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hands. Dolly Varden trout appear a few days before the redfish and remain through- 
out the season. Cut-throat and rainbow trout are seen in the streams, but none have 
been noticed in salt water. Cod and halibut are seen in small numbers around the 
fisheries, and in greater numbers around the canneries, where they are attracted by 
the offal. Flounders are plentiful; shad have never been seen here. 
Sketch showing changes in exit of Ayakulik River 
1897 to 1900. 
ide of Kadiak Island, and empties into the 
s, to the eastward of Ayakulik 
Islet. It is small, but discharges 
a large body of water. Among 
cannerymen it is known as Red 
River, but this name should not 
be confounded with the Red River 
which lies 6 miles to the north- 
ward according to Coast Survey 
chart No. 8500. 
The locality has I >een fished by 
the canneries on Kadiak Island for 
many years, but it has not been a 
favorite place, as the seining must 
be done on the open coast and can 
only be carried on during very 
favorable conditions. The seines 
are hauled in the surf and the fish 
thrown out on the sandy beach, 
then transported in carriers to 
boats in the river and carried to 
the waiting steamers outside. 
These fish are covered with sand 
and difficult to thoroughly cleanse 
on that account. 
The following information 
relating to the river was fur- 
nished by the superintendent of 
the Olga Bay cannery: In 1897 
and for several years prior to 
that time the stream, after leav- 
ing the ravine in the bluffs, 
turned sharply to the southward 
and skirted the line of bluffs for Id miles, behind a broad spit of sand and shingle, 
before entering the sea. In 1898 the channel broke across the spit about halfway 
between the 1897 exit and the river mouth proper. In 1899 it ran straight out over 
the shingle to sea. This year the stream bends sharply to the northward, flowing 
along the base of the bluffs, and discharges about one-half mile above the ravine 
behind Ayakulik Islet. The fresh-water discharge now passes to the northward 
toward Seal Cape, and the salmon have been schooling in great numbers this year 
between the island and the main shore. They come from the northward, and it is 
Ayakulik River is on the western s 
sea midway between Low Cape and the Seal Rock; 
