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BULLETIN OF THE BUREAU OF FISHERIES 
Afognak Bay was not opened to commercial fishing in 1912, but in 1918 restric- 
tions in respect to cohos were removed, and since then fishing for that species has 
been permitted each year. Small catches of cohos at Katanie in 1920 and 1924 and 
at Markwa Bay in 1922 are included in the Afognak Bay catch for those years. 
Danger Bay and Doctor Bay are producers of pink salmon chiefly, and in both 
localities there is a marked decline in the catch, which appears to be evidence of 
depletion. 
Little Afognak has been a consistently fair producer of coho and red salmon, 
and in two years good catches of pink were made. The catch of red salmon in 1927, 
however, dropped to the lowest point it has reached in the recorded history of the 
fishery, only 159 fish being taken, and it would appear that this run is almost destroyed. 
The situation at Izhut Bay, which is primarily a producer of red salmon, is 
essentially the same. In 18 years, from 1910 to 1927, 4 years were without recorded 
catch and in 3 the catch was less than 600 red salmon, 1926 and 1927 being among 
these. The future of this fishery is uncertain, as it seems possible that the run may 
not survive commercially. 
Kizhuyak Bay has interesting peculiarities, in that prior to 1912 only coho and 
red salmon were reported as coming from that locality. In the 12 years 1911 to 1922 
not a coho was taken and the catch of reds dropped from 23,341 in 1912 to an average 
of only a few hundred in recent years. Another peculiarity about Kizhuyak Bay is 
that no pinks were reported taken there until about 1911. Since then, however, 
pinks have constituted a large percentage of the total catch. What was once a red 
and coho stream has become, therefore, almost exclusively a producer of pink and 
chum salmon. 
New localities of promise in this district are Anton Bay and Camel Rock, both 
of which yielded a fair number of pinks in 1927. 
The district as a whole shows a precarious condition in respect to red salmon, a 
downward trend in production of cohos, and a definite increase in the catch of pinks 
and, to a lesser extent, of chums. Fishing is much more intensive than it was 10 
years ago, owing to the opening of four new canneries in the district, and the fishing 
grounds are, with few exceptions, in quiet harbors, so that the runs of salmon are 
pursued more zealously and successfully than may be considered in keeping with 
their conservation. The fisheries here are quite local in their nature and apparently 
do not draw to any appreciable extent upon passing runs. This feature makes it 
quite probable that such intensive fishing as is now being conducted may be followed 
by depletion. 
EAST COAST OF KODIAK ISLAND DISTRICT 
The east coast of Kodiak Island district embraces the coastal waters of the east, 
south, and west shores of Spruce Island and of the east shore of Kodiak Island from 
Uzinki Narrows on the north to Cape Trinity on the south, including all adjacent 
islands. It has no outstanding fishery such as is found on the west coast of the 
island. It has, however, four localities that may be regarded as fairly important, 
although the runs of salmon are subject to considerable fluctuation without apparent 
relation to the life cycle of the different species. They are Chiniak Bay and its 
arms, Ugak Bay, Iviliuda Bay, and Sitkalidak Strait. 
During the summer of 1888 the steamer Albatross, while engaged in explora- 
tions off the coast of Alaska, visited all the larger bays indenting the eastern shore of 
Kodiak Island and inquiries were made concerning the salmon fisheries in many 
