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OUR HARBOR.
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We have, in many issues of THE
ALASKAN, boosted Petersburg har
bor. It didn’t need this patting on
the back in any other way than one
of publicity for, as Nature made it,
it lies a water body sea proof in
any blow, it i3 calm in gales from
any compass point. It in unruffled
in winter and summer alike. But
the city water front of the harbor
DOES call for attention and our
local official and commerce bodies
have been, and are, doing what they
can to better conditions along the
city's harbor line. The aim is to
get aid, financial and otherwise, to
deepen the big steamship landings
and, thusly, to make it easier for the
larger craft to maneuver.
Still, the city needs much more
than a mere dredging operation a
long its wharfage. We don’t know
of course how large Petersburg will
be, even insidej of the next ten years.
If location, topography, natural ad
vantages and still water anchorage
amount to anything in city building,
Petersburg should be the metropolis
of Alaska inside the coming five
years. We have as large and as
rich a region tributary to our har
bor as has any Alaska port. We
have building areas unequalled, we
have a long beach line for any kind
of w'ater front use, we have all that
goes to make big town construction.
Knowing all of this why not, be
fore going farther in our endeavor
for water front dredging strive, in
some way, to improve the harbor
facing. Why not have our docks
more in line and build them longer
fore and aft, with the channel? As
the dock3 are now', one extends out
so far with a face at this angle, an
other farther out faces at that
angle, another, with still greater
extension faces its peculiar slant.
There is nothing approaching an
invariable direction, nothing handy
or convenient, nothing in harmony.
Our water front, today, is a zig
zag on piling and rather a fair il
lustration of cultus engineering.
We want the big boats, all of ’em,
to stop here going and coming, and
they’ll do it if our docks are easy
to tie up to and get away from.
The eity’3 welfare depends a whole
lot on the steamers. We
have no railroads, higw'ays, bus
lines nor tramways. We must de
pend on the ins and outs by water,
so w’hy not make our harbor line
straight and face our docks to it.
To dredge along a straight whari
frontage is easy. To land at a
long, straight dock is quite simple.
Outside of appearances and self sat
isfaction, a straight harbor line,
docks harmonizing in extension and
wider dock approaches are better
advertisements than tons of printers’
ink, windy propaganda or the broad
castings of commercial organiza
tions. Let’s fix up our front avenue
and ship highway before the dredge
comes.
HOOVER AND HATCHERIES
There is a magazine article head
ed: “In Praise of Izaak Walton”
and it is written by Herbert Hoover.
The whole story is good. It strikes
us that Hoover is really better a3 a
writer than as an official. The ar
ticle in question is a fish story all
the way through and carries a deal
of humor even though statistics
creep in occasionally. Here are
quotations from parts of chapters
2 and 3 bearing on salmon hatch
ing.
"In addition to the3e paternalistic
and maternal edeavors on the part
of the Government, I am aware that
Mother Nature has herself been
busy also. Private enterprise, in
the shape of responsible mother fish,
is working upon the same problem;
it in probably doing more than the
paternal Government, l'or all I
know—private enterprise usually
does. One thing we do know: it
takes a host of flngerlings to pro
vide for the survival of a single
fish of blessed memory. At a pat..
ticuiar control station over Alaska
salmon it is estimated that 1,6GS,.
750,000 eggs and fry were launch
ed into life and 3,740,00 adult fish
came back—so that the loss was
99.77 per cent. Or, in other word’s,
it took 450 fry to make a fish. At
this rate the annual one billion, one
hundred million fry and flngerlings
jfrom the whole battery of hatch j
jeri^g would produce one third of a |
|-fish per fisherman per annum.
1 may say parenthetically that 1!
introduce these statistics of -birth
registration and infant mortality
among fish because it will relieve
your minds of anxiety as to accur
acy. But if any one feel3 that
these figures may be wrong, he has
my permission to divide or mul
tiply them by any factor based upon
his own experience with the time
element in bites, the size of fish,
or the special incantations.
In any event one billion, one
hundred million bureaucratic
mothered fry from our combined
government hatcheries meant onl>
2.2 fry for each fish in the modest
minimum national ideal 1 have in
sisted upon. And if anybody thinks
that it takes only 2.2 fry to make
a fish he is mightily mistaken. [ j
conclude, statistically, from my own ;
experience of the time between bites,
that the Alaskan figure of mortality
should be corrected from 9 9.77 per
cent to 99.99 per cent.
It is a solemn fact that only some
microscopic percentage of those fry
or fingerlings, whether synthetic or
natural, ever live to that state of
grandeur which will serve as in
spiration to polish the tackle or
ensure the approach to the battle in
renewed hope with each on-coming
season. And we lose ground every
year, sector by sector, as the high
ways include more fishing holes in
the motor routes. We must eith
er multiply the output of our hat
cheries by some fearful number or
find some other way out.”
“Some four years ago I expressed
to Commissioner O’Malley, when,in-l
ducting him to the headship of the
Bureau of Fisheries, my complete
skepticism in regard to the effec
tiveness of our synthetic incubation
and its statistical relations to the
realistic life of a fish. My general
thesis was that those infants did
not have a dog’s chance to gain that
maturity which was required by
public policy. He and his able a3
sistant, Mr. Leach, thereupon start
3d experiments to see if we could
not apply mas3-production methods
in the nursing of infant game fish to
an age when they could survive
traffic accidents or do battle with
cannibals or enter the cannibal
ranks themselves—in any event hope
to survive. It was my aspiration
that, if these adolescent youths
could not win in open combat, at
least some of them, reared to three
inche3 long, might make a full
meal for a cannibal in the place of
200 fry fresh out of the eggs, and
then we should save 199 or so.
These experiments were seriously
successful. And the same author
ities, Messrs O’Malley and Leach,
are convinced by thi3 means we
have improved the fighting chance
of these .children of fish up to about
a fifty-fifty go, and thereby our one
billion, one hundred million govern
mental fingerlings might serve as
a base to produce the national ideal
of five hundred million big ones.”
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