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BULLETIN OF THE BUREAU OF FISHERIES 
is no way of accounting for these spasmodic appearances of king salmon, yet this bay 
alone produced 65 per cent of the entire take of kings from the east coast of Kodiak 
Island district. The catch of chums has always been negligible. 
Shearwater Bay, an arm of Kiliuda Bay, produced a small number of pink salmon 
in 1926 and 1927. This locality is shown in the table, but the catches have not been 
included in Kiliuda Bay figures in the table nor in the discussion given below. 
The first recorded catch of salmon at Kiliuda Bay was made in 1900, when 4,900 
red salmon were taken and packed at the Uganik Cannery. Evidently no further 
commercial fishing at Kiliuda Bay was attempted until after the establishment of a 
cannery at Kodiak. Since then, fishing has gone on annually through 1927, the end 
of the period here considered. In the total production of red salmon, it is second only 
to Ugak Bay, whereas it leads in the number of pinks produced by reason of its 
earlier exploitation. Since 1918, Sitkalidak Strait has outdistanced all other local- 
ities in this district in the yield of pinks and chums. That fact may be accounted 
for, in part at least, by the use of traps, while in the other localities the fishing has 
been almost wholly by movable appliances, chiefly senies. 
The trend of the red-salmon fishery at Kiliuda has been downward, as shown 
graphically in Table 25. If the catch of 27 reds in 1927 is a true showing of the 
condition of that fishery, the run is virtually extinct. However, the run has been 
subject to considerable fluctuation in the 16 years for which we have records, and it 
may be that the poor catches of 1925 to 1927 will be followed by another period of 
greater abundance. 
Fishing at Kiliuda Bay, as at most all other localities on the east coast of Kodiak 
Island, until quite recent years at least, had been largely by means of beach seines. 
In 1927, and perhaps in the two years immediately preceding, one trap was operated 
in the bay, but it was not the cause of the depletion of the reds for the catch in these 
three years was very small. Depletion bad resulted before the introduction of traps 
in these waters. 
The larger catches of pinks and chums from 1924 to 1927 is beyond question the 
direct result of trap fishing. Except in 1916 and 1920, the catch had not exceeded 
100,000 pinks until 1924, when more than half a million were caught, with smaller 
yet substantial catches in the next three years. Another singular fact in this connec- 
tion is that these salmon do not run alternately heavy and light in the even and odd 
years. The odd years are as productive as even years at Kiliuda Bay, and in this 
respect resemble the runs of Afognak Island. 
Table 25. — Graphic table of catches of red salmon in Kiliuda Bay 
[Each letter represents 1,000 fish] 
Year 
Catch 
1912. 
1913 
1914. 
1915. 
1917. 
1918. 
1919. 
1920. 
1921. 
1922. 
1923. 
1924. 
1925. 
1926. 
1927. 
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