FISHERIES RILL UlUiED POUCJHT
IN HOT DERATE
Fvorett Rotary Hoars Measure
Praised, Damned by Floyd Hat
field And Morris, Parker
Floyd Hatfield of Whidby Island,
:ow located at Bremerton, as head
vf flie Fish Conservation League, and
.1. 0. Morris of the Everett Packing
Company battled in debate before
Everett Rotary Club recently, the
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former speaking in favor of Initia
tive No. 55, and the latter againsi.
The League is sponsoring the initia
tiT,e.
Hatfield declared that its purpose
is to save the lishing industries. He
gave figures which he asserted prov
ed there has been a steady decline
in the salmon fisheries in this state,
and said if a remedy be not reach
ed by passage of the proposed inea.
ure, before another movement could
be made to save the industry, r
would be extinct.
WOULD DAN THAI'S
i e explained that the measure
proposes to do away- with purs,
seines and traps on Puget Sound,
pe’mitting lisli to be taken by gnl
nets and trolling, tie asserted tied
the contention that the law wouht
drive the state’s lishing indust r\
into Canada is unfounded. He main
'aineo that in the past Canada has
endeavored to cooperate with this
country in conserving fisheries, hut
* hat the fishing industry had blocke i
.-ueh attempts. With such an enact
meat, he maintained Canada would
he willing to provide protection o»
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its side of the line.
( on troll Effective
IReplying, Morris pointed out that
the ii.shiag industry provides the
money which operates the hatch
eries that propogate salmon, and
hat without such industry there
would be no money available to fos
ter the salmon. He told of experl
ences on the Columbia River where
«<>ULrol of fishing is resulting in a
high average puck. He declared
tlmt Canada and Washington are
cooperating ia lisheries regulations,
and asserted that present fishing
.net hods on Puget Sound such a*
t ni l ailment of the open season, are
increasing the salmon run.
; iie big losses he laid to the in
discriminate fishing that was en
couraged during war time, and to
t ie. 'act that a number of years age
the Sockeye salmon were not able
to reach their spawning beds In th<
i pper Fraser, because the rivet
was blocked by a railway ronstt u»
;ion blast.—Seattle P. I.
SI 'AIi liOI'XTV IX CANADA
Fraser Fishermen W ar * )q Seals
I)( si ruction ol' spring salmon by
hair seals is becoming greater ever.\
year on the Fraser River and threat
ers to exterminate that species o;
lisli. The amount of sain.on, caugh’
tliis scar is considerable less than
the I of last year, and that hair seal
are increasing.
Bounty W ill Font bill©
ho induce fishermen t Wll seals,
the soalbounty will be i aid as t:
the cast. This bounty b for $ 3Tb
an. animal . The seal's uOSe mm
be produced as evidence afore it i •
paid.
Alaska Bount ;
Alaska pays $ 2.00 fo- each se< .
hi,led east of Cook Lnlel.