808 
BULLETIN OF THE BUREAU OF FISHERIES 
Table 49 . — Pink salmon caught by traps south of Deception Pass — Continued 
Year 
West 
Beach 
Hope 
Island 
Middle 
Point 
and 
Ebeys 
Landing 
Admi- 
ralty Bay 
and Bush 
Point 
Oak Bay 
and Hood 
Canal 
Useless 
Bay and 
Point No 
Point 
Meadow 
Point 
and 
south 
South 
side 
Strait 
of Juan 
de Fuca 
Total 
1917 
1918 . 
1919 .. . 
1920 .. . 
1921 
1922 
1923 
1924 
1925 
1926 
1927 .. . 
1928 
1929 
1930 .. 
1931 .. 
1932 
1933 
1934 
Total 
107 , 709 
5, 989 
12 , 791 
1,412 
76 , 416 
1,158 
62 , 562 
3, 188 
45 , 710 
1, 181 
130, 280 
228 
224 , 968 
590 
249 . 637 
59 
90, 892 
36 
1 , 765 , 619 
56, 783 
751 
11,601 
10 
72, 308 
147 
50 , 790 
33 , 497 
80 
74, 019 
150, 968 
105 
166 , 426 
135 
42, 847 
5 
121, 128 
1,886 
11, 990 
197 
36, 034 
313 
32 , 545 
724 
33, 068 
486 
56 , 265 
109 
118 , 409 
649 
210 , 816 
164 
100 , 532 
25 
273 , 722 
898 
56 , 553 
1, 164 
201 , 839 
434 
422 , 933 
1,062 
161 , 496 
304 
414, 171 
323 
461 , 574 
326 
987 , 625 
312 , 500 
56 
10, 815 
55 
6,869 
1 
75 
29 , 625 
137 
2 , 552 
21 
29, 909 
106 
6, 033 
13 
32 , 274 
14 , 936 
"lsoo' 
10, 357 
10 
13, 859 
1 
6, 311 
46 
6, 180 
37 
4,509 
73 
18, 669 
9, 351 
16 
15 , 409 
15, 420 
8 
12, 999 
" 32 ," 578 ' 
18, 979 
20, 673 
14 
3,955 
37, 998 
838 
1,736 
170 
33, 176 
258 
10, 453 
921 
26, 804 
796 
49, 274 
159 
109, 957 
473 
99, 499 
596 
1,947 
72 
653, 000 
10 , 523 
109, 373 
2 , 967 
452, 047 
2,431 
615, 445 
6 , 079 
321, 495 
2,942 
748, 989 
819 
1 , 109, 626 
2,067 
1 , 763, 084 
1 , 559 
585, 251 
194 
921, 948 
1 , 175, 012 
4 , 551, 460 
89, 978 
245, 711 
121, 871 
399, 933 
9 , 262 , 256 
SEASONAL OCCURRENCE IN NORTHERN AND SOUTHERN DISTRICTS 
The southern pink salmon runs are earlier than the northern. The southern run, 
south of Admiralty Head, Ebeys Landing, Admiralty Bay, and Bush Point areas, 
reaches its peak about August 22, the northern run, areas north of Deception Pass, 
about September 1, making a difference of about 10 days in the modes. By August 
11 about 22 percent of the southern run has passed, but only about 2% percent of the 
northern. By September 8, over 95 percent of the southern run has appeared, as 
against 78 percent of the northern. 
This difference in time of rim of trap-caught pinks in the two districts is good 
evidence of the existence of different populations or groups of populations. It is 
therefore necessary to allow a sufficient number of spawners in each district, as either 
one can doubtless be depleted regardless of the size of the escapement to the other. 
CHANGE IN ABUNDANCE BETWEEN EARLY AND LATE YEARS 
In the earlier years pink salmon were evidently tremendously abundant. Rath- 
bun (1899) says that in 1891 four drag seines operating for the Seattle cannery caught 
275,000 pinks, but this number represented only a small part of the fishery in progress 
that year. At that time, and for a few years thereafter, pinks were canned only in 
Seattle, the output finding a ready sale at a low price in the southern part of the 
United States. 
