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% rapi# .‘ developing high
(he North Pacific
Ocean Wd/ *discussed in detail by
tWAfaska fisheries Board at their
fall meeting. The following Reso
lution regarding this fishery was
unanimously; adopted.
BE IT RESOLVED BY THE AL
ASKA FISHERIES BOARD OF
THE TERRITORY OF ALASKA:
WHEREAS, all five species of
Pacific salmon indigenous to Alas
ka, are susceptible to a high seas
fishery; and
WHEREAS, the Japanese have
had good success in the high seas
fishery, having taken 50,503,069
*almon off the Aleutian Islands
area and 13,537,176 salmon off the
Okhotsk area during 1955; and
WHEREAS, the high seas fish
. cry nrfaich took 12,163,949 red Sal
mon $?f the Aleutian Islands area
during 1955 may already have been
reflected in the miserably poor
•salmon- catch and escapement in
the Bristol Bay watershed this
season, and
WHEREAS* exploratory fishing
•n the high seas off the coast of
Alaska during 1955 by the Fish
and Wildlife Service vessel John
N. Cobb has demonstrated that a
commercial off-shore fishery for
salmon can be established; and
WHEREAS, continued and ex
panded exploitation of salmon on
the high seas by American, Canadi
an and Japenese fishermen, with
out positive knowledge as to de
gree, time or location of interming
ling, will undoubtedly result in the
decimation and possible destruc
tion of the commercial salmon
stocfcsof Alaska; and
WHEREAS, the location and
numbers of salmon of Alaskan and
Asian origin intermingling on . the
high seas has not been determined;
and
WHEREAS, the 175th meridian
for Japanese salmon fisheries ab
stention to Eastward is, at best, an
arbitrary line; salmon of Alaskan
origin may well utilize the high
seas as feeding grounds west of
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:eql cw^e hig6 seds- a^l im
mature feeding fish,* thus have ndt
reached the size where they pro
vide the greatest economic return;
and ,
^WHEREAS, the Alaska salmon
fisheries has been fully utilized,
conserved, regulated, and scien
tifically investigated for more than
four decades; and
WHEREAS, the Alaska salmon
fisheries has reached an all time
low during the past five years; and
WHEREAS, Alaska’s salmon
fisheries have been rgulated to ob
tain the optimum escapement of
salmon in parent streams, by at
tempting to confine the commer
cial fisheries to localized areas
where salmon are caught after
segregation has occurred; and
WHEREAS, a high seas fishery
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without knowledge of theorrgmof
tKe11 salmon stocKf'haJVesi^' pV$r
cludp/ tftg. successful, m^iag^!|netrt
of the stream! in Alaska wt maxi
mum sustained yield basis,
NOW, THEREFORE, be it re
solved by the Alaska Fisheries
Board, the official representative
of the commercial fishermen of Al
aska, that the high seas fishery
for salmon, except by trolling, in
the North Pacific be prohibited
until at least such time as research
can determine, among other things,
the degree, location and time of in
termingling between salmon stocks
of Alaska and Asia, thereby insur
ing that management principles
can be intelligently applied to give
the maximum sustained yield of
salmon.
It is further resolved that a high
seas fishery for salmon must be
prohibited to insure that the com
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mercial salmon fishery of Alaska
be preserved; the Territory cannot
afford to lesethi$, their most valu
able single resource, whose har
vest affects every single resident
of the Territory of Alaska.
BIDS INVITED AT
KING SALMON AIRPORT
The Alaska District Corps of
Engineers is inviting contractors
to bid on further defense construc
tion for the U. S. Air Force at
King Salmon Airport which is lo
cated on the northwest side of the,
Alaska Peninsula near Naknek.
“The over-all construction will
run well over $1,000,000,” Col. Carl
Y. Farrell, Alaska District Engi
neer, estimated. “Much of the work
is to be completed during the 1956
construction season. Some will run
into 1957.”
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