5, 180 
4, 829 
8, 922 
461 
885 
850 
218 
4, 777 
5,410 
1901 
1902 
1903 
121 
1904 
12,911 
10, 469 
19, 103 
34, 977 
47, 986 
19, 648 
24, 414 
31,090 
28,886 
1905 _ 
9, 787 
5, 609 
8,903 
9,640 
8,945 
8, 583 
4, 752 
4, 374 
2, 684 
10, 084 
740 
3, 461 
254 
11,505 
6,770 
3, 343 
1906__. _ 
1907 
190S 
5, 761 
1909 .. 
1910 
256 
83 
1911 
380 
629 
1912 
3, 250 
1 Incomplete before 1915. 
