BILL FOR PROTECTION OF FISH
The protection and preservation of
the salmon fisheries of Alaska is ad
vocated by the United States bureau
of fisheries, the Alaska fisheries com
mission and the salmon packers’ as
sociation. As an outgrowth of the
public hearings held in Seattle Nov.
20 and 26, under the auspices of the
bureau of fisheries, a committee was
named, representing the various in
terests involved, to undertake the im
portant task of drafting a bill with
object in view. This committee
was composed of Professor John N.
Cobb of the fisheries department of
the University of Washington, chair
man; Professor Gilbert and Henry
O’Malley, representing the United
States bureau of fisheries; Messrs. J.
R. Beegle and Garfield, representing
the Alaska fisheries board, and Messrs.
Frank Warren of the Warren Packing
Company; U. R. Branch of the Libby,
McNeill & Libby interests, and Carl
Sutter of the Fidalgo Island Packing
Company, representing the salmon
packers’ association.
After six weeks of patient and pains
taking endeavor this committee draft
ed a bill which has been sent to the
national congress for passage or re
jection, as the case may be.
Uue to the prime importance of this
^matter, the bill as finally adopted by
the committee is published in part,
the most important features being
printed in ^nto, as follows:
Section 1. For a commission con
sisting of five members, to be appoint
ed by the secretary of commerce, two
of which shall be upon nomination by
the governor and two must be resi
■dents or the territory ana engagea in
the commercial fisheries. Compensa
tion of commission $15 per diam when
actually employed.
Sec. 2. Headquarters of the com
mission shall be in Juneau, Alaska,
but meetings may be held elsewhere.
Authorizes the election of a secre
tary, who may be a member of the
commission.
Sec. 3. Employment of one chief
warden and one superintendent of
hatcheries, and such other employes
as may be necessary.
Sec. 4. Authorizes the commission
to disburse money from the Alaska
fisheries fund for all purposes. Also
♦ covers the acquisition of property by
condemnation proceedings or pur
chase.
Sec. 5. Granting the commission
authority to enforce the provisions of
the act and all regulations relating
to the fisheries which may be promul
gated by it. Regulations shall be sub
ject to appeal to the secretary of com
merce. who shall have the power to
annul same.
Sec. 6. Grants power to the of
ficers and employes of the commis
sion. to make arrests without war
rants in cases of violations and rights
nouf-a ,r»f fyin Qprvinft 1 o n 1 nrop
^sses connected with the fisheries.
Sec. 7. The commission granted
power to set aside any waters in con
nection with the conservation of the
industry after a public hearing upon
the subject.
Sec. 8. The seizure of fishing ap
pliances and products taken in viola
tion of law and the disposition thereof
after adjudication by the district court
•o^Alaska.
*Sec. 9. Commission or its employes
have authority to inspect all plants
and appliances used in the fisheries.
Sec. 10. Commission has arbitrary
authority to fish and determine the
mouth of a stream or other waters,
and indicate the same by suitable per
manent markers. Destruction of these
markers unlawful and penalty pro
vided.
Sec. 11. Commission authorized and
to determine what waters of the ter
ritory are salmon-spawning streams
within the meaning of the act.
Sec. 12. Commission authorized to
exterminate predatory fish, birds and
mammals, except fur seals and sea
otter, when necessary for the conserva
tion of the fisheries.
Sec. 13. Annual report of the com
mission to the governor and his sec
^ tretary of commerce.
Sec. 14. Unlawful for any person
4m engage in canning, curing, preserv
ing packing or otherwise dealing in
food fish, or in the manufacture of the
products therefor, without obtaining
a license. Also unlawful for any per
son to engage in fishing without a
license. Licenses to be issued by the
commission. Licenses not necessary
for taking fish for personal, domestic
or family use, and not for sale or bar
ter. Licenses are valid anywhere
within the territory.
Sec. 15. Schedule of the license fees
for canneries, fish appliances and ves
sels.
Sec. 18. Covers license fees for j
catching fish at fixed rate per thou-,
sand and fresh and cured salmon and j
other fishery products, together with
fertilizers and oils.
Sec. 17. As to how the license fees
and taxes are collected, which are;
practically the same as uncVer the j
present law.
Sec. 18. Creates the Alaska fisher
ies fund, under the jurisdiction of the
territorial treasurer.
Sec. 19. Disposes of the moneys
derived from license fees and taxes
of all kinds and distributes the funds
in the following maanner: First, those
moneys collected within the limits of
incorporated cities or towns to be
paid to the treasurer of such city or
town for school and municipal pur
poses; second, three-fifths of the re
mainder to be covered into the Alaska
fisheries fund; third, all the balance
to be covered into the ‘general fund of
the territory.
Sec. 20. Making an approval of
vouchers covering expenditures. All
moneys received and expended to be
annually reported to the governor and
secretary of commerce.
Sec. 21. Form and renewal of
licenses. All licenses to expire on the
31st day of December of the year for
which issued.
Sec. 22, Allows for transfer or as
signment of licenses ard fee of $1 for
recording same.
Sec. 23. Recognizing prior rights
and preventing the issuance of two
licenses covering the same location.
Sec. 24. Members of the commission
and its employes to administer the
necessary oaths in the transaction of
official business.
Sec. 25. How trap or other net and
drag seine locations may be made,
surveying and mapping same, record
ing locations and maps with the com
mission giving locator exclusive right
to hold and operate such location, and
to mortgage, sell and transfer the
same. Recognizes all locations made
and used during the year 1919 in ac
cordance with existing laws except
the same occupied by any appliances
operated within one thousand yards
outside the mouth of any salmon
spawning stream. No drag seine loca
tion to occupy greater length of shore
line than twice the length of the same
covered by the license therefor.
Sec. 26. Fixes the limits on gear
as follows: No fish trap shall exceed
2,400 feet in length over all nor be
constructed and operated in more than
; 100 feet depth of water at the outer
‘ end at mean high tide except that
they may be located in a depth of
water greater than 100 feet provided
j they shall not extend out from the
| shore a greater distance than 1,000
! feet over all at mean high tide. There
| shall be an endwise passageway of
j at least 600 feet and a lateral passage
i way of at least 2,500 feet between all
| traps, and no appliance shall be con
! strueted or operated within 2,500 feet
laterally or 600 feet endwise of any
other. The distance regulations here
* prescribed do not affect any location
legal under Section 32 of the act. The
lead may be extended to high water
mark on tide lands of the United
States or other tide lands with the con
sent of the owner. Wings or jiggers
of a trap may not be of greater length
than 300 feet over all, nor shall the
outer end approach within 100 feet
of the lead. Not more than one wing
or jigger shall be attached to each
side of the heart. Failure of licensee
to operate any trap after two years
shall constitute abandonment of the
location and forfeiture of license.
Commission has the right to cancel
license for any appliance and location
when deemed an ineffective device for
catching fish. Any set or stake net
location not used for any year shall
constitute abandonment.
Sec. 27. Manner for closing traps
during closed season shall be by haul
ing the tunnel to one side against en
trance of the pot or by an apron placed
against entrance to the tunnel, which
apron shall extend from above the sur
face of the water to the bottom of the
pot and be securely connected to the
piling on either side of the pot, and
I in addition an opening of twenty-five
feet wide shall be in the webbing on
either side of the heart of such trap
next to the pot, leaving a passageway
not less than six feet in width at ex
treme low tide. Where the water is
less than sixty feet in depth the shove
down shall extend to the bottom.
Sec. 28. Stake nets shall be con-*
strueted by stakes driven in substan
tially a straight line, and not in the
for of a trap. They shall not ex
ceed 1,800 feet in length, and free
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