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BULLETIN OP THE UNITED STATES FISH COMMISSION. 
The following subjects were photographed in Alitak Bay : j 
The Kodiak Packing Company’s cannery and the fleet in the harbor; Alitak Nar- j 
rows from Snug Harbor and from the north end ; the entrance to Olga Bay and the ( 
mountains of Olga Bay; the Salmon Eiver near the Arctic Packing Company’s can- ' 
nery ; a salmon creek ; a group of natives ; and a view looking out of Snug Harbor. | 
UYAK BAY, 
(Plates Lxx-Lxxi and lxxxiii.) 
Although a large and beautiful body of water, affording some fine harbors for the 
vessels of the salmon fleet, to which they run for shelter from the severe storms that 
drive them away from the open roadstead of Karluk, Uyak Bay has no streams con- 
taining salmon which are at present commercially valuable except humpbacks. A 
cannery belonging to the Arctic Packing Company is located in a cove forming part of 
the west arm of this bay. Its supply of fish, however, is obtained from Karluk, 17J 
miles distant. Numerous streams of small size empty into the bay from the surround- 
ing mountains. Some of these make their exit into Uyak Bay over an elevation which 
prevents the salmon from entering their mouths, but there are many streams abounding 
in humpback salmon, which in the middle of August were spawning or spent. Certain 
portions of the shores are suitable for seining, other portions are made up of bowlders 
and sharp stones, many of them incrusted with barnacles, which make it difficult to 
haul the seine. Alder, cottonwood, and several species of willows are found on these 
shores, and particularly around the portion called Larsen’s Bay or Cove. 
Flowering plants and ferns occur also in great profusion. 
Around the wharves of the Arctic Packing Company cod, tomcod, herring, and 
other fishes were very abundant, attracted by the refuse from the salmon splitting- 
tables. 
Across the mountain from the Arctic Packing Company’s cannery, a lake is found 
which is full of fish, probably dolly varden trout, according to the testimony of Mr. 
Holmes. 
One of the most famous of the humpback salmon streams of this bay is the 
one known as Alexander’s Creek, upon which Mr. Booth has made the following 
notes : 
“Directly south of and opposite to the Arctic Packing Company’s cannery, in Lar- 
sen’s Cove, Uyak Bay, is a small creek which at the time of our visit was said to con- 
tain more gorbuscha than any other known salmon stream in Alaska. This creek is a 
very short and narrow stream, rising in the high hills on the southern side of tbe bay 
and plunging down for about a mile over a very steep slate bed until it reaches the 
low land on the shores, where it widens out to about 25 feet wide, about a hmidred 
yards from the beach. There was barely enough water to allow the gorbuscha to 
swim, especially at low tide, when, owing to the very gradually sloping beach and 
great rise and fall of the tides, the creek separates into several channels. At low 
tide the sea recedes about 300 yards. Its average rise and fall is about 18 feet. 
“Several other small creeks empty into Lnrsen’s Bay on its northern side, but 
owing to the high black slate bluffs, which almost everywhere line the shore, no fish 
can enter them.” 
