CORDOVA MON
OF FISHERMEN
SEND PETITION
RECOMMENDATIONS TO BUREAU
OF FISHERIES REGARDING
LATE REGULATIONS
SEAL ENEMY OF RED SALMON
Wants Fish Commission Stripped of
Authority to Confiscate Boat
and Fishing Gear
The Fishermen'^ Union of Cordova
recently sent to the Washington office
of the Bureau of Fisheries the follow
ing recommendations:
“We would recommend that condi
tions with a few changes be brought
back to the spring of 1924. That the
boats be limited to 350 fathoms of net.
That stake nets be allowed. That
the fishermen be kept as before 500
yards outside the mouths of sloughs,
but otherwise at the grass banks set
nets be permitted there 1800 feet apart
in all directions. That a zone be set
inside each bar to be reserved for
drifting only. This zone to commence
at the mouth of the bar in its full
width and running in the general di
rection of the tide and across the
tide, in towards the grass banks, the
same to be measured to its full extent
and marked by the fish commission
with red buoys before the commence
ment of the fishing season.
That the fish commission be stripped
of its authority to confiscate boat and
gear at first offense.
That the red salmon season be al
lowed to open the first of May of each
year in order to give the fishermen
time to get located and get their
stakes out as the first and only runs
have been known to occur as early as
the 8th of May and the best run of
fish in the spring of 1925 from all re
ports was over before the season
opened. That the season be extended
right through until the silver salmon
season starts because the run of fish
in the Copper River delta is running
right through until the time the sil
ver salmon run starts.
That a law be enacted to limit a
boat to stake and hold one location
only. It has been the practice of can
neries to send out a couple of men to
stake and hold fishing locations for
the whole cannery and to get out in
the middle of the winter in order to
secure the best locations. Others must
follow suit or get left behind. This
works a hardship on everybody and
by opening the season not later and
not before the first of May it gives
the fishermen sufficient time to locate
and get ready and gives everybody an
equal show.
That no rules shall be changed aft
er the opening of the season either
on the Copper River delta or Prince
William Sound.
Regard Enemies of Salmon
The seal is the worst and principal
enemy of the red salmon. The seal
is increasing so rapidly that in a few'
years if left alone it wTill make fishing
impossible. During the last season
it is a very conservative estimate to
say that the seal took ten fish to each
fish taken by the fishermen. And this,
taking into consideration only the
seals that were around the principal
fishing places, not counting for the
multitudes scattered all over the flats
in the eddies of sloughs. They are
to be found from outside the breakers
and in every nook and corner of the
river and have been observed up as
far as Chitina. Up the slough in the
lower part of the river the receding
tides expose the mud flats in places
where are several pot holes, the
fish will be piling down the river, the
seals wfill be seen by the thousand
grabbing a fish and tearing it to pieces
or take it in its mouth and throwing
its head to one side and half the fish
can be seen playing in the air, the
other half spit out and the seal going
for the next fish. This is going on
night and day. It is not so much wrhat
they actually eat, as the thousands
they destroy seemingsly for pleasure
Some of the bars and breeding grounds
are literally alive with seals.
By comparing time and amount 01
nets actually standing to fish it has
been ascertained by several and bj
the fish passing through the canyon
that we had at least an average gooc
run of fish last summer, yet no fisl
to speak of were caught on the bars
the reasoon for this being that th<
bars were overcrowded wfith nets dm
to the fact that it is the only plac<
‘A UNITED STATES OF
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KEYSTONE VIEW CO, NEW '
Louis Loucheur, leader of the Rad
cal Left of the Chamber of Deputies
who claims that tariff laws, etc., should
be abolished in Europe, and treaties
made whereby all the industries thru
out Europe would amalgamate the
same as in the United States, in order
to flourish in the future. Business be
tween Paris and Berlin should be as
easy, and as renumerative as that be
tween New York and Chicago, but tar
iff laws prevent this. Abolishing cus
toms frontiers would make for a Unit
ed States of Europe. It is rumored
that Loucheur is to succeed Joseph
Caillaux as Finance Minister, as the
latter is expected to resign.
where it is at all practicable to drift,
j and here the seals were concentrated
picking the fish as fast as they
struck the nets.
