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BULLETIN OF THE UNITED STATES FISH COMMISSION. 
good season expects to obtain from the Stikiuefrom 4,000 to 8,000 king salmon, 30,000 
redflsh, and 30,000 cohoes. It is probable that few salmon go to tlie headwaters, but 
they enter the numerous lower tributaries. 
Fishing for king salmon commences about May 15, or as much earlier as the ice may 
permit^ and continues until the latter jiart of June, when the redflsh begin to run ; the 
Ashing gear is then changed. It is the general belief in Alaska that king salmon 
will run only in the streams carrying glacial water. Of tlie king salmon taken here, 
about one in six has white meat, the same ratio being preserved throughout the 
fishing season. 
The only available record for the Stikine is for 1897, and is as follows: 
Species. 
Dates. 
Number. 
!May 15 to ‘June 25 
4, C80 
KudSsh 
J uDe 25 to July 30 
21, 20G 1 
Cohoes 
Aug. 15 to Sept. 15 
19, 722 
Humpbacks 
.Tilly to Aug. 18 
20, 394 
The limited time permitted the examination of only one stream fished for this 
cannery, Kah-Sheets, and the others are referred to briefly with such data as could 
be obtained. Eed Bay, Salmon Bay, Lake Bay, and Whale Passage are localities 
claimed and fished by Mr. Thomas McCauley. Several years ago there was a saltery 
at each of these fisheries, but they are now consolidated into one, which is located on 
Whale Passage. The catch from the streams in these places is sold by contract to 
the Wrangell cannery. 
PRINCE OF WALES ISLAND, NORTHEAST SIDE. 
In this region ai'e located Lake Bay, Whale Passage, Salmon Bay, Red Bay, and 
Ratz Harbor. Lake Bay is situated on the northeast side of Prince of Wales Island 
(see Chart A) on the passage inside of Stevenson Island. The axiproaches are all foul 
and the bay inaccessible for a large vessel. The stream is known as a coho stream, 
and the run is the earliest in southeast Alaska, but the fish are small. It is said to 
have a capacity of from 50,000 to 60,000 cohoes and 5,000 to 10,000 redfish. There 
are, however, no records for redflsh. 
The following records of cohoes from Lake Bay were obtained : 
189G. 
1897. 
Dates. 
Number 
taken . 
Dates. 
Number 
taken. 
July 1 to July 31 
1 Tti 
23, 004 
25, 629 
9, 452 
58, 145 
July 7 to ,Tuly 31 
Aug. 2 to Aug, 31 
8,353 
21, 589 
17, 642 
47, 584 
f Soirt. iTo Sept. 16 
Total 
Sept. 2 to Sept. 12 
Total 
Whale Passage is about 5 miles to the westward of Lake Bay. The stream, 
which is essentially a humxiback stream, is in the northwest arm of the iiassage. 
The saltery, ojicrated here by Mr. Thomas McCauley, utilizes the fish that can not 
be handled at Wrangell. The stream is said to have a capacity of 200,000 hump- 
backs and from 2,000 to 3,000 cohoes. 1,400 half-barrels of humpback bellies were 
salted in 1897. 
