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BULLETIN OF THE BUREAU OF FISHERIES 
Table 2. — Returns from pink salmon tagged in Montague Strait 
Locality of recapture 
Montague Island: 
No details 
McLeod Harbor. 
Hanning Bay 
Sandy Point 
Rocky Point 
Glacier Bay 
Port Chalmers... 
Latouehe Passage 
Whale Bay 
Knight Island: 
Hogan Bay 
Drier Bay 
Squire Island 
Dangerous Passage: 
No details 
Chenega Island. . 
Granite Bay Point.. 
Port Nellie Juan 
Port Wells 
Eaglek Bay 
Point Pellew 
Siwash Bay 
Wells Bay 
Num- 
ber 
Locality and date of 
tagging 
Point 
Bryant, 
July 4 
Time 
in 
days 
1-25 
6-8 
1-28 
13-24 
12 
23 
19 
13 
15-29 
27 
19-22 
19 
Hanning 
Bay, July 13 
Num- 
ber 
Time 
in 
days 
13 
3 
4 
9 
4 
5 
3-19 
15-34 
8 
4-9 
9 
8-15 
2 
3-14 
13 
6-14 
2 
9-13 
3 
3 
18-20 
13-19 
1 
13 
Total 
num- 
ber 
recap- 
tured 
Locality and date of 
tagging 
Locality of recapture 
Num- 
ber 
Port Etches 
Seven Sisters... 
Johnstone Point 
Anderson Bay 
Makaka Point 
Orca Inlet 
Simpson Bay 
Knowles Head 
Porcupine Point 
Port Fidalgo 
Bidarka Point 
Bligh Island, south end 
Port Valdez: 
Jack Bay 
Sawmill Bay 
Valdez Bay 
Johnson’s Cove 
Prince William Sound, east 
shore 
Cook Inlet 
Total 
Per cent returned. 
Point 
Bryant, 
July 4 
>10 
1 
84 
29.9 
Time 
in 
days 
7-18 
7-19 
5-14 
6-7 
4 
4-15 
5 
6 
4 
5-21 
20-23 
23 
19 
Hanning 
Bay, July 13 
Num- 
ber 
43.5 
Total 
num- 
ber 
recap- 
tured 
Time 
in 
days 
7-12 
6 
20 
18 
4-13 
14 
13- 21 
14- 21 
20 
171 
35.6 
1 Date of capture not reported. 
Bed salmon . — Nine red salmon were tagged here and one was recaptured in Simp- 
son Bay 29 days later. 
RETURNS FROM EXPERIMENTS AT MONTAGUE POINT 
Pink salmon .- — The data secured from the tagging of pink salmon at Montague 
Point are given in Table 3 and are graphically shown in Figure 3. Three experiments 
were conducted here in which 749 pinks and 1 chum salmon were tagged. The latter 
was not recaptured. Of the pink salmon, 271 (36.1 per cent) were recaptured in all 
parts of Prince William Sound. The dispersion of the fish tagged on July 5 and on 
July 13 was almost identical. However, those tagged on July 31 were, with few 
exceptions, taken within a comparatively short time in the immediate vicinity of 
Montague Point. This may have been due to the fact that commercial fishery 
operations ceased within a week after the tagging, but the taking of 28.3 per cent of 
the recaptures in Rocky Bay by purse seines would indicate that the fish were bound 
for near-b}' spawning grounds. 
The fish tagged here are doubtlessly derived, in part, from the fish entering Prince 
William Sound through Montague Strait. Others may have entered through Hinch- 
inbrook Entrance but, as seen from the experiment at Port Etches, they are not asso- 
ciated with the fish caught along the east shore of Hinchinbrook Entrance. It is 
probable that the salmon liberated at Montague Point had entered the sound through 
both entrances and were a mixed lot. This would account for the wide scattering of 
fish from this point, for had all of them been derived from fish entering through 
Montague Strait only an extensive northerly and easterly migration would have been 
expected. 
