THE SALMON AND SALMON FISHERIES OF ALASKA. 
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HELM BAY. 
Helm Bay opens into Behm Canal from the soutlieast part of Cleveland Penin- 
sula. A small redfish stream empties into the V-shaped indentation on the northern 
shore of the bay, about midway of its length. At the time of our visit it discharged 
very little water. It has a general northwest-and-southeast direction, is from to 
miles long, with sandy and gravelly bottom, and is about 15 feet wide. 
The lake is 
about 50 feet above 
high water, and 1 
mile long by to f 
mile wide. The 
banks are marshy, 
and the bottom ap- 
pears sandy, slop- 
ing gradually from 
the banks to the 
center. Besides the 
tributary mentioned 
as entering between 
the two barricades, 
the main stream re- 
ceives from the east- 
ward another on the 
right bank, a little 
below the lake out- 
let. This tributary 
forks, each branch 
leading to a small 
fall. 
On the point 
forming the bight is a rude shack in which were stowed some seines, and on the beach 
a flatboat was found. Within the mouth, and about the point reached by high 
water, are the remains of a barrier from which nearly all of the poles have been 
removed, but which would need only very little work to make it effective. A short 
distance higher up, above the mouth of a small tributary, is a barricade of recent 
construction, nearly intact, and lacking only two poles in the center to make it effect- 
ive. Twine netting, badly damaged, was also found here, and was probably used in 
the construction of the barricade. 
The following, the only record obtainable, is taken from the cannery books at 
Loring, where tliese fish are brought by the Indians who conduct the fisheries: 
Sketch of Helm Bay Stream. 
Tear. 
Species. 
Dates. 
Namber. 
1896 
Redfish 
July 13 to 31 
2, 990 
3, 691 
1,931 
6, 000 
700 
1897 
Do 
A iig'. 1 to n 
Cohoes 
Sejjt. 1 to 1 .'i 
Redfish 
.Tiilv 21 to A n£f 1 1 
Cohoes 
Sept. 1 
