THE SALMON AND SALMON FISHERIES OF ALASKA. 
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The following gives the only available data for Whale Passage: 
Tear. 
Species . 
Dates. 
Number 
taken. 
1896 
Colioes 
Aug. 18 to Sept. 11 
2, 050 
225, 000 
Humpbacks 
July 12 to Aug. 18 
No record w'as kept of humpbacks in 189Gj as the contract was “ by the case,” 
but the catch was made from August 1 to September 1. No record Avas made of 
cohoes in 1897. 
Salmon Bay is on the northeast side of Prince of Wales Island, about 10 miles 
from Whale Passage. It is a small bay with a lake outlet in the northwest end. The 
stream has a capacity for 20,000 redfish. 
Bed Bay is about 6 miles westward of Salmon Bay. At its head, on the eastern 
side, is a redfish stream with a capacity of from 18,000 to 24,000 fish. 
The following are the available records of Salmon Bay and Bed Bay : 
Tear. 
Salmon Bay. 
Red Bay. | 
Species. 
Dates. 
No. of 
fish. 
Species. 
Dates. 
No. of 
fish. 
1890 
1890 
1897 
Redfish 
Cohoes 
Redfish 
July 1 to 30 
Aug. 1 to 31 
July 1 to 15 
19, 725 
15! 012 
Redfish 
Do 
Do 
July 18 to July 31 
Aug. 1 to Sept. 1 
July 7 to July 29 
16,348 
4, 542 1 
12, 004 
Butz Harbor is situated on the northeast shore of Prince of Wales Island, about 
15 miles north of Tolstoi. At the northwest end of the harbor a stream enters, Avhich 
is reported to yield 00,000 humpbacks, and is fished by the Wrangell cannery when 
the supply of humpbacks from streams nearer their route is short. There are no 
records for this stream. 
OLD VILLAGE. 
In the southern jjart of Zimovia Strait, about 6 miles below Deserted Village, is a 
rocky bay making into Wrangell Island. At the head of this bay is a stream, having 
a capacity of from 15,000 to 20,000 redfish, fished by Wrangell cannery. 
The statistics for 1897 are as follows : 
Species. 
Dates. 
No. 
f 
June 28 to 30 
907 
Redfish < 
.July 3 to 27 
13,181 
1 
Aug. 1 to 6 
3, 050 
Cohoes 
Aug. 6 to 31 
1, 992 
Humpbacks 
July 12 to Aug. 18 
42, 169 
AN AN, BRADFIELD CANAL. 
At the entrance to Bradlield Canal, on the southern shore, in the angle formed 
by the shore line running first east from Point Wards and then north, is a stream 
which is fished by the Wrangell cannery, and which supplies a large number of 
humpbacks. The fish commence to run in the first iiart of July, and the stream is 
reported good for 300,000. In 1897 the Wrangell cannery obtained 375,000 hump- 
backs between July 12 and August 18. 
