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Two bedroom home, 132 loth
§t* near school and town*
To tal $ to, 500, #1500 down*
jM units furnished, $415 Month
income, Total $10, £00, $1200
down*
4 room cabin, has wafer, lot
loo x too, price 300, $300
down* Close in*
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For information send a post
card with your name and ad
dress to: RA-Y Wc FLL1S, BRU
NER CORPi ... Representative,
317 B St*,- Anchorage, Alaska*
Watch the News for an an
nouncement for my next visit
to Homer* , .
LOST: Small black and white
Boston bull dog, short tail
4 white feet and a white
breast* She disappeared last
Thursday, if someone has run
over her with a car ' we‘would
like to know although no mal
ice . will be held against them*
for an accide-nt* If anyone -
knows the whereabouts of the
dog or what happened to it';
please notify Jim and Olivia..
Sherry*
FOR SALE OR TRADE: Or.* Model
§ A-C tractor. Good condition
four new tires, ' hydraulic
lift pump, power take-off,
pteel wheels, srtow plow and
two wheel steel trailer, Will
trade for 4-wheel drive Jeep
in good condition or gasoline
driven portable arc welder.
See or write L• M, McDonell/
Se Idovia,_.
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LEAVING FOR SOUTH
Nr, and Mrs, Glenn D, Johns
ton and children plan to leave
Homer Monday for Lousiana
where they will make their
home,
The Johnstons will be re
placed 'in the local Church of
Christ by Mr, and Mrs, Ray
Green of Houston, Texas who
are expected to arrive in Ho
mer any day,
HOMER VISITORS
Mr, and Mrs, Ray Ellis of
Anchorage were Homer visitors
this week, Mr, Ellis is the
representative of the Bruner
Corporation, manufacturers of
water treatment equipment,
LETTER TO THE EDITOR
The following letter con
cerning salmon fishing was re
ceived .recently by the News*
The writer, Leroy Duncan of
Homer, i s an' experienced fiSh
erman and has given consider
able time to the study■of ‘the
problems facing the industry.
Editorj Homer News;
Is the Salmon industry of
Alaska about to be liquidated?
Let us examine the policy
of Jthie :Fish and Wildlife Ser
vice for a posiible pnswer*
For over forty years the
Fish and Wildlife Service has
followed a policy of penaliz
ing the fisherman after each
decrease in the salmon pack\
They have closed areas to
fishing, shortened the fish
ing week, cut fishing gear,
and done many other things ■in
order to get an escapement nec
essary to normal reproduction
each year, and while they get
this escapement each' year the
pack continues to decrease,
The ref ore as the escapement is
adequate, and the return on
the escapement is"less than
the preceeding cycle, it
stands to reason that some
thing happens to the salmon
in that period of time be
tween escapement 4 and the re
turn of that cycle, let us
investigate,
As it isAmpossible to fol
low the salmon in their mi
grations, we must check those
factors that are known, and
could have a bearing on the
decrease of the salmon.
First when the salmon go up
the streams to spawn, they
become the prey of eagles,
bears, seagulls, ducks and all'
kinds of trout, to name a few
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of the predators.
The black bear are espec
ially destructive, and the
trout not only eat the eggs,
but also feed off the young
salmon until what are left
return to the ocean,
From now cn I shall refer
to Fish and. Midlife Bulletin
No, 339 and to such history
of Alaska as is necessary to
make further investigation.
This Bulletin do, 339 refers
to the period between 1933
and 1939, this should be kept
in mind, as between 1939 and
1934 great changes have taken
place in our marine life. The
fur seal herd has increased
from t *500,000 to 3,500,000
in 1933, and the herring which,
was the favorite food (j8,6
percent) have decreased to the
point where the Fish and Wild
life Service have practically
stopped their exploitation«
This Bulletin also shows
that salmonwas the second
favored food (6» 7 percent)«
If we use the figures com
piled by the Fisk and Wild
life Service in Bulletin No•
339, - ne find this fur seal
herd of 3, 500, 000 in 1933 will
consume more food in one year
than the entire City of New
fork in the same period of
time, And on the basis of
6.7 percent of their diet
being salmon, this would
amount to 4,000,000 cases of
salmon, or enough cases to
make a -freignt train forty
milt.es long, tooo cases to the
car, and this does not tell
the full story, . As I have
pointed out this Bulletin is
fifteen years old, And our
herring have decreased to a
fraction of their number in
1939 when they furnished y8, 6
percent of the fur seal diet•
The salmon- that was second in
preference in 1939 have with
out a doubt become first in
,importance■ as a food for these
same fur seals«
However the fur seal is not
the only predator, there are
at least 300,000 hair seals
and sea lions in Alaskan wat
ers, Estimates of the sea
lions, Kodiak Island west
through the Aleutians, run as
---- "... ' 'T
, high as 700,000, It is re
ported the Fish and Wildlife
^Service have examined the
stomach content of s«ia lions
in the Aleutians this past
year, and have found twelve
to twenty salmon in each stom
ach* If this report is cor
rect , the sea lions would de
stroy not less than 10,000,000
cases of salmon each year, a
conservative estimate*
The B^Uiga whale is report
ed to be one of the most de
structive of all those who
prey on the salmon• It is
impossible to detervAne their
number or the damage they do*
As the question will nat
urally arise, why did not the
predators destroy the salmon
centun es ago, if the fore
going is correct? ■ In order
to answer this I will refer
to early Alaskan history,
(The second portion of
this letter will appear in
next week 's issue of the Hews, )
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