bill inforced on the traps as
well as the seines; that is (no
ponding of fish allowed over
the closed period. The bureau
of fisheries granted trapowners
36 hours in which to clear
their pots and spillers; seiners
should have the same previlege.
In reality a trap has only a
twelve hour closed period while
a seiner has forty-eight hours.
The law should strictly stip
ulate all traps as well as
seines to ;be empty at the be
ginning of each closing period
and traps must be brailed every
twenty-four hours.
In place of stream wardens
there should be an inspector at
every cannery to see that no
cannery puts up any bad fish
as is their habit at present. An
other habit of the larger oper
ators especially during the
pink salmon run to send out
seiners (when traps slacken
their catching powers) to
scrape the creeks of any fish
that might be there and when
a howl comes they blame the
fishermen; with an inspector
at the cannery he will discour
age any attempts of canning
putrid fish. This will force
the operators to except only
fresh fish and in turn the fish
ermen will naturally be more
careful and take pains in hav
ing only fresh fish on hand.
There are three traps in
Prince William Sound that
should positively be closed
from fishing entirely as they
will be the direct cause of the
depletion of the pink salmon
that in time will come. These
traps are directly in front of
spawning streams; not only
that, two of the traps are not
a lawful distance from these
streams. These places have
been pointed out to the deputy
commissioner and still he lets
them fish.
Herring regulations to be
the same and if any thing they
should be a certain percentage
of one and three quarter inch
mesh for trolling bait, the larg
er fish being too big for this
purposes.
Respectfully submitted
FISHERMEN’S UNION
Secretary.
LABOR AND PROHIBITION
Listen to what the late War
ren S. Stone, Grand Chief of
the Brotherhood of Locomo
tive Engineers, has to say n
the subject;
“There are some people who
labor under the delusion that
they are going to have the
prohibition law modified or
abolished. Someone should
wake them from their Rip Van
Winkle sleep. I wish they
could go with me for thirty
days as I travel over this
broad land and see the homes
being erected everywhere, note
the accounts being opened in
savings banks, see the families
out together in parks, recrea
tion and community centers,
children well-fed, with shoes to
wear, and warm clothing, going
to school; see prosperity, hap
piness and sunshine where for
merly there were only squalor
and misery. All this is a RE
SULT of prohibition. We are
not going back to the old con
dition of things with tkeir
misery, want and poverty—
never again.
“Prohibition Has Come to
Stayr
Dr. Hugh H. Smith, former
ly U. S. Fish Commissioner of
the United States, who has re
cently finished a survey of the
fisheries of Siam, has receiv
ed an appointment as Director
of the Bureau of Fisheries of
Siam. t*j
CARBON MONOXID
The death of a fine young
man of Juneau recently of
“Gas poisoning” makes it im
portant for everyone who uses
a gasboat to read this article
(taken from the Literary Di
gest;. ; |j ?, * '
The deadly carbon monixid
is a product of incomplete
combustion of gasoline and is
on* of t$ie greatest dangers to
health and life.
It kills before you notice it.
You can neither see nor smell
it.
A small quantity breathed
into the lungs may cause im
mediate death. Every on1*
should understand what th‘
gas is and how it works.
“All gasoline engines, when
running, generates carbon-mon
oxid gas; burning gas stoves
and heaters do also, if com
bustion is incomplete.
“Actual tests have proved
that the exhaust fumes from
a running motor will render
deadly the air of a small clos
ed garage within THREE
MINUTES.
“A person may be literally
immersed in the gas and nev
er suspect it until he begins
to grow dizzy or becomes par
alyzed. The next stage is un
consciousness; the next death.”
Keep A Free Circulation cf
Air in Your Engine Room.
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