ALASKA SALMON INVESTIGATIONS IN. 1900. 
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by means of a large iron barbless hook secured to the end of a stout pole. The 
impaled fish is thrown into a box alongside of the fishermen. At one point of the 
rapids runways have been constructed by piling rocks in parallel lines and confining 
the water to narrow channels. In these runways fyke-net-shaped traps are arranged 
to be raised or lowered to meet the level of different stages of the water. It is said 
the} r do not work very well, but to my eyes it looked as if few fish could pass without 
being trapped. It is probable that short nets are also used in the rapids. 
The lake has an extreme length of 2^ miles in a northwest and southeast direc- 
tion, with an average width of 1 mile. It lies in a basin nearly surrounded by lofty, 
precipitous mountains reaching an altitude of 1,000 to 5,000 feet, and is largely fed 
by cascades and streamlets from the melting snows and glaciers. There is one feeder 
worthy of the name of stream which enters the lake at the extreme northwestern 
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