CHIGNIK TO RESURRECTION BAY SALMON STATISTICS 683 
Table 21 . — Salmon catch and fishing appliances used in the Marmot Bay district, 190/ t to 1927 — Con. 
Year 
Coho 
Chum 
Pink 
King 
Red 
Beach seines 
Purse seines 
Gill nets 
Traps 
Little Afognak Bay— Con. 
1925 
1, 613 
9, 778 
9, 552 
123 
111 
5,893 
4, 866 
159 
Num- 
ber 
Fath- 
oms 
Num- 
ber 
Fath- 
oms 
Num- 
ber 
Fath- 
oms 
Num- 
ber 
1926 
1 
1,492 
23 
1927... 
80 
5 
Unallocated: 
1923 .. 
90 
1926 __ 
15 
Total: 
1904 
9,842 
36, 341 
31,804 
35, 682 
41, 153 
17,319 
30, 817 
12,312 
12,913 
11,939 
34, 898 
39, 979 
8, 720 
25, 335 
1907 
1, 892 
14, 500 
17, 820 
1908 
1909 . 
1910 
3; 065 
1911 
1912 
2, 516 
5,296 
2, 422 
5, 879 
21, 883 
184, 858 
6 
600 
1913 
3 
300 
2 
100 
1914 
6,853 
18, 864 
10, 896 
29, 752 
38, 832 
7,983 
34, 374 
99 
3 
300 
2 
100 
1915 
12 
3 
450 
1916 
21, 216 
3,052 
2 
4 
400 
1917. 
2 
250 
1918.. _ 
6; 363 
10, 382 
12, 822 
6, 065 
33,415 
1 
100 
1919.. _ 
Ii9 
3 
300 
1920. .. 
11,955 
3 
300 
1921.. _ 
8 
10 
44, 100 
4 
500 
1922 
1 
51,209 
83, 259 
109, 803 
75, 000 
52, 422 
17 
5,401 
32, 760 
20, 931 
16, 005 
5,588 
9 
1,285 
975 
9 
720 
1923.. 
23; 666 
39, 358 
13, 492 
22, 239 
19, 241 
551 
32 
9 
1924 
384 
151 
6 
775 
1925 
1,522 
11 
4 
550 
1926 
10, 820 
8, 198 
25 
7 
945 
1927... 
205, 885 
14 
'389 
6 
680 
Note. — No catch reported in the years omitted from this table. The unallocated catch in 1923 was 123 cohos from Spruce 
Island and 90 reds from Wooded Islet; in 1926, it was 15 chums from Whale Island. 
In our discussion of catch statistics for the Afognak Island district mention was 
made of the pack of two canneries on Afognak Bay in the three years of their opera- 
tion, and it was shown that on the basis of 14 fish per case, the catch of red salmon 
was as follows: 586,768 in 1889, 509,964 in 1890, and 350,000 in 1891. As there ex- 
plained, this entire catch certainly was not taken from Afognak waters, and we 
allocated to Marmot Bay 25 per cent of the totals, which were as follows: 146,692 
in 1889, 127,490 in 1890, and 87,500 in 1891. They are not shown in the table 
because of the unsatisfactory nature of the allocation we have had to make. 
As already explained in another section of this review, Afognak Island with its 
adjacent waters was made a reservation by presidential proclamation in 1892, pri- 
marily for fishery purposes. For 20 years commercial fishing was forbidden, but in 
March, 1912, the reservation was opened to commercial fishing by the natives and 
whites married to native women, who were making their homes on Afognak and 
Spruce Islands at that time. During these intervening years, commercial fishing 
was not entirely discontinued, although by the terms of the proclamation it was 
prohibited. No record of catches made in that period was obtainable, except in 
1909 for Little Afognak Bay and in 1910 for Izhut Bay. It was known, however, 
that the Alaska Commercial Co., through its Kodiak station, operated a saltery at 
Izhut Bay before 1912 and took salmon from other Afognak streams several years 
before the reservation was opened. Except as already noted, these catches were 
either not reported or were shown as coming from other localities. 
The eruption of Katmai Volcano in 1912 affected the runs of salmon in this dis- 
trict, as it did in the districts which include the north and northwest shores of Kodiak 
and Afognak Islands. The catches in that year, and several subsequent seasons, 
are not a true index of the productivity of the streams of this district. Runs were 
erratic and fishing was spasmodic; and to these conditions may be due in large part 
the very noticeable fluctuations in catches at the different localities in that period. 
