60-Year-Old Alaskan Discovers Discarded Salmon
Skins Can Be Made Into Effective Salmon Bait
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Biologist Detective
Traces of
Salmon by Scales
A salmon can be traced as
easily by its scale as a man by
his thumb print, Biologist Robert
Parker, of the Alaska Department
of Fisheries, said recently.
Dui'ing the 1952 season scales
were used for the first time as a
means of identification in the tag
ging operations which estimate
salmon population. Fifteen of the
tagged fish recovered by the gill
net fishery were identified by the
uniqueness of scale formation.
Because of the loss of tags dur
v ing the 1951 tagging experiments,
biologists tagging at Point Bishop
in the spring of 1952 took a scale
sample and cut the adipose fin
from every fish tagged. Fifteen
of the 57 recoveries made by Ed.
Huizer in the gill net fishery
showed a clean-cut adipose fin
but no tag. A scale sample was
taken from each of -the 15 fish,
and the samples were successful
ly matched with samples earlier
taken at Point Bishop.
Loss of tags may be attributed
to several factors: the entangle
ment of the salmon in the gill
nets, the failure of the fishermen
to turn in tags, or structural fail
ure of the tag.
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Wild Rose Brownies
The Wild Rose Troop of Brown
ies met in the school annex last
Wednesday. Leaders Mary Jean
Longley and Cherje Galvin con
ducted a short business meeting.
Gail Melver read the minutes
of the last meeting as Sue Miller
was absent and her own treas
urer’s report. The troop has $6.20
in its treasury after buying mat
1, erials for the chairs the members
are making.
A vote was taken to make
Christmas gifts at the next meet
ing. Then members worked on
chairs and composed a “manners
song” to the tune of “Jingle Bells”
and a poem using the letters in
Christmas.
Deon Alexander, Scribe
By JIM HUTCHISON
SEATTLE, (JP) — Jack Allman
was a long-time Alaskan Jack-of
all-callings who had settled down
as the operator of a sportsmen’s
lodge on Excursion Inlet.
For years he had been aware of
the waste materials pouring of
the northern territory’s canneries
without thinking much about it.
Now, at 60, in the quiet isola
tion of his Alaska beach he had
the time and inclination to give
it some thought.
Why, in an age of by-product
conversions, he asked, can’t some
use be found for the stuff? Why,
for instance, can’t the thousands
of salmon skins spewed out of
each cannery be turned into some
useful purpose?
The result is a new salmon lure,
dressed neatly in salmon skin and
designed to make king salmon
think a crippled herring is limp
ing past with a hook in its tail.
Allman, an old-time free lance
writer, gave up his lodge because
of ill health and a series of major
operations, but his new-found
brainchild is starting him out
again with a young man’s fancy.
His new gimmick is made by
stretching the ; salmon skin over
a stiff wire mesh. The mesh can
be bent as the angler desides, to
get the water action he wants
from the upholstered lure.
In the first tests, he said, Alas
kan salmon seemed to love it
like a hobbling herring.
“I went out on a fishing boat
that had 14 lines out,” he related,
with a fisherman’s usual modesty,
“and I put out four with my new
gadget; My four lines, against the
fisherman’s 14, made half the
catch!”
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