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have been taken in Kaflia Bay, although the slightly increased catches of 1923 and 
1924 would indicate that the run was building up to some extent. It would seem 
that a careful and continued study of this run would provide observations of great 
interest and value in determining the capacity of a run to rehabilitate itself after 
virtual extermination. 
In the first three years for which we have statistics, Kaflia Bay was fished by 
one operator who packed from 500 to 900 barrels of red salmon a year. Fishing 
appliances consisted of small beach seines and short gill nets. A small crew of natives 
performed all the labor both in the catching and the pickling of the fish. Fishing 
was far from being intensive, thus permitting a good escapement of spawning fish. 
Unfortunately for the Kaflia Bay salmon and the packer as well he extended his 
operations into the Afognak field and devoted most of his time to supervision of 
these ventures instead of giving undivided attention to the older fishery at Kaflia 
Bay, where his interests were respected by all packers in the Kodiak area. As a 
result Uyak Bay fishermen, knowing that the native fishermen at Kaflia, being resi- 
dents of Afognak, had been returned to their homes on account of the eruption and 
that the bay had apparently been abandoned, went to Kaflia with their larger seines 
and literally scooped out the whole school of salmon waiting to ascend the stream. 
This performance was repeated in 1913 and a catch of 84,462 reds resulted, which is 
the largest ever taken in that locality. Five years later not a salmon was caught. 
In 1914 and 1915 the catch was respectively 52 and 94 per cent below the record 
yield of 1913. In the period from 1916 to 1921 less than 1,000 fish were taken in 
any year, while in 1918 and 1920 no salmon were caught. In 1923 there was a 
decided improvement in the run as the catch reached a total of 10,747 reds; this was 
followed by a drop to 9,429 in 1924. Since then Kaflia Bay has been closed to all 
commerical fishing for salmon. 
In 1924 a clam cannery was opened on Kukak Bay and a small pack of salmon 
was made in each year to 1927. The fish were obtained in part from localities listed 
in the table, but mostly from unnamed waters. The catch at Kiukpalik Island in 
1927 was made by a trap operated in connection with a cannery at Kodiak, and those 
in 1919 at Cape Douglas and Douglas Island by gill nets also went to the Kodiak 
cannery. The unallocated catches of this district came from waters between Cape 
Douglas and Wide Bay. 
KODIAK AND AFOGNAK ISLANDS 
ALITAK BAY 
The Alitak Bay district includes all the waters of Alitak Baj^ and its tributaries 
from Cape Alitak on the west to Cape Trinity on the east. It is a compact district 
with a fishery distinctively its own, as far as is now known. The data are presented 
in Table 7 ; those for the years previous to 1904 were taken from Moser and from the 
various reports of Treasury agents. 
RED SALMON 
This fishery was centered for 20 years on Olga Bay red salmon, as in that period 
no other species was taken except cohos, and then only in six seasons. Fishing began 
in 1889, when two canneries, one on Olga Bay and the other on Olga Strait, were 
built and made packs of reds. The latter plant was operated two seasons, and in 
1891 it received a share of the pack of the cannery on Olga Bay and was subsequently 
