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counts of salmon escaping into Karluk River were made. Counting began in 1921 
and has been carried on each year since. Table 16 shows the commercial catch, 
known escapement, and known run as determined by a combination of catch and 
escapement. The catch here considered includes only that made at Karluk beach. 
Table 16. — Catch and, escapement of red salmon at Karluk from 1921 to 1927 
Year 
Commercial 
catch 
Known 
escapement 
Total known 
run 
Year 
Commercial 
catch 
Known 
escapement 
Total 
known run 
1921 
1, 631, 247 
656, 092 
662, 140 
742, 489 
1, 325, 654 
384, 683 
694, 579 
775, 705 
2, 950, 901 
1, 040, 775 
1, 356, 719 
1, 518, 194 
1925 
1, 136, 508 
1, 825, 486 
398, 726 
1, 620, 927 
2, 533, 412 
872, 538 
2, 757, 435 
4, 358, 898 
1, 271, 264 
1922 
1926 
1923 
1924 
1927 
OTHER SPECIES 
King salmon have been taken at Karluk in every year since 1898; but since 1910 
the catch has been small, falling below 1,000 in 12 seasons. The largest catch of 
kings at Karluk occurred in 1900 when 4,838 were taken, the smallest in 1926 when 
only 88 were caught. The catch statistics as shown in Table 14 indicate that the 
run of kings is unimportant, but by taking into consideration the number passing 
through the weir each season since 1921, it will be observed that the run attained 
significant proportions, as shown by Table 17. 
Table 17. — Karluk king salmon catch, 1922 to 1927 1 
Year 
Catch 
Escape- 
ment 
Total 
Percent- 
age of run 
caught 
Per cent- 
age of run 
escaping 
Year 
Catch 
Escape- 
ment 
Total 
Percent- 
age of run 
caught 
Percent- 
age of run 
escaping 
1922 
661 
1, 776 
294 
9, 572 
14, 442 
10, 233 
16, 218 
6. 27 
10.95 
93. 73 
89.05 
1925 
1,077 
88 
1,383 
13, 379 
5, 917 
10, 343 
14, 456 
6, 005 
11, 726 
7.45 
1.47 
11.80 
92. 55 
98. 53 
88.20 
1923 
1926 
1924. 
1927 . 
1 No count was reported in 1924. 
Kings run at Karluk early in the season and, presumably, mingle freely with the 
red salmon. They are caught in seines operated on the Karluk beaches just as all 
other salmon are taken at that fishery, yet the average escapement in each of the 
five years shown in Table 17 was approximately 90 per cent of the run. No explana- 
tion of this surprising situation is known. There would seem to be no reason why 
the present catch of this species should be materially lower than in the years preceding 
1910. 
Cohos were first reported from Karluk in 1897. It is not improbable that they 
were taken at a much earlier date but were not utilized, or were not reported separately 
until several years after the industry was well established there. After the peak 
production of 1903, 1904, and 1905, when approximately 100,000 were taken each 
year, the catch dropped to an average yield of about 20,000 for the last 20 years. 
The catch from 1906 to 1927 was remarkably uniform, there being only one exception- 
ally good year and one abnormally poor year in that period. There is no distinctive 
coho fishery at Karluk, the entire catch of cohos being strictly incidental to fishing 
for red salmon. It is probable that the cohos run more abundantly after the cessa- 
tion of fishing at the close of the red-salmon season, so that the commercial catch as 
given in Table 14 forms a relatively small percentage of the total run. At any rate, 
