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FISHERIES OF ALASKA IK 1909. 
Mr. H. C. Bergman reports that there was delivered to his mild- 
curing plant at Egg Island, near Klawak, a white-moated female 
king salmon which weighed, without the head, 101 pounds. 
TROLLING FOR SALMON OTHER THAN KINGS. 
Other species of salmon, in addition to the king, are found to take 
the trolling hook. For several weeks in July tr oilers in Union Bay, 
in southeast Alaska, caught a number of cohos and humpbacks 
while trolling for kings. The humpbacks were caught mainly with 
a spoon, no bait being used. Most of them appeared to have been 
feeding on needlefish and herring, according to the cutter who 
dressed them. A few red salmon are reported to have been caught on 
the trolling line by fishermen operating for king salmon in the 
neighborhood of Mary Island, near Dixon Entrance. Several fish- 
ermen report having in previous years frequently taken dog salmon 
on a hook in the bays along Chatham Strait. 
SALMON IN seal’s STOMACH. 
This spring the assistant fur-seal agent on St. George Island, 
upon opening the stomach of a seal killed on the island, found it 
full of salmon. The fact is w T orthy of note as being the first instance, 
at least in recent years, where the stomach of a seal killed on the 
islands has been found to contain food of any kind, owing to the 
seals’ habit of digesting their food before coming ashore. 
MARKED SALMON. 
A cutter for the Pacific Coast and Norway Packing Company at 
Petersburg reported a king salmon this season which had a crescent- 
shaped piece cut out of- the lower lobe of the tail. 
During J uly and early in August an Indian fishing on Karta Bay, 
Prince of Wales Island, caught about IT red salmon from which 
the adipose fin had been removed. He reported this to the superin- 
tendent of the cannery at Loring, who immediately sent out orders 
to his scowmen to keep such fish separate from the general lot, and 
as a result 5 more were brought to Loring previous to August 5. 
One of the present authors saw 2 of the marked fish on the latter 
date, one of which measured 26 inches and the other 29 inches in 
length. 
At Yes Lake hatchery 4 adult redfish lacking both ventral fins were 
taken in the 1909 spawning run. These are returns from the 
Chamberlain marks of 1903, referred to in previous reports, and this 
is the fourth successive season during which a return has been re- 
ceived from this marking experiment. No return was obtained this 
