CHIGNIK TO RESURRECTION BAY SALMON STATISTICS 
665 
According to Moser 9 this was the number of Karluk red salmon required to pack a 
case in 1895 and all earlier years, and it is still about the same. In 1896, for reasons 
unknown, Moser computed the catch at 12 fish per case, and thus obtained a catch 
of 2,483,976, in addition to which 155,000 reds were transferred to canneries at 
Chignik. For the first time salmon were reported from Uganik, “Ayagulik” (prob- 
ably intended for Ayakulik or Red River), Ivaguayak, and Little River, but the 
estimated catches at these places were excluded from the Karluk catch. It is 
believed, however, that in several years before and after 1896, Karluk catch statistics 
were slightly in error due to the inclusion of fish taken at other localities, but no 
attempt has been made to correct this, except as indicated in the footnotes following 
Table 14. Catches by species were reported for the first time in 1897. No allocation 
to streams other than Karluk River was shown, although one company listed Little 
River, Uganik, Red River, and “Ayagulik” besides Karluk, but the catch at each 
place was not shown separately. In this year, Kutchin 10 reports that the catch of 
red salmon by the three canneries at Karluk and one at Uganik was 1,865,731. The 
Uganik cannery packed 2,113 cases. The Uganik fish are much larger than those 
at Karluk, running about 10 to the case. It is assumed, therefore, that approximately 
21,000 reds were caught in Uganik Bay, and the Karluk catch as given by Kutchin 
has been reduced by that number. The first catch of cohos ever reported from 
Karluk was also made in that year. From 1897 to 1903, both years inclusive, 
Ivutchin’s catch statistics have been used and wherever salmon from other designated 
localities were included as Karluk fish, adjustment has been made by allocating a 
part of the catch to those streams. Such allocations have been based on a knowledge 
of local conditions, and while they are open to criticism on that account they are 
believed to be reasonably accurate. 
Beginning in 1904 and continuing through 1927, data were obtained from 
statistical reports of the operators filed in Washington. In this period, then, serious 
error in catch statistics, while not entirely removed, is decidedly improbable. The 
history of this district is particularly interesting, and marks the rise and fall of one of 
the world’s greatest red-salmon fisheries. 
The data are presented in Table 14. 
» The Salmon and the Salmon Fisheries of Alaska, by Jefferson F. Moser. Bulletin of the U. S. Fish Commission for 1898, 
Vol. XVIII, pp. 1-178. Washington, 1899. 
i° Report on the Salmon Fisheries of Alaska, 1897, by Howard M. Kutchin. Treasury Department, Document No. 2010, 
division of special agents, Washington, 1898. 
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