THE SALMON AND SALMON FISHERIES OF ALASKA. 
05 
This lake is about a mile long by one-fourth of a mile wide, with a depth of from 
6 to 18 fathoms, with a muddy bottom. The banks around the western and southern 
shores are rocky. On the northern shore three small draining streams, only a few feet 
in width, enter. They run from the mountain for about one-fourth of a mile to the lake 
over a comparatively level bottom of sand and gravel. They flow into bights where 
it is marshy or grassy, and at this point the lake is shallow along the shore, with mud 
and sandy bottom. A large stream enters the southern side near the eastern end, 
where there is a large grassy Hat. At the eastern end, near the northern shore, is the 
mouth of Naha Stream, the out- 
let of the interior lake system. 
Around the mouth is a grassy 
flat, and off it the water is rather 
shallow, with a sand and gravel 
bottom. It is a beautiful stream 
at this point, about 200 feet wide 
and 2 feet deep. It preserves 
its width for about half a mile, 
when the banks contract, forc- 
ing the water between two rocky 
points about 40 feet apart, and 
200 feet above this point are 
falls about 75 feet wide and 8 
feet high. Half the height is a 
cascade; the rest is a straight 
fall on one 
side, while 
upon the 
other it is 
partly broken. The greater part of the water 
flows over the straight fall. The general course 
of the stream from the mouth to the falls is 
east-northeast, turning more to the northward 
at the falls, and then to the eastward. Above 
the falls the stream is about 125 feet wide, flow- 
ing between rocky banks over a sandy and 
gravelly bottom. The water is discolored. 
This salmon stream, one of the best in 
southeast Alaska, has suffered through the use 
of barricades. Until 1893 it was so solidly closed that it did not seem possible for a 
fish to pass through. That year the barricade was removed, and the stream has 
remained open ever since. Whether the stream was ever barricaded at the mouth of 
the outlet, near the eastern end of the lake, could not be ascertained. The barricade 
of 1893 and the earlier ones were placed at the head of the bay, where it contracts. 
A trap had been driven here almost entirely across the bay, but as few fish were taken 
more iiiles were driven, and, it is said, a close-mesh net was stretched across the stream 
so effectually that not a salmon could pass. 
Fishing is carried on entirely with drag seines, one crew fishing in Nalia Bay below 
the tidal rapids, and another in the first lake above the rapids. 
Nalia Bay and Lakes. 
