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second prominent point on the starboard hand leads to the strait where Old Harbor 
is located, and off which lies the Bay of Three Saints and Lisiansky Bay. There is 
bold water in the strait, which is free from hidden dangers except near the land. 
Passing Old Harbor there is a narrow tortuous channel into Sitkalidak Strait through 
which small vessels have passed, but a stranger should not attempt it with a vessel 
drawing more than 8 feet.” 
PORT HOBRON, SITKALIDAK ISLAND, 
Fishing station. — While at Old Harbor a call was received from Mr. Ivan Petrofif, 
manager of tlie Alaska Coast Fishery Company’s station, recently established at Port 
Hobron sopie 10 or 12 miles to the northward and eastward of Old Harbor. Subse- 
quently a party from the Albatross visited the station and found it located in a snug 
harbor on the north side of Sitkalidak Island, in the second deep bay coming from sea- 
ward. 
The quarters, mess-room, store room, and kitchen are under one roof, and the cur- 
ing house is at the water’s edge, where boats or barges can load and discharge at half- 
tide. It is supplied with running water from a mountain stream, and everything was 
scrupulously clean and well arranged. A cooper shop, stable, and store house are 
conveniently located, and in the harbor were several dories, barges, a fine schooner, 
and a steam-launch. This is the first season the station has been in operation, and 
they have thus far confined themselves to taking and salting salmon, but theyfinteud 
starting a cannery eventually. 
The fish are caught chiefly in a lake opposite the station, and about IJ miles from 
salt water, in which the salmon enter in incredible numbers to spawn. Eighteen 
white men and a few Indians are employed to do the fishing. The fish are transported 
over a horse-railway to the beach, where they are transferred to barges or dories which 
deliver them at the curing house. Four hundred barrels of salmon had been secured 
during the preceding three weeks. 
The visit to the station was made between the runs of salmon, and the entire force, 
except the coopers, was engaged in cutting and curing hay for the horses used there. 
The location seems to be well chosen, not only for salmon fishing but also for cod and 
halibut. 
In 1883 Mr. Petrofif built a fishing stand close to the Indian village at Old Harbor, 
where for a time large quantities of cod were cured and shipped to San Francisco. 
ST. PAUL, KADIAK. 
Collecting in the harbor. — During the week’s stay at St. Paul or Kadiak village, 
hand-line fishing, seining, boat dredging, and shore collecting were carried on con- 
tinuously. Many flounders (Lepidopsetta bilineata) were taken with the hand lines, 
but very little else, excepting a few “ rock trout” (Hexagrgmmus)^ and dogfish {Squalus 
acanthias). Memilepidotus trachurus, a species of flounder, not met with elsewhere 
during tbe cruise, was also obtained in this manner. Scarcely anything but salmon 
and flounders were secured by seining. Boat dredging in the bays near the village, 
and thence outward to a point 4 miles distant from the village, gave excellent results, 
ai d disclosed a rich bottom with many species of marine invertebrates different from 
those discovered on the outer grounds. The groups of Crustacea, mollusks, echino- 
