GRIGSBY BILL
FOR CONTROL
OF FISHERIES
Convinced that the intensive fish
ing of the last few years has depleted
the salmon fisheries of Alaska to a
point approaching extinction, Delegate
George B. Grigsby is framing a bill
to be introduced early at the next ses
sion which may prohibit fishing, or at
least greatly restrict it. With that
end in view he is gathering data and
consulting with people of the cannery
business.
The production of the Alaska can
neries fell off by nearly one-third last
year, notwithstanding an enormous in
crease in the number of traps in op
eration, and cannerymen are alive to
the danger that if unrestricted fishing
is allowed to continue it will be but
a short time until the industry is de
stroyed.
Delegate Grigsby is firmly of the
opinion that the fisheries of Alaska
should be administered by the people
of Alaska, instead of by officials from
Washington. He believes that the
Alaskans, being closer to the scene of
operations, are in much better posi
tion to judge of the conditions and to
frame laws for the protection of the
industry. He believes also that all
of the taxes from the fisheries should
go towards the cost of carrying on
the government of Alaska, instead of
part of it going to the federal govern
ment, as at present. The bill which
he will introduce early in the next
session doubtless will be framed to
bring about results along these lines.
Just what plan will be devised to
restrict or prohibit fishing has not
vet been determined. One of the
plans suggested by the Northern can
nerymen, which seems most likely to
be incorporated into the proposed law,
provides for the division of the Alaska
coast line into three or five districts,
in one or more of which fishing for
salmon would be prohibited each year.
This plan would not cut off salmon
fishing altogether, but it would give
the depleted shoals a chance to build
themselves up to their former num
bers. A law of this kind would be
easy of enforcement, for canneries in
the closed district would not be al
lowed to open that year, and there
would be little or no incentive for the
fishermen to take salmon from those
waters. They would have no place
fo dispose of their catch.
The present plan of closing the
traps on Sunday is not at all satis
factory. There are not enough game
wardens lo watch them, and tne nne
imposed is so slight that it pays a
canneryman to violate the law. A
day’s catch during the running season
is worth a great deal more than the
amount of the fine.
It w'as at first proposed to divide
the coast line into four districts and
close one to fishing each year. This
plan was abandoned as impracticable.
The salmon after being spawned goes
to sea for four years and then returns
to its native locality. If the coast line
is divided into four districts and each
district is closed once every four years
it would work out that after the fifth
year the district would be closed on
the year when the big run would oc
cur as the result of the closing four
years previously. The coast line
therefore must be divided into an
odd number of units.
A bill relating to the fisheries of
Alaska has been introduced by Con
gressman Alexander of Missouri, but
j there is no expectation that it will
pass at this session of congress. It
probably will be withdrawn in favor
of the Grigsby bill at the next ses
sion.—J. J. Underwood in Seattle
Times.
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