The Kusko Times

The drought in southeastern Alaska may have bad results not expected by persons who fail to take into consideration the effect of such drouths upon the salmon run. A number of years ago in the Karluk region there was an extraordinarily large escapement but to the astonishment of most people, on the return of the cycle very few salmon appeared. It was then remembered that the year of the large escapement was also a year of severe and prolonged drouth in that district and hence the scientists in the Bureau of Fisheries concluded that the drouth, in lowering the lakes and drying up the streams, prevented the spawn from hatching and thus led to the very small run on the return of the cycle.
It is feared that the same thing may happen in southeastern Alaska two years hence with respect to the pink salmon.