NEGOTIATIONS, "Ctmtintied t
represented the Department of the Inter
ior and Seton Thompson and J"#L#Kask re-'
presented the Fish and Y/lldlife Service#
After some two hours of arguments pro
and oon, the meeting was adjourned#
I then oontaoted Harry Lundeberg and
John Hawk by long distance phone, and
discussed the power pressure being ap
plied, so Harry nundeberg, becratery
Treasurer of the Sailor1s Union of the
Pacific, contacted by phone and wire Sezw
ators Taft and $ncwland* George Meany,
President of A«F* of L#, eto# te ask su]>
port for an operation for Numhagak, as
not one proposal was made for relief,
work or anything to take care of the Nush
closure order and very evidently wa®
a straight attempt of union butrting*
I contacted Senator Taft and George
Meany who wrote a lengthly letter to tho
Secretary of the Interior on the gross
injustice being legislated on the people
of NUEhagak#
On April 3&th, Delegate Bartlett had
assurances from Asst# SeoTy* Lewis that .
the amendment order would be signed the
next morning# I took off from Vfa shingtorT
0.3* in the early morning of Vpy 1st for
Seattle#
In Denver, Colorado, at 1 p-.m#, a wire
was paged by V/estern Union from Delegate
Bartlett* In substance it read:
”An amendment order to the closure
of the Xushagak River has been signed at
1 p#m, Washington, D.C. time) permitted
forty-eight hours per week fishing, by
loth types of gear, i*e», from Monday
g a<mj to Tuesday 6a «m#. and from Friday
6 a.m* to Saturday 6 a*n* Jun* 26th to?
July 25th for red salmon fishing* Addition
ally, Togiak District open 04 hours per
week for sot netting only# with no re—
strictions or prohibitions on personal
use fishing there* Area is all water#
North from Right H and Point to Tongues
Point*"
This opens Togiak now for commercial
fishing# with the closed days allowing
personal use fishing*
he are working on two more points now
that need revising and clarifying; namely#
personal use fishing rights for Nuehagak#
Naknek# Kvichak, Egegik and Ugeshik being
the first objective* Secondly# the mat
tor of predator control in the form of
trout for winter commercial fishing# and
November 1st to April 3tth was suggested
as the best time for fresh water fishing
and the logical time to be able to freese
or keep fish in good condition*
In a letter from Assistant Secretary
kewis# dated May 7th# in which an excerpt
quotes ”T1h6 Department has a feeling that
it might' bb posaible to specify certain
lakes and streams in the Bristol Bay
drainage that could be opened without,
harm to the resource for the commercial
fishing of trout with gillnets of certain?
size during n limited season in the win
ter when salmon would not be taken* Ttfc
is the plan to obtain information on thia
subject during the coming season as a
part of the trout predation study 4n that
area*” (End quote)
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