We believe the vast majority of the
fish realizing the suicidal act of en
tering under these circumstances re
main outside until the tides get high
enough and then scattering out and
went in over the breakers, the break
ers being the natural protection for
the fish from the seal and here tho
fisherman, because of the snags and
! slow water and the fish being scatter
ed had very little chance of getting
any. Sharpshooters and dynamite has
been tried but with little or no re
slut. We have no means of extermin
ating them and we respectfully re
quest the government find ways and
| means for their extermination. Aero
: planes and bombs for instance might
| be the proper thing.
The next worst enemy of the red
; salmon is the trout which eat the
j eggs as the solmon spawns in the
j streams and lakes. The waters of
Eyak Lake and Mountain Slough are
literally alive with these trout.
The seagull is the principal enemy
of the humpback or* pink salmon, also
the red salmon. In almost any creek,
and in particular where there is a
flat with water enough to allow the
fish to stay up the sea gull will be
wading amongst the live fish and
picking out the eyes. In places hun
dreds of these blinded fish may be
seen at a time. Those fish do not
spawn. They will swim around for a
few days and die. At times they may
be seen laying by the thousands and
furthermore the seagulls are gobbling
up an immense lot of spawn. This
could be avoided by the bureau pro
viding some means of extermination.
BICEPS WATCH TO
COVER VACCINATION
SAN FRANCISCO, Nov. 24 (ff)—
The dimple has made the flapper knee
famous but the vaccination mark has
never done anything in the way of
beautifying the feminine arm. As a
result the censors have ordered it de
leted.
Surgeons, dermatologists, cosmeti
cians and other authorities have been
appealed to in vain for the ways and
means of removing the blemish the in
ventive jeweler has finally come to
the rescue. They say it has been dis
covered in the “biceps watch” which
has just made its appearance in San
Francisco. •
J. Hill, a McGrath mining man, left
Saturday on the Yukon, en route to
the States for the winter.
Bean’s Products, Urbach’s. tf
Handball mitts, all leather, spec
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All the latest sheet music, at The
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Fine Toilet Articles and perfumes at
The Alaska Shop. tf.
Brunswick phonographs and rec
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SOLID LEGS, SHARP
ELBOWS FOR GIRLS
PARIS, Nov. 24 (/P)—'"The girl of
today should have good legs, good
lungs to withstand the gasoline-laden
atmosphere of the cities, should know
how to use her hatpin and the sharp
point of her elbows and be endowed
with a saintly patience to cross the
streets during rush-hour traffic jams,”
said the daughter of Sarah Bernhart
today in discussing the modern girl.
A. Nylin, road contractor in the
Moose Pass district, where he has
been under a sub-contract from the
Bureau of Public Roads department,
arrived in Seward Saturday, depart
ing again yesterday for Anchorage.
He is returning in a few days.
John McMillan, interested in the
Days Harbor saw mill aft n- a day
spent in Seward on business mat
ters, departed yesterday on the gas
boat Chase, for the bay.
PORTRAIT PHOTOGRAPHER
TO LOCATE IN SEWARD
Guy F. Cameron, the well known
portrait photographer of Anchorage,
will arrive in Seward on Wednesday's
train and will remain in town several
weeks for the purpose of allowing cit
izens an opportunity of having por
traits taken for Christmas presents.
Mr. Cameron is a fine artist and will
be at Sjdvia’s studio.
John G. Brady, district forester in
charge of this region of the Chu
gach National Forest, who recently
returned from a trip to the States,
came over to Seward Saturday from
his Anchorage office.
The condition of Fred Martinides,
who was injured last week at the
Seward wharf wfaile assisting in un
loading a cargo of lumber, is improv
ing, Dr. Baughman announces.
J. A. Brathord, dredge man from
the McGrath region, departed for Se
attle on the Yukon.
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