THE
Alaska Fisherman
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VOL.. 5 NO. 6
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The NextStep in Conservation
A very well informed canneryman lold me (lie oili
er day (hat he expected as the very next move in the
interest of so-called conservation by Washington, D
C., that all commercial fishing in southeastern Alaska
would be prohibited for three or four years.
This would be disastrous!
And yet in my own judgment, that is inevitable
considering the folly that lias attended (lie manage
ment. of Alaskan fisheries by Herbert Hoover and Hen
ry <j Malley.
Tn talking with Hon. Charles Benjamin he said t
significant thing: “That seems to he the only wa.>
the Bureaus have of conservation—close down every
thing. They don’t seem to know that the natural re
sources are going until they are gone. Then they
want to shut down everything—fish, mink, beaver, mar
tin.” i
The Constitution of the United States seems to
have done well everywhere it has been tried. Why not
try it in Alaska by giving us a government “By and
\i;h the consent of thy governed.”
WILLIAM L. PAUL
Representative from First Division.