FISHERIES OF ALASKA IN 1909. 
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dimensions were 205.9 feet length; breadth, 40 feet; and depth, 24 
feet. She had been engaged in transporting cannery supplies for 
a number of years, and was owned by Capt. Henry Nelson, of San 
Francisco. As a result of this wreck the cannery of the Alaska 
Salmon Company was not operated this season, the time being too 
short to send up a new outfit. 
The steam tug Uyak , of 12 net tons, which was employed in 
carrying salmon from the seines on Karluk Spit to the Uyak Bay 
cannery of the Northwestern Fisheries Company, was lost at Karluk 
during a terrific northeast gale on September 19. The crew narrowly 
escaped. The Uyak was built at Alameda, Cal., in 1901, and be- 
longed to the company operating her. 
KING SALMON FISHERY.® 
King salmon began to appear in the lower part of southeast Alaska 
in March, but it was not until about the middle of April that they 
were found in any abundance. From then until about the middle 
of June, when fishing ceased in most places for about six weeks, the 
catch was very good. In May reports from Portland Canal were to 
the effect that a large run of kings had appeared there, but no effort 
was made to go for them. In July the kings were found to be 
numerous in Port Malmesbury, just inside Cape Decision, in Teben- 
kof Bay and in Gedney Harbor in Chatham Strait, on the west shore 
of Kuiu Island. 
It is reported, with what truth we do not know, that king salmon 
are found in the deep pools of the Stikine River, also near the Hot 
Springs in the same river, in winter, and that the Indians cut holes 
in the ice and spear the fish. 
The sportsmen of Ketchikan are agreed that the white-meated king 
salmon are gamier than the red-meated ones. The latter generally 
break water once and then go to the bottom, while the former remain 
near the surface and fight it out, breaking water five or six times. 
One of the officers of the revenue cutter Thetis , on October 8, 1906, 
caught with hook and line, using artificial bait (Wilson spinner, 
single hook), from the wharf at Unalaska, four king salmon which 
weighed 29, 24, 22, and 20 pounds, respectively. They were all in 
fine condition and had been feeding on herring. 
A white-meated female king salmon, caught with a trolling line 
and landed at Ketchikan about the middle of April, weighed 69j 
pounds, and measured 4 feet 6 inches from tip of snout to tip of tail 
and 18 inches across the widest part of the middle. 
a A detailed description of this fishery appears in the 1908 report of the 
salmon agents, Bureau of Fisheries Document No. 645. 
