Trolling Season
Not to Close
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Friend of Alaska, Henry O’
Malley the Czar who sees to it
that Alaskans do not benefit by
his regulation of the fisheries,
recently got chicken hearted
endangering his own life
through enlargement of the
heart. He has declared that the
troll close season which runs
for 30 days beginning about the
20th of this month is not to be
Storms and poor runs of salmon
and poor earnings—mostly the
buyers have not gotten their
share of the swag—is the reason
set forth for setting aside the
closure.
The price on the Columbia
River for king salmon is now
down to 21/2 cents on the river,
Alaska fishermen should be re
ceiving y2 cent per pound for
their fish. Report has not come
in indicating what prices are be
ing paid—but with the price oi
oil raised one cent by federal
tax and two cents a gallon tax
raised by the oil companies to
pay their tax to the government,
the fishermen find it no easy
matter to buy enough oil to
operate—they don’t care to buy
the food and trolling supplies—
they can get along without that
so long as they buy the oil to
keep the poor oil companies
from starving.
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COLUMBIA FISHERMEN
STRIKE
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A group of Astoria, Ore., fish
ermen went on strike the fore
part of the month. The action
was due to the drop in salmon
prices from 5 to 3 cents per
pound. Not since 1897 has the
price of salmon been so low. Re
ports indicate that prices would
be cut even lower.
NEW SALMON PACK TO
STIMULATE INDUSTRY
That the salmon industry in
the northwest will be stimulated
and the world-wide consumption
of canned salmon increased was
forecast with the announce
ment by Guy P. Halferty and
company, one of the oldest hous
es in the salmon trade, of a new
method of packing salmon,
skinless and boneless. The new
pack will be especially prepared
for salads and will be put up in
half pound and pound tins of
diced salmon, from the choicest
part of the fish, with skin and
bone removed.
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Fishing Season
Is Extended
Commissioner O’Malley wired
Washington on the 6th re
questing that the fishing season
in the eastern end of Icy Straits
and the northern end of Lynn
Canal be extended three days.
His observations of the runs are
such, he indicates, as make it
feasabl eto do so.
The first runs of salmon have
been a complete failure and the
run of salmon now entering is
the first of the late run of salm
on.
It is believed that O’Malley
will give further extension to
other districts “to permit the
fishermen to make a few dol
lars.”
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Forty-five is the age of discre
tion. By the time a man reaches
forty-five he appreciates the
futility of crime.—Lewis E. Lawes
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Mahatma Gandhi, says an old
timer, used to be a lawyer. Well,
the way he dresses now, he looks
like a client who had just paid a
lawyer.
Market Fails
Sound Fisheries
Crews of seventy Tacoma and
Gig Harbor purse seine boats are
facing a crisis at Neah Bay as a
result of the low price of fish
and the light run. In addition,
•there are about fifty other purse
seine crews and the crews of
nearly 200 trollers facing diffi
culties. Only two canneries on
Puget Sound are buying fish at
the bay and fishermen not con
nected with those two plants are
without a market for their fish,
according to the fishermen.
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SALMON CANNERIES MAY
NOT OPERATE NEXT YEAR
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Reports coming via Seward
from the Westward section are
that it is very probable that the
large cannery corporations will
rot operate next year. Instruc
tions have been sent to the sup
erintendents to store all mach
inery and equipment so that
they will not have to be molest
ed for two or three years.
The price of salmon and mar
ket conditions no doubt has
much to do with the orders.
Chums are quoted on the mar
kets at 65 cents the dozen;
Pinks, 75 cents; Reds, $1.25 per
dozen. It is said that it costs the
Libby, McNeill & Libby Co., a
flat $6 per case to deliever salm
on to Seattle. At current prices
they are compelled to take a
less.
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Give if thou canst an aim, if
not, afford instead of that sweet
and gentle word.—Herrick.
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In a game of cards a good deal
depends on good playing; and
jet good playing depends on a
good deal j