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BULLETIN OF THE BUREAU OF FISHERIES 
chiefly along the northwest coast of Kodiak Island are intercepted. The only 
exception to this statement is that one small stream at Seven Mile Beach attracts a 
few salmon. Traps have been recently introduced into these waters and gill netting 
and beach seining at Seven Mile Beach began several years ago at the time when 
placer mining on the beach induced a few prospectors to settle there for several 
years. These men varied their activities by fishing in the summer time when the 
run of salmon was at its height, and sold their catches to the cannery at Uyak. 
Similar operations were carried on at Long Beach on the north side of the entrance 
to Uyak Bay where a small stream enters Shelikof Strait. The bulk of the catch 
here came, however, from salmon on their way to larger streams, most likely to 
Karluk River. 
This district includes four bays which in later years have attained some distinction 
as important localities, due to the advent of new canneries into that region. They 
are Spiridon, Terror, Uyak, and Zachar Bays. Little attention was paid to fishery 
possibilities in these waters by the two canneries operating chiefly at Karluk, or by 
the one cannery at Kodiak, until 1922 when two floating canneries appeared in Uyak 
Bay and made surprising catches of pink salmon in Uyak and Zachar Bays. In 1923 
another new cannery was opened in Uganik Bay, and the long-established companies 
operating at Karluk spread their activities into these heretofore neglected places, 
raising the catch to new levels. These increases affected pink salmon largely, al- 
though there were also sizable catches of coho and chum salmon, and a notable 
catch of red salmon in Uyak Bay in the last three years. 
Viekoda Bay and Cape Ugat are set out as separate localities although only the 
record of catches here in 1927 are available. It is probable, however, that future 
catches will be reported from these localities, and for that reason they are here kept 
distinct. 
The intensive fishing operations in most of these localities have been of such recent 
development that it is impossible to draw any detailed conclusions from the available 
data. It is apparent, however, that this expansion of the fishery draws primarily 
upon the species other than red salmon. The red-salmon resources had been fully 
exploited in the past, and it had been many years since every possible source of 
these fish was discovered and fished to, if not beyond, the limit that the supply 
could withstand without depletion. In this recent development of the fishery for 
the cheaper grades of salmon, there have been large increases in the catches of chums, 
cohos, and pinks, but the pink-salmon catch has greatly exceeded the others in all 
localities in this district. A distinct tendency is shown for the pink salmon to run 
more heavily in the even years, although excellent catches were made in 1927 in Uganik 
Bay and in the Uyak Bay (including Spiridon and Zachar Bays.) Pink salmon were 
unquestionably much more abundant in 1927 than in the odd years that immediately 
preceded, and it would appear likely that the odd-year run is building up to approxi- 
mately the magnitude of the even-year runs. 
The only evidence of serious depletion of salmon in any subdivision of this district 
is seen in the red-salmon runs at Little River and at East Arm, Uganik Bay. In 
the former the situation is desperate and merits immediate attention, while at Uganik 
there is hope that by strict observance of present regulations the fishery will survive 
and rebuild itself into its former proportions. 